I estimate that hiring managers are responsible for more than 60 percent of all delays and errors during hiring. So if you want to improve your quality of hire, reduce position vacancy days, and improve process compliance, it only makes sense to try to get hiring managers to put a …
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If Martian Executives Visited Recruiting … What Would They Find Missing?
It may seem like a strange proposition at first, but what if an experienced business executive who knew nothing about recruiting visited and took a snapshot assessment of your function? Obviously even a Martian executive would be able to quickly find and understand traditional recruiting functions like employer branding, sourcing, …
Read More »Ebola — Are Your Corporate Leaders Prepared for All Upcoming Employee Issues?
You might initially think that Ebola is only a medical issue, but corporate leaders, HR, and recruiting professionals should realize that the likely upcoming Ebola-related panic and anxiety will also negatively impact an organization’s employees and candidates. Take a moment to visualize this possible scenario where during the upcoming flu …
Read More »Recruit Top Prospects During Their ‘Angry Hours’ — Because Timing Is Everything
An in-depth analysis on how the right timing can dramatically improve recruiting In my experience, the hardest-to-recruit exceptional targets are those who I label as “no, and stop calling me” passive top prospects who simply won’t accept a recruiter’s call. Even though most recruiters will tell you that their lack …
Read More »HR Ranks at the Bottom — Reasons to Adopt Metrics and Predictive Analytics
When you survey the most frequent users of analytics and metrics in the corporate world, not surprisingly you find that HR ranks at the very bottom. Compared to finance, which is ranked No. 1, HR compares poorly with only half of its functions being classified as advanced users and three …
Read More »What’s Wrong With Retention Bonuses? Pretty Much Everything
In 30 years, I have yet to see a retention bonus retain, let alone motivate, anyone. – Kate D’ Camp, former VP of HR at Cisco Let’s face it: only a few people voluntarily spend any time thinking about the use of employee retention bonuses (ERBs). I wouldn’t either, except for the …
Read More »Workforce Speed — the Most Impactful Talent Factor That No One Is Managing
I work in the Silicon Valley, where we have a long-established mantra of “faster, cheaper and better.” But now no matter where you work in the world, almost everyone can sense the fact that every aspect of global business now seems to move significantly faster than it did even 10 …
Read More »10 Ways to Align Recruiting Plans with Your Corporate Goals and Strategy: How Recruiting Can Prove Its Business Impact
10 critical action steps that can lead to the recruiting function being considered as a corporate strategic hero.
Read More »Experience Is Overrated — Arguments for Hiring Talented Individuals Without Perfect Credentials
by Dr. John Sullivan and Trena Luong Orville Wright did not have a pilot’s license –slogan used at Facebook to warn hiring managers not to overly focus on credentials I, the lead author, have 40 years of experience working in the talent space. But given that experience, I still don’t understand …
Read More »Refusing to Hire Overqualified Candidates – a Myth That Can Hurt Your Firm
Imagine being assigned a physician and then purposely rejecting them solely because they were “overqualified” for your medical situation. Well that’s exactly what happens when hiring managers reject candidates who have “too many” qualifications. There is simply no excuse in this new era of data-based recruiting to adhere to this …
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