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10 Business And Recruiting Reasons For Requesting Salary Information
As seen on TLNT (April 26, 2017). The practice of firms either requesting or requiring applicants to provide their salary history is coming under tremendous pressure as part of the overall push for pay equity for women. As a result, there are many new and proposed laws about the salary …
Read More »Some Firms Use The Practice Of Requesting Salary History — Why Firms Ask For It And How They Use It
As seen on ERE Media (April 24, 2017). The practice of firms either requesting or requiring applicants to provide their “salary history” is coming under tremendous pressure as part of the overall push for pay equity for women. And as a result, there are many new and proposed laws about the …
Read More »What HR Should Do In The Wake Of United’s PR Debacle
As seen on TLNT (April 14, 2017). By now, most of us have seen the shocking video where United Airlines had an unwilling 69-year-old passenger dragged off of one of their airplanes. Many are also aware that United also recently refused to let two teenage girls fly because they were wearing …
Read More »7 Metrics That the Most Data-Savvy Recruiting Teams Are Tracking
As seen on LinkedIn Talent Blog (April 18, 2017). If you closely research (as I have) the top five global companies with the highest market value (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook) you’ll realize that they all have three things in common. First, they are all serial-innovation firms. Second, they …
Read More »Facing A Shortage Of Applicants? — Losing Applicants Explained With 5 Ugly Numbers
As seen on ERE Media (April 17, 2017). It’s an almost universal complaint across both corporations and small businesses around the world. “We aren’t getting enough applicants and it is hurting our business.” This shortage of applications is probably occurring despite the fact that your corporation is well known and …
Read More »Why Candidates Are Dropping Out of Your Hiring Process
As seen on Yello (March 31, 2017) by Tracy Kelly. HR industry thought leader and professor of management at San Francisco State University, Dr. John Sullivan, says the cost to candidate withdrawal is real; the lost investment is a drain on team resources. Your online application is too complicated Sullivan …
Read More »Ouch, 50% Of New Hires Fail! 6 Ugly Numbers Revealing Recruiting’s Dirty Little Secret
As seen on ERE Media (April 10, 2017). Large corporations have thousands of business processes, but I doubt that you’ve ever heard of a single process that has a 50 percent failure rate. So your firm’s executives will be shocked to learn that the recruiting process (the HR process …
Read More »[Video] Should You Hire An Employee, A Robot or An Algorithm? HCI Event
As seen live March 8, 2017, at the HCI 2017 Workforce Planning & People Analytics Conference. You can find the slides here.
Read More »Frustrated With Your Recruiting Results? Ask New Hires ‘What Worked’
As seen on ERE Media (April 5, 2017). It’s a basic law for business process improvement. When your process is completed, you survey your users to find out what worked and what didn’t work. In recruiting, it turns out that identifying “what worked” is the second-most impactful of all internally …
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