There are basically 4 ways businesses motivate workers. They include: Cash Benefits Non-monetary (recognition, challenge, etc.) Stock or stock options
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Resumes Stink, Start Asking For A Portfolio
Recruiters have been “placing ads and reading resumes” for decades. As an HR professor I get to review hundreds of resumes and I never have understood why any HR professional would rely on it as an accurate source of information about a candidate. If you really want to find out …
Read More »How to Ruin a Great Recruiting Effort with the “Orientation From Hell” – Part II
This is the second of a two part series on how to “close the sale” after a world class recruiting effort Sales Reps know it – First impressions are everything! HR professionals need to know it also. Many corporations miss an opportunity to make a great first impression and to …
Read More »How To Ruin A Great Recruiting Effort With The “Orientation From Hell” – Part I
This is the first of a two part series on how to “close the sale” after a world class recruiting effort. SALES REPS KNOW IT – FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE EVERYTHING! HR professionals need to know it also. Many corporations miss an opportunity to make a great first impression and to …
Read More »Rethinking Interviews – The “Fut R View”: A Better Way To Hire
Most interview strategies were developed long before the “Internet” age when the speed of change in business was rather slow. However, if your business is in a rapidly-changing environment, you will need new tools that can tell you more about the future possibilities of a candidate than what they did …
Read More »Don’t Isolate Your Employment Function – Coordinate Your Recruiting And Marketing Efforts
Who… Places newspaper ads to get people’s attention and to bring in potential clients? Holds events and goes to “shows” to attract people? Has the responsibility to build the company image and to attract future customers? Uses the web to find “potential new contacts/customers”?
Read More »Cost Per Hire A “Better Metric” Is The Quality Of Hire
All the recent net traffic on cost per hire pushed my button so here are some thoughts on what’s wrong with it.I hear HR professionals say they want to be strategic but often their actions indicate otherwise. Take the all too commonly used “cost per hire” metric. Sure it’s used …
Read More »The Most Effective Recruiting Tool: Employee Referral Systems
What’s the best recruiting tool? Web pages, relationship recruiting? It may come as a surprise to many that the tool which brings in the highest quality of candidate for the buck is an employee referral program. The very best firms get more than 50% of their hires from employee referrals. …
Read More »Gaining A Competitive Advantage Through Increasing “The Speed Of Hire”
Want to achieve extraordinary results? Set unreasonable timetables! – John Patrick IBM Strategist What is the speed of hire? A deliberate strategy for improving the quality of our hires by decreasing the cycle time for making a hiring decision. Don’t confuse speed of hire with “time to fill”. Speed of …
Read More »How to Continually Improve Your Recruiting Program!
Many recruiters get it all wrong! They put major effort into finding great candidates but they almost universally leave out one of the most important aspects of any business deal… they fail to check to see if the customer is satisfied and if the product “works” after the “sale”! I …
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