On August 26, 2015, Dr John Sullivan partnered with ERE Media to post the most innovative recruiting strategies used by the leading firms. The slides have been enclosed. ERE Webinar Slides by Dr John Sullivan
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From Ordinary To Extraordinary – 11 Tips To Transform Your HR Stories (part 3 of 3)
By Dr. John Sullivan ATC June 22, 2015 Part 1- Using Stories To Improve Your Recruiting Results Part 2- Ensuring Your Stories Are Shared And Have Impact Elements That Will Make Your Stories Significantly “More Powerful” It’s important to make each story as impactful as possible. Including one or more …
Read More »The Secret to Hiring the Best Employees at a Small Business
August 24, 2015 Wall Street Journal By Dr John Sullivan Smaller firms have one advantage over their larger rivals, and that’s the knowledgeable and personalized service provided by their passionate employees. In fact, employee friendliness, knowledge and empathy may be the primary reason why your customers return. Yes, employees are …
Read More »Ensuring Your Stories Are Shared And Have Impact (part 2 of 3)
By Dr John Sullivan ATC June 16, 2015 Part 1- Using Stories To Improve Your Recruiting Results Part 2- Ensuring Your Stories Are Shared And Have Impact Part 3- From Ordinary To Extraordinary – 11 Tips To Transform Your HR Stories In my previous article I discussed why you should …
Read More »It’s Embarrassing: Every Business Function Measures Quality, Except Recruiting
Recruiting Is Literally the Last Function to Measure It’s Output Quality Quality is such an easy-to-understand thing. It is an improvement in performance above and beyond the ordinary. Since the 1980s, every internal corporate business function has found a way to measure the quality of its outputs, whether they are …
Read More »Collaborative Hiring — the Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Switch to It
For hundreds of years, managers have owned the hiring process. However, as more firms learn the benefits of shifting away from top-down decision-making and toward a collaborative model, it’s time to rethink the manager’s sole ownership of this critical business process. In the Silicon Valley, we frequently operate under a …
Read More »Isn’t LeBron Amazing? Imagine the Impact of Hiring a Similar ‘Game Changer’ Into Your Firm
Corporate executives don’t have to be sports experts to realize the incredible value that LeBron James has added to the Cleveland Cavalier NBA team in a single year. Consider these amazing impacts since his hiring. The value of the team went up an astonishing 78 percent ($400 million); its operating …
Read More »The Top 10 Reasons Why Rejecting ‘Job Jumpers’ Is Dumb, and a Missed Opportunity
Hiring managers and recruiters have a long history of rejecting “job jumpers.” And even today, 43 percent of employers won’t consider job jumpers, according to CareerBuilder. If you are not familiar with the term, a “job jumper” or “job hopper” is a recruiting prospect who has had short tenures with …
Read More »Silver Medalists — Reconsider Those Who Came Close to Getting Hired
20 Categories Of Candidates Who You Should Revisit One of the most underused but surprisingly effective approaches to hiring focuses on “silver medalists. If you’re not familiar with the term in recruiting, it is revisiting past applicants who that came in second during a previous hiring effort. Now if you’re …
Read More »Your Future as a Recruiter: You Better Know How to Sell, Because Most of What You Do Today Will Be Done By Technology
If you are currently a recruiter and you’re worried about your future … I agree, you should be. Consider a future as a recruiter where sourcing is gone, and so is resume screening and candidate assessment. All that is left for recruiter to do is related to selling candidates, which …
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