Top firms use collaborative recruiting because it “turns every employee into a recruiter” and a brand ambassador. Expanding involvement also improves hiring results and lightens recruiter workloads. If you haven’t heard about this increasingly popular approach, collaborative recruiting (aka team hiring) is where you purposely expand both employee and manager …
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Continuous Employee Background Checks May Now Be Required
What if one of your employees was arrested on an assault weapons threat, but you were unaware because you only check backgrounds at time of hire? How would a young mother employed at your firm react when she finds out that she was working alongside a recently convicted sexual predator? …
Read More »Preventing Racial and Other Offensive Slurs In The Workplace
Yes, the political brouhaha related to “the squad” and the President has implications within your workforce. First and for example, the EEOC has found that “go back” type comments are clearly discriminatory within the workplace (even though it may be tolerated in the political environment). Also, because of today’s politically charged environment, …
Read More »The Top 20 Retention Tools That Produce Immediate Results
Research has shown that between half and three-quarters of all turnover is preventable. That means an individual’s manager must take ownership of the retention problem and administer the retention tools that will prevent them from leaving.
Read More »[SLIDES] Secure Your Future By Preparing For Upcoming Opportunities and the Downturn
Loading… Taking too long? Reload document | Open in new tab Download [9.40 MB] It’s a well-established business axiom that “it’s better to be prepared than surprised.” It’s also important to be aware that in this increasingly volatile world of recruiting, under almost every likely upcoming scenario, the capabilities held …
Read More »Silicon Valley Recruiter’s Association Workshop on 03.20.2019
It’s a well-established business axiom that “it’s better to be prepared than surprised.” It’s also important to be aware that in this increasingly volatile world of recruiting, under almost every likely upcoming scenario, the capabilities held by the type of recruiter that will thrive dramatic shifts and the number of …
Read More »Separating the Recruiting Function From HR — A Strategic Opportunity!
Arguments for Separating the Recruiting Function From HR Note: This “think piece” is part of a series of articles that are designed to stimulate your thinking about strategic recruiting. Corporate recruiting can’t be completely successful in ending the talent shortage while it remains part of HR. If the recruiting function …
Read More »Here’s How a Slow Hiring Process Impacts Your Bottom Line – by eightfold.ai
The average time it takes to fill an open position is 44 days, representing a 50-percent increase since 2010, Dr. John Sullivan writes at ERE. For each day a position goes unfilled, the organization loses productivity, as the position’s tasks remain undone. Additional productivity losses occur as other staff members take time from their own work to cover the essential tasks of the open position. Since existing staff are stretched thinner, their engagement suffers and their risk of burnout increases, further jeopardizing long-term productivity.
Read More »The Ultimate Guide for Finding Innovators — Use It to Jumpstart Corporate Growth
Even though increasing corporate innovation is almost always a top-five CEO goal, surprisingly few in recruiting realize that the highest business-impact action in corporate HR is the hiring of innovators. Innovator new hires make an immediate quantum difference in an organization’s performance, direction, and image. Top executives at firms like …
Read More »The Future Of HR – Can You Survive The Transition?
Highlighting the Transition from Administrative HR to Business Impact HR I have been publicly forecasting HR’s future since 1998, when I wrote the groundbreaking, but at the time controversial article “e-HR – A Walk Through the 21st Century HR Department” for the IHRIM Journal. However, even today when I give presentations …
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