You will never become a world-class recruiter if you restrict your learning to benchmarking against other similar corporate recruiting functions. Great recruiters can and do learn many things by studying completely different business functions like sales, marketing, branding, supply chain management, quality control, and customer relationship management. In addition, great …
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Recruiting for Innovators? Hire Angry People!
It’s About More than Passion Many firms already target passionate people who love their work, but passion by itself doesn’t always breed discontent for things that are no longer working as they should. Individuals who are professionally angry are often not only passionate, but also possess a relentless drive to …
Read More »It’s Time to Hire Tiger Woods — and Other “Down but not Out” Individuals
A Rare Opportunity to Recruit a Star Recruiting down but not out stars during a short down period in their life provides a firm with a rare opportunity to hire a top performer when competition is not as intense. At first glance, this might seem like a high risk approach, …
Read More »[Webinar] 2010 Talent Acquisition Trends: Q & A on Recommended Action Steps
Prepare action step outlines — it’s not necessary to complete a detailed written plan for every possibility, but you should prepare an action outline highlighting the key steps that you would take for the most likely upcoming events. Develop these steps using if-then scenarios (i.e. if this happens, then we …
Read More »Crowdsourcing: A Red-Balloon-Finding Contest Shows the Future of Recruiting
A Contest to Identify the Most Effective “Finding Tool” This story begins with a famous government agency, DARPA, wanting to test the effectiveness of the available tools/approaches to locate missing objects or individuals, i.e., pieces of downed aircraft, wanted criminals, or missing children. Because this task was so large in …
Read More »Emerging Talent Acquisition Trends For 2010: Are You Ready for a Roller Coaster? (Part III of III)
Action steps for handling the power shift There are four primary action steps that you should consider when the competition for attracting and retaining talent once again becomes intense for your organization: Jugaad is now required: The intense competition for candidates that occurs in a war for talent, coupled with …
Read More »Emerging Talent Acquisition Trends For 2010: Are You Ready for a Roller Coaster? (Part II of III)
2010, A Year of Turmoil and Churn in Business and the Economy The first group of talent acquisition trends will be driven by shifting economic and business cycles. The development of a global economy and the emergence of an expectation among business leaders and customers for continuous, rapid, and dramatic …
Read More »The Expanding Role of Recruiters in Strategic Talent Management
Presentation Date: April 8, 2010 Producer: TriState SHRM (www.tristateshrm.com) Event Type: Conference Session Description: When the housing bubble burst and financial institutions around the globe started wavering, many in the recruiting profession felt that it was only a matter of time before throngs of recruiters were laid off as organizations …
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Presentation Date: January 13, 2010 Producer: ERE Media (www.ere.net) Event Type: Webinar Sponsor: Job Search Television Network (www.myjstn.com) Session Description: 2009 was a roller coaster year for many in talent acquisition. Despite continued turmoil impacting the global economy, the vast majority of organizations generated numerous hires and moved forward on …
Read More »[Podcast] Furlough Fight
Furlough Fight On New Year's Eve, a California judge blocked furloughs for tens of thousands of state workers, saying that Governor Schwarzenegger abused his discretion with the furlough plan. We look at how the increased prevalence of worker furloughs in California is impacting workers and employers in the both public and private sectors.
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