Imagine a recruiting session with your hiring manager where you are selecting from among three finalists who all seem to be about equal in their required qualifications and thus their ability to do this “current job.” And you speak up and proactively recommended hiring candidate B, because they have a …
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How to Double Your Business Impacts by Assessing a Candidate’s Career Trajectory
As seen on LinkedIn Talent Blog October 12, 2017. Republished on Energy Central as 15 Ways to Assess If a Candidate Has High Growth Potential. Any recruiter or hiring manager would be crazy not to consider a recruiting approach that could double the value they bring to the company. Well, this …
Read More »WOW Hiring Managers by Projecting the Retention Trajectory of Candidates
Add a Future Focused Element to Your Hiring Assessments Hiring managers all too often undervalue their recruiters because they feel that they know more about the finalist candidates than the recruiter does. But imagine sitting down with your hiring manager at the time when they must decide on which of …
Read More »How to Help New Hires Get up to Speed
Interview with Dr. John Sullivan by Ken Wysocky. Have you ever started to read a much-hyped book with great enthusiasm and anticipation, only to stop after a few chapters because it just wasn’t compelling enough to keep on going? At many companies and organizations, inadequate and mind-numbing onboarding programs are …
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Not Hiring Exceptional Candidates Is Extremely Damaging but It’s Preventable
Note: This article is part of a continuing series covering high-impact business practices that recruiting should be doing, but it doesn’t! Losing Exceptional Candidates Is Damaging Your Firm Learning specifically why exceptional candidates were not hired can be added to the list of the many things that corporate recruiting functions, …
Read More »Managers Are Hoarding Talent: A Hidden Problem That’s Likely Hurting Your Firm
Expediting the transfer of employees among diverse business units allows a firm to develop and retain employees, while simultaneously increasing the cross-pollenization of ideas and the transfer of best practices. Unfortunately, I find that executives at every large organization I have visited consistently complain that this beneficial movement simply doesn’t …
Read More »Need Top Performers? Hire Candidates With a Strong Professional Network
Everyone knows the power of networks. But many hiring managers and recruiters are surprised to learn that the strength of someone’s professional network is also one of the strongest predictors of individual employee performance. Professional learning networks differ from the more common social networks like Facebook, which contains mostly family …
Read More »The Changing Nature of Tech Recruitment
As seen on Pierpoint on September 12, 2017, by Alex Walker. Writing at 1 – Page Blog, Dr. John Sullivan says the “avalanche of next-generation trends” in recruitment can quickly render recruiters skill sets outdated. Artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and predictive analytics are some of those next-generation trends, and recruiters need …
Read More »Firms Can’t Be Competitive Without Strong AI, But Even Apple Struggles to Recruit AI Talent
If your firm wants to be dominant, it should follow the lead of the world’s most successful firms. So corporate leaders should take note that each of the CEO’s of the five most valuable firms (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon) have all publicly declared that artificial intelligence will be …
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