There is an emerging recruiting trend where traditional employee referral programs are being expanded to allow non-employees to submit referrals. I call these variation “friends of the firm” referrals (FOF) because it expands the number of individuals who are looking for top talent for your firm beyond the traditional employee …
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Talent Management Lessons From the Super Bowl for Corporate Leaders
A couple years back I was asked to outline “the future of talent management” in a talk at Google headquarters. Then as now, I predicted the future of talent management will follow the “professional sports model,” which many of you undoubtedly witnessed during yesterday’s Super Bowl. Some in HR carelessly …
Read More »These Strategic Goals Can Help to Focus Your Recruiting Function
What could be more important than having everyone on your team focused and on the same page? Unfortunately, in my interactions with corporate recruiting leaders, I am frequently surprised to find that they don’t have a formal set of strategic goals for their talent acquisition function. That’s a major problem …
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As a leader in talent management, you have undoubtedly already noticed that there has been continuous volatility and change in business. Well this world of turmoil actually has a name, which is VUCA, where VUCA is an acronym for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. In order to survive, every area …
Read More »Unless You Segment Your Recruiting Messaging, You Won’t Attract Top Performers and Techies
Unless you tailor your bait, you’ll never attract the very best prospects It might sound silly on the surface, but fishing and recruiting have a lot in common. Any seasoned fisherman or woman would tell you without hesitation that the same bait that effectively attracts small fish simply would have …
Read More »Advice and How-Tos Calculating the Tremendous Dollar Value of a Top-performing or Innovative Employee
In professional sports, almost everyone readily agrees that a top-performing athlete is worth their weight in gold. That value is clearly reflected in their compensation, where for example a top-performing NFL quarterback can get paid 10 times more than the third-string quarterback on the same team. The value of adding …
Read More »Calculating the Dollar Costs of a Bad or Weak-performing Employee
Almost every manager, when asked, readily agrees that weak employees underperform average employees by a significant amount. We certainly know from sports teams, where performance is easily measured, that there is a huge performance differential (often double or triple) between the below average, average, and top performers in the same …
Read More »Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Strategic Talent Leaders
The New Year is the perfect time to reexamine and refocus your talent efforts. The coming year will see a surge in economic growth, but it will occur in a business environment with continued volatility. Succeeding in this environment will require a new approach. So before all of the activity …
Read More »Who Are the Despicable Mes in Recruiting?
The combination of the popular “Despicable Me” movies and the Christmas season made me think about who in the recruiting process should get “a lump of coal” in their stockings for their naughty behavior. Obviously any list like this that identifies problem-causers involves some generalizations, because there are always some …
Read More »The Top 25 Recruiting Trends, Problems, and Opportunities for 2014, Part 1 and 2
Even if you work in a corporate recruiting function with low resources or minimal expectations for change, every recruiter still has a professional obligation to maintain their awareness of the latest trends and predictions. I have grouped 25 predictions of the leading corporate recruiting trends for 2014 into four separate …
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