As the economy heats up and firms once again look to build up their talent strength, it’s only logical that senior leaders, managers and HR professionals will increasingly look at retention as a major business imperative. But as a professional who has been designing retention solutions for corporations for well …
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Employment Branding: Calculating the Economic Impacts
Employment branding is a powerful recruiting retention and motivation tool. For most successful organizations, great employment branding efforts revolve around these six pillars: Becoming “talked about” in key industry and functional publications Getting listed in best-places-to-work lists Getting listed on best practice benchmarking lists and in research studies Improving …
Read More »31 Things That Set Great Recruiters Apart From the Average
Anyone can call themselves a recruiter. There are no university degrees in recruiting, no laws that require you to pass a test or be certified like those required to become an accountant or lawyer. All it takes is a job title and a business card. To compound the problem, most …
Read More »Recruiting Top Performers: It’s Your Job!
This past Friday (March 26, 2004), Lou Adler penned an article for his ER Daily column entitled, Why You Must Hire Top Employees, Not Top Candidates. The title of this article is something akin to an absolute truth in my book. In philosophical terms, an absolute truth is an idea or …
Read More »Stop Holding Us Back! Problems and Roadblocks in Recruitment
Twice a year, corporate recruiting leaders from around the world converge for several days of learning, sharing, networking, and good times at the ER Expo conference. As usual, I was at the most recent ER Expo, which took place on March 15 and 16 in San Diego. While the program …
Read More »Offshoring: Reasons For Failure
Offshoring has become a major topic of conversation lately as more and more firms look to leverage the economic benefits of lower labor costs and availability of skilled labor abroad. While politically many see offshoring in slow economic times, when jobs for U.S. workers are scarce, as taboo, for many …
Read More »The 2004 Recruitment Boom: An Interview with Dr. John Sullivan
As an author and corporate advisor, I receive several hundred questions a week from firms looking for advice, direction, and assistance on recruiting issues. Recently, I was contacted by a firm who posed the following questions after reading article I had previously written on preparing for the second installment of …
Read More »Increasing Diversity Hires by Modifying Your Employee Referral Program
Nearly every firm that has studied recruiting effectiveness has come to the conclusion that employee referral programs are the most effective way to find and hire high quality employees. What makes referral programs so effective is that they “multiply” the number of recruiters that a firm has available. Instead of …
Read More »Maintaining Your Status as a Great Recruiter: What You Should Read
Recruiting changes faster than any other HR function. Some of the factors that keep recruiters on their toes include a constantly changing economy, the increasing globalization of talent search, and rapid changes in technology. The net result of all of these changes is that no matter how good a recruiter …
Read More »The 8 Elements of a Successful Employment Brand
Many organizations are starting to see glimmers of faster paced growth. As a reaction, many are becoming more aware of the need to build their employment brand as a well-managed company and good place to work. And while senior executives long ago realized the value of building product brands, and …
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