Corporations are currently encountering the highest voluntary turnover rate in a decade. And when they have to refill the position that was vacated by an employee quitting, it now takes a record 29 days to refill that vacated position. These two statistics combined should be enough to motivate HR and …
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[Webinar] The Future Of HR – It Will Be Dramatically Different, So You Better Start Planning Now
You can find the latest on the Future of HR from Dr. John Sullivan. Here, Dr. John Sullivan provides the underlying changes in the workforce and the actions HR needs to take to catch up with the workforce.
Read More »The ‘27 Names’ Strategy for Recruiting New Employees
A single job opening can expand hiring possibilities exponentially, if you leverage WSJ Leadership Expert John Sullivan’s strategy. (Originally published in the WSJ Experts July 21, 2016 1:15 pm ET). One of the toughest challenges in business is to find qualified, experienced workers. Especially in industries like tech or manufacturing where …
Read More »Develop A Process For Limiting Early New-Hire Turnover
Early new-hire turnover is one of the most frustrating (40 percent of new hires leave within six months) and expensive (the cost of losing a new hire is at least three times their salary) aspects of recruiting. Yes, it’s true that all forms of turnover are now a major business …
Read More »Don’t Just Fix What’s Broken In Recruiting, Consider What You’re Not Doing
Identifying the key program omissions in talent acquisition One of the key characteristics of strategic leaders is that they don’t just focus on refining existing processes, they are also forward-looking. So they continually ask themselves the strategic question “What is missing that we should be adding?” It’s easier to focus …
Read More »Important Recruiting Lessons From LeBron, Stephen Curry, And Other Game Changers
LeBron James and Stephen Curry are without a doubt both great basketball players. However, those in recruiting should also realize that these two game changers can also provide many valuable recruiting lessons that are adaptable to corporations. Let’s start with LeBron. If LeBron James was a corporate hire, he would …
Read More »The Key Operational Components Of An Effective Talent Pipeline Part 3 of 3
Let’s face reality: most sourcing efforts are extremely rushed. As a result, there is a high probability that in key jobs, your sourcing effort will completely miss a significant number of high-quality external prospects. If you instead want to avoid missing a single top prospect, a superior approach is to …
Read More »The Many Benefits From A Talent Pipeline – And How It Improves Quality Of Hire Part 2 of 3
If you’re looking for a powerful strategic recruiting approach that has powerful long-term impacts, you really only have two choices: employer branding, and a “recruiting talent pipeline.” While almost every major corporation is investing heavily in building their employer brand, it’s quite rare for one to actually have a high-performing …
Read More »Your Job Postings Aren’t Attracting Top Applicants, And A Simple Test Will Prove It
You simply can’t catch trophy fish with weak bait, and similarly, you can’t attract quality candidates with dull and ineffective job post descriptions. But most corporations simply post their descriptions without design criteria or any pretesting. This is a serious error because a simple side-by-side comparison test approach (borrowed from …
Read More »Your Talent Pipeline Needs a Roto-Router Because It’s Not Producing / Part 1 of a 3 Part Series
A comprehensive name-capturing guide for identifying who should be in your recruiting pipeline Let’s get straight to the point: having an external recruiting talent pipeline is a powerful tool but almost no one does it well. You can tell if your pipeline is failing if more than 50 percent of …
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