One of the most frequent questions that I get is, “What are the best practices in recruiting?” Well, one best practice that always appears near the top of my list is developing a “most wanted list.” Unfortunately, this approach is rare in the corporate world, where 100 percent of all …
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I Learned Everything I Know About Great Talent Metrics…From Baseball
Many are shocked when I reveal that after 30 years of developing talent metrics, I have concluded that the best place to benchmark talent metrics isn’t a major corporation like Google or IBM, it is Major League Baseball. Ever since the book Moneyball came out, corporate and talent management leaders …
Read More »The Secret to Recruiting Top Performers? Forget the Perks. Here’s What Matters.
As seen in 1-Page Blog (Dr. John Sullivan is a member of the Board of Advisors) by Dr John Sullivan on October 12, 2015 “It’s the work (stupid).” That is the gist of the answer that you get when you ask top performers, “What would attract you to a new …
Read More »ESports — An Under-The-Radar Social Media Community That Recruiters Should Use
By Dr. John Sullivan February 22, 2016 | ERE The dream of every corporate recruiting leader is to discover a phenomenal secret source that few in recruiting are even aware of. That recruiting source would ideally be a social media community, so its members would be “social savvy.” The new source …
Read More »Top Candidates Are Gone Within 10 Days … So Assign Each A ‘Hire-By-Date’
By Dr. John Sullivan February 15, 2016 | ERE If business people ran recruiting … they would assign a “hire by date” to each must-hire candidate, because these valuable in-demand candidates are likely to be quickly out of the job market. Perhaps an example will help you understand the concept of …
Read More »How to Identify Employees Who Are at Risk of Quitting Your Small Firm
As seen in the Wall Street Journal The Experts (Dr Sullivan is a member of the panel of experts). Retaining every employee is critical to a small business, because with a low number of employees, losing even one has an impact that even your customers will notice. Because it …
Read More »7 Rules for Job Interview Questions That Result in Great Hires
As seen on Harvard Business Review. Some of the long-held ideas about how to conduct interviews are no longer accurate. For example, there’s no such thing as a surprise interview question anymore. With sites like Glassdoor.com, candidates can identify each of your likely interview questions and expected answers ahead of time. …
Read More »Pinterest Produces Amazing Diversity Results … Using Proactive Targeted Referrals
By focusing on one type of diversity referral program, within six weeks a firm can dramatically turn around its diversity recruiting … to the point of, for engineering jobs, “a 55-fold increase in the percentage of candidates from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds” and a “24 percent increase in women applicants.” Well, these dramatic …
Read More »Pinterest Produces Amazing Diversity Results … Using Proactive Targeted Referrals
By focusing on one type of diversity referral program, within six weeks a firm can dramatically turn around its diversity recruiting … to the point of, for engineering jobs, “a 55-fold increase in the percentage of candidates from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds” and a “24 percent increase in women applicants.” Well, these dramatic …
Read More »The Most Damaging Strategic Omission In Recruiting — Candidate Research
You Don’t Know Jack … About Your Recruiting Targets If businesspeople ran recruiting … candidate research would dominate! Even though both recruiting and product sales are involved in a form of selling, only the sales function has shifted to a business-like data-driven approach to understanding its sales target. Where they …
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