I almost broke out laughing when I came across an article in Fast Company magazine entitled Why You Can’t Find Women Engineers. This title reflects a common misconception among business executives about the shortage of technically qualified women at their firms. This often-repeated “shortage statement” is only partially true, and if you believe …

You are cordially invited to attend an exclusive breakfast event, Strategies on Successful Talent Management and Succession Planning for Mid-Sized Companies, on July 24, 2014. A distinguished panel of experts will discuss the top talent management and acquisition strategies that are key to succession planning for middle-market companies. This event is open to …

As the war for talent continues, it’s time for recruiting leaders and hiring managers to shift to more creative and innovative recruiting solutions. A bold approach that I have been recommending since 1999 is the creation of “evergreen jobs.” Simply put, these are the one or two most critical corporate …

In this exclusive HCI podcast, one of three for the 2014 Talent Pulse Acquisition report, we talked Dr. John Sullivan, CEO of Dr. John Sullivan & Associates. In this 15 minute interview, we asked Dr. John Sullivan: • How can recruiting passive candidates benefit organizations? • In addition to offering …

In case you missed it, there was a great deal of publicity generated recently when Google’s Laszlo Bock openly announced Google’s diversity numbers. Even Google was disappointed in them, but that shouldn’t be a surprise. Almost every major corporation struggles with meeting their diversity goals as a result of a poorly …

Is your conservative approach to recruiting hurting your results? The 3 goals for this webinar: Be a provocateur… and to aggressively challenge your thinking.To highlight the differences between traditional recruiting managers and bold recruiting leaders.To provide you with numerous examples of unique and bold recruiting practices.

In a world where it’s easy to get a “snapshot assessment” of your personal physical health or your organization’s financial or IT security effectiveness, what could be more valuable than an easy-to-conduct executive level “snapshot assessment” of talent management and HR? Unfortunately I have found that most in HR are …

The new recruiting “no job postings” website of Zappos is truly unique. First off, you have to give the Zappos team credit for eliminating anything in recruiting, because we have a long history in recruiting of adding but never subtracting approaches. The new talent community declares the end to job postings and …

There is an innovator brain drain going on. The drain is away from larger established firms, which desperately need more innovators, and toward startup firms, which are successfully recruiting a disproportionately high percentage of these prized innovators. It doesn’t matter whether your corporation is trying to hire experienced talent or recent …

Other than referrals from your top-performing employees, it’s hard to find a corporate recruiting source with a higher quality of hire (i.e. on-the-job performance) and a higher ROI than boomerang rehire programs. If you’re not familiar with the term, a “boomerang rehire” is a former top-performing employee who you rehire …