Recruiting Tools

Position prioritization allows the recruiting function to “do more with less” (with little effort). Illustrating The Dollar Impact Of Prioritizing Recruiting Normally, because of a shortage of recruiters. This corporation has a 30-day wait until a received requisition is actually acted on under its current date stamp rule. The req …

When you must fill a key job quickly, expiring/exploding offers will accelerate offer acceptance. How Expiring And Exploding Offers Will Improve Your Hiring Results There are two times when you need your offer to a finalist to be accepted quickly. Once when the position vacancy is so impactful, you need …

Having great “co-workers” is a primary attraction factor for top candidates (Gallup research). Being viewed as a more transparent, welcoming, and inclusive company will also increase your applications and offer acceptance rate (especially among currently employed top candidates who can just stay where they are). What Exactly Is A Team …

Newsflash: Powerful new data shows that interviews are horrible at identifying the best candidate! Where horrible is defined by interviews failing to select the best candidate over 90% of the time. However, you can dramatically lower this “ugly failure rate.” If you use data to restructure your interviews and then …

Hiring has the highest bus. impact in HR, and innovators produce the highest impact of any new hire. Article Descriptors| Recruiting / Innovators – Highlighting The Benefits – 5 Min Read Logically, there must be a single area within Talent Management that produces the highest business impact. And because of …

Top employees are reluctant to apply for external jobs because it makes them appear disloyal. “Getting caught” would not only be embarrassing, but it would likely result in some career damage at their current company. However, this “no application required” strategy delays any formal job application. It allows a currently …

What you measure and reward gets done, so start rewarding managers for great hiring results. Article Descriptors| Recruiting /Manager Incentives – Benefits – Implementation Tips – 4 Min Read Managers Are The Biggest Recruiting Roadblock BCG research found that, of all HR activities, recruiting has the highest impact on corporate …

It’s the most powerful hiring tool because of its double impact on candidate assessment and selling. Peer interviews are also easy to implement because the concept is easy to understand and requires no approvals or out-of-pocket expenditures. Article Descriptors| Recruiting / Peer Interviews – It’s Many Advantages – 5 min …

Compared to just listing dry company benefits, seeing “what’s in it for me” is extremely powerful from a candidate’s perspective.  Article Descriptors| recruiting/messaging from the candidate perspective – How to – 4 min read The “What’s In It For Me” Messaging Approach Explained When attempting to sell a product, service, …

Google found that 90% of a team’s value comes from the top 10%. So, recruit this amazing 10%. A Think Piece – encouraging you to hire those who are defined by their work.  What Is An “Amazing Employee” (AE) Reviewing my long talent management career, I quickly remember the handful …