Alert: the common corporate excuse for low diversity (the supply) dissolves if you offer “work from anywhere jobs” and fill them globally. Obviously, the workforce of the entire world is diverse. So, you should consider taking advantage of that fact with “the next big diversity solution.” Sourcing
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Discourage Applications From People You Will Never Hire
Are you flooded with unqualified applicants that have no chance of being hired? Proactively discourage them and avoid wasted recruiter time and legal risks. Due to record high unemployment levels during this unprecedented downturn, most organizations are being bombarded with applications. Unfortunately, many of these applicants have no chance of being hired. Every organization, of course, welcomes fully qualified applicants. …
Read More »Quoted by Breezy.HR – Inclusion in the Workplace: 10 Simple Rules Straight from the Pros
Diverse approaches and ideas are encouraged and celebrated because they help us expand the number of available options covering the ways that we can act.
Read More »Hire Those That Beat You – A High Business Impact Recruiting Strategy
After a sports team beats yours, you try to hire their highest impact player away. Corporations can also prevent losing future competitions using a “hire those that beat you” recruiting program. Which is a program that targets directly hiring at least one key employee away from a competitor’s team that recently beat your company in a head-to-head product development race. …
Read More »Is Your HR Function Strategic? – Take This Quick Assessment Test
Every HR function strives “to be strategic.” To actually qualify, I’ve found that all HR leaders need to be able to answer these 6 qualifying “Questions From Hell,” with the same consistent answers. Also, realize that simply having a goal of being strategic or stating that your function is strategic doesn’t make it so. The overuse of the word “strategic” …
Read More »Concern For Employee Health – Suddenly It’s A Top Attraction Factor
A key to recruiting success is to highlight the factors that excite and attract your targeted prospects. Today, “maintaining employee health” must be included in every recruiting message.
Read More »What’s Wrong With Hiring Freezes – Pretty Much Everything
Hiring freezes are common during downturns. However, they are often an economic mistake that hurts revenue generation and product development. Their “unintended consequences” are seldom identified, tracked, or quantified in dollars by talent leadership.
Read More »Outrageous Recruiting Examples – Stretching Your Conservative Recruiting Boundaries
Recruiting is a risk-averse copycat function. However, to get creative prospects to notice you, having the courage to add boundary-stretching “outrageous recruiting” approaches is needed. Using even one will make your organization stand out. Outrageous Recruiting Sends Both An Employer Brand And A Recruiting Message Few recruiting leaders will publicly admit it, but recruiting is a copycat function. Where every …
Read More »Black Jobs Matter Too – An Opportunity To Fix Diversity Hiring
The impact of the Black Lives Matter movement may be limited to changes in police tactics. But why not broaden its impact so that it reduces our record high Black unemployment by finally fixing corporate diversity recruiting. In our view, it’s time for corporate leaders to do their part in the diversity area they can best impact, employment opportunities.
Read More »How To Hire “Remote Team Players” – An Idea Stimulator
If you’re striving to learn how to hire remote workers (or if you strive to become one), here are some ideas that should stimulate your thinking about how it could be done.
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