Have you ever wondered which HR subprograms routinely produce little evidence of bottom-line impact because they are what I call “under-managed?”
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Whiteboard Tests Can Improve Your Hiring Results in Many Jobs
As seen on ERE Media, January 22, 2018. Improve Candidate Assessment by Adding Problem-Focused Whiteboard Tests Let’s look at the data. The current state of hiring and candidate assessment is problematic because research shows that 46 percent of new hires fail in their first 18 months on the job. Because most firms …
Read More »Don’t Lower Your Cost Per Hire, Raise It (This Is Not a Typo)
As seen on ERE Media, January 15, 2018. Note: This “think piece” is designed to stimulate your thinking about the damage done by typical cost-cutting in recruiting Spend More Win More In my experience, recruiting has long overemphasized cost-cutting. And that focus has, unfortunately, reduced both our effectiveness and our …
Read More »Top 10 Tips for Hiring Differently Under Salary History Laws
As seen in ERE Media, January 8, 2018. Alert — New Salary History Expectations Require Changes in Your Hiring Process Typically there are a few reasons for recruiters or hiring managers to pay much attention to compensation laws. However, that disinterested approach must now change because of new salary history …
Read More »7 Revealing Numbers Guaranteed to Make You Rethink Talent Management
As seen on ERE Media, December 18, 2017. This “think piece” is designed to stimulate your thinking about the value of data Historically, a great deal of recruiting and talent management has been intuitive. And as a result, at most firms, recruiters and hiring managers plod on for years using …
Read More »2018 Headlines — the “War for AI Talent” and Other Top Recruiting Headlines
As seen on ERE Media, December 11, 2017. In my nearly four decades of involvement in recruiting, I have found no period in which change has been more rapid and impactful than during the last two years. I am forecasting that this high rate of change will continue and even …
Read More »Timing Is Everything — Initiate a December Recruiting Push When Competition Is Low
As seen in ERE Media, December 4, 2017. Timing is always critical in recruiting, and sometimes the best way to land top talent is to wait until the major corporate competition is not active. Data reveals that for new jobs put out to search, December is 35 percent lower than average, while …
Read More »[SLIDES] EFFECTIVE TIPS FOR GETTING HIRING MANAGERS TO FOCUS ON GREAT RECRUITING
Does Your CEO Know You’re Rejecting Tens of Thousands Who Like Your Firm?
As seen on ERE Media, November 27, 2017. Any firm in the Fortune 200 is likely rejecting half a million applicants each and every year. But unbeknownst to most recruiting leaders, their awkward and mostly unmanaged process for notifying applicants that they have been rejected is likely causing millions of …
Read More »How to Get Reluctant Hiring Managers Focused on Hiring
As seen on recruitingtrends, November 20, 2017. The No. 1 struggle of recruiters around the world is getting hiring managers to prioritize, and to spend more time on, recruiting. This almost universal willingness of hiring managers to put off important recruiting tasks, of course, makes no logical sense. After all, …
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