Dr John Sullivan

Dr John Sullivan is an internationally known HR thought-leader from the Silicon Valley who specializes in providing bold and high business impact; strategic Talent Management solutions to large corporations.

High-Touch Tools For Remote Onboarding – Part 1

Remote onboarding

The focus of this article is to provide “a “toolkit” of” effective intuitive high-touch tools that should be used at the team level when every new worker must be onboarded remotely. However, it’s important to note that the remote onboarding tools listed here are especially effective for any employee that is working 100% remotely.

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Stop Creating Zombie Remote Workers – Use “High-Touch” Remote Onboarding

I call them zombie remote workers. During the first few months of working at home, these new hires will slowly wander (at least mentally) not knowing what’s expected and feeling completely isolated from their team. You can credit the creation of these zombie new-hires to the hastily put together remote onboarding process implemented after the work-at-home orders were issued.

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Remote Video Interviews – A Guide For Improving Their Accuracy

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Remote video interviews are suddenly quite popular, but few realize that they have serious flaws that negatively impact the decisions made after using them. And with many recruiters now working from home, it’s critical to immediately remedy these design flaws that hurt your quality of hire. This article is a quick guide to a dozen easy remote video interview (RVI) practices and tips that can result in a significant improvement in your results.

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Target Suddenly Available Talent During This Business Disruption

Let me be clear, I am advocating the aggressive recruiting of workers displaced during the current business turmoil. Now, of course, there’s no denying that through no fault of their own, a large number of people are currently having their work and family lives disrupted. Recruiters should realize that they have a unique opportunity to help out. They can offer top talent a better career opportunity.

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Looking for a Job Has Changed Forever — and Here’s Why

I predict that the recent turmoil surrounding our pandemic will strain the job search process to the point where existing search approaches will soon become ineffective. The job-loss damage is already becoming obvious — 25% of people making less than $50,000 report that they had been let go or had hours reduced as a result of the recent turmoil.

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[Podcast] Human Resources Challenges in a World with COVID-19

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6dS2AlIfUViLTZfADSgGcZ Dr. John Sullivan was interviewed by Marc Raco for Strategy Update: COVID-19 Business Playbook. If trying to keep the doors to a business open isn’t challenging enough, especially when you don’t know how long you have to do it for, diligent consideration of the productivity, safety, care, morale, and …

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[Webinar] Employer Branding Techniques for Engaging Candidates Online

Learn best practices and the most modern techniques for attracting and engaging potential applicants. If you’re struggling to get enough applicants for your open jobs, regardless of company size, you must move beyond simply posting open jobs. It’s time to realize that if your organization expects to succeed in attracting …

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Half of Top Performers Quit Last Year — and It’s Likely Happened to You

Perhaps the most alarming statistic of the year comes from recent research by The Predictive Index (TPI) revealing that “on average, 47% of high-performing employees left their company last year.” What could be worse news to your executives than learning that nearly half your firm’s high-performing employees quit?  The loss would be …

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