After hearing brilliant interview answer after answer, you might be shocked to learn that AI wrote those answers. Article Descriptors| Recruiting /Interviews – AI generated answers – How to – 6 min read Yes, it’s true that today, the great interview answers that you are hearing may not be genuine …
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Stop Painful New-Hire Turnover – By Identifying Candidates That Will Quit (A checklist for screening out flight-risks)
38% of new hires quit, yet no one attempts to identify the candidates that are likely to quit. Which is puzzling. Because I have found that you can predict (with up to 70% accuracy) which candidates will quit during their first year. Article Descriptors| Recruiting /Retention – A Checklist Of …
Read More »Hire The Not-Yet-Promotable… And Improve Internal Movement (Hiring for this and the next job)
The Concept In A Nutshell Recruiting can broaden its strategic impact by hiring not-yet-promotable candidates (i.e., those who already meet 50% of the promotion criteria). If those recent hires continue developing, they will strengthen your talent pipeline and speed up internal movement/promotions. The only recruiting process change that will be …
Read More »The Dumbest Reasons For Rejecting Job Applicants (Questionable rejection factors that hurt hiring results)
How many of your qualified candidates are being rejected for these questionable reasons? Article Descriptors| Recruiting /rejection factors – How to – 4 min read It’s no secret that most hiring processes suffer because they are mostly intuitive and use assessment factors that don’t predict new hires’ on-the-job performance. As …
Read More »The Business Case For Hiring The Employed (That’s not a typo)
Which makes more sense, recruiting the unemployed 4% or the gigantic pool that already has a job (unfortunately, most get it bass-ackwards)? Fortunately, employed talent won’t be hard to recruit because today, an astounding 96% of all workers are looking for a new job. So, I promise that after closely examining …
Read More »Hire More Employed Candidates… By Raising Doubts About Their Current Job (The power of “doubt raising”)
Employed candidates are gold but hard to sell unless you raise new doubts about their current job. Descriptors| Recruiting /Selling The Employed – Increasing Doubts – How To – 8 min Yes, Doubts Do Change Job Acceptance Decisions I hope that everyone realizes this. Among your currently employed candidates, doubts …
Read More »Everyone Jokes About HR… These Fast-Acting Strategic Steps Will Change That
There are 20.5 million “jokes about HR,” double those in accounting and millions more than CEO’s. Don’t you wish HR could stop them? Article Descriptors| Strategic Steps/Fast-Acting – List Of Five – 5 Min Read Don’t Complain… Act Yes, since Dilbert began providing readers with jokes about HR, it has …
Read More »Bad HR Can Cost You Billions, Just Ask Apple (How ignored HR process vulnerabilities can lead to business catastrophes)
Retention and recruiting were factors in the downfall of Apple’s $10 billion EV car project! Boeing’s missing door catastrophe was also caused by overlooked HR vulnerabilities. Article Descriptors | Another case of bad HR – Apple’s EV failure – Identifying HR vulnerabilities – 6-minute read Here We Go Again, First …
Read More »Improve Hiring… With These Top No-Cost, Offer Acceptance Boosters (The complete guide for getting your offers accepted)
The most damaging part is when, at the end of hiring, your top candidate surprises you with a no answer. Article descriptors| Recruiting /Offer acceptance – How to actions – 6 min scan Realize That… Offer Acceptance Is A High-Impact Step It’s no longer okay to just stand by. Today, …
Read More »Bad HR Can Cost You Billions, Just Ask Boeing – Why HR Needs To Embrace Risk Management
Boeing is suffering an estimated $45 billion loss from a single employee error. So, add reducing errors to HR’s responsibilities, or this could happen to you. A Think Piece – Urging HR to develop a risk management process that focuses on reducing employee errors. Before you assume that employee errors …
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