Hiring managers and recruiters have a long history of rejecting “job jumpers.” And even today, 43 percent of employers won’t consider job jumpers, according to CareerBuilder. If you are not familiar with the term, a “job jumper” or “job hopper” is a recruiting prospect who has had short tenures with …
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Silver Medalists — Reconsider Those Who Came Close to Getting Hired
20 Categories Of Candidates Who You Should Revisit One of the most underused but surprisingly effective approaches to hiring focuses on “silver medalists. If you’re not familiar with the term in recruiting, it is revisiting past applicants who that came in second during a previous hiring effort. Now if you’re …
Read More »You Might Be Surprised How Much Commute Issues Hurt Hiring and Retention
As more firms adapt a data-supported approach to HR decision-making, new data is revealing that commute issues can have a major impact on hiring success and retention. Now you may have assumed that commute issues were an obscure factor with only a minor impact, but you would be wrong. You …
Read More »Not All Turnover Is Bad — Why Keeping Every Long-Tenure Employee May Be Overrated
This is “a think piece” — it is designed to cause you to rethink any preconceived notions that you might have that the retention of long-tenure employees is always a positive thing. As turnover rates for employees continue to increase, there seems to be an almost universal agreement among HR …
Read More »(Slides) Silicon Valley Workforce Performance Secrets
High performance from the silicon valley hr from Dr John Sullivan
Read More »Your Future as a Recruiter: You Better Know How to Sell, Because Most of What You Do Today Will Be Done By Technology
If you are currently a recruiter and you’re worried about your future … I agree, you should be. Consider a future as a recruiter where sourcing is gone, and so is resume screening and candidate assessment. All that is left for recruiter to do is related to selling candidates, which …
Read More »Professor John Sullivan is quoted in article about Yahoo’s challenge in retaining acquired talent
Yahoo’s Other Challenge: Retaining Acquired Talent By Dow Jones Business News, April 30, 2015, 04:24:00 PM EDT AAA By Douglas MacMillan A few times a year, Yahoo Inc. organizes dinners for the entrepreneurs who sold their startups to the Internet company and still work there. The dinners are a chance …
Read More »Strategic My A**, What Strategic Recruiting really looks like
Strategic My A**, What Strategic Recruiting really looks like from Dr John Sullivan
Read More »Don’t Be Left Behind… As HR Shifts To A Data-Driven, High Business Impact Approach 2.0
Don’t Be Left Behind… As HR Shifts To A Data-Driven, High Business Impact Approach from Dr John Sullivan
Read More »The Top 10 Thought-provoking CFO ‘Questions From Hell’ for Recruiting Leaders
Recruiting questions from hell that most recruiting leaders can’t answer May I suggest that this may be the most thought-provoking recruiting article that you read this year. It is thought provoking because it covers mind-numbing questions that you are likely to get covering the business impacts of recruiting. Answering tough …
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