Recruiting Tools

The interview phase has the highest candidate dropout rate (25%) of any hiring step. Because only a small percentage of candidates qualify for the interview phase, when interview-level candidates drop out, you are clearly losing the cream of your applicant pool. The same research reveals the impact that your interview …

When your conservative recruiting can’t compete with $100M sign-ons, your aggressiveness must increase. This Is A Think Piece – whose goal is to encourage you to scrutinize the current level of aggressiveness in your recruiting strategy.  If You Haven’t Noticed, “Outrageous Recruiting” (OR) Is Back If you were involved in …

Few have what it takes to qualify as a strategic recruiter. One of the actions, for example, is developing your own distinctive recruiting approach that provides your company with a measurable competitive advantage over your top talent competitors. Do you meet the requirements? Well, it’s not enough to just assume …

Employed candidates are the most valuable because their skills and experience are up-to-date. But because they are busy working, employed candidates usually have the highest “didn’t complete” rate among all interviewees. This checklist is intended to be used as a tool for dramatically improving your interview completion rate, especially among …

Recruiters are your best friend during hiring, but most disappear after you accept. But “extended recruiting” changes that. Ending The Recruiting Process Early Is A Costly Mistake Before the recruiting process even begins, everyone involved needs to realize that this process shouldn’t end when the new hire starts their new job. …

Surprisingly, August had the most jobseekers, while July and June ranked #3 and #4. Yes, it’s true. Over the last 12 months, if you wanted to recruit during the time period that had the largest pool of unemployed US jobseekers, you would have recruited during the summer months (BLS). Timing …

Remember, not saying thanks is bad, but an insincere thank-you will be a complete candidate turnoff. Frequently Thank Your Candidates Because They Are Investors In Your Company Yes, hiring managers should periodically offer personalized thank-you’s to every candidate. As recruiting icon Kevin Wheeler noted, as far back as 2002, each …

46% of new hires fail, yet hiring managers are painfully slow in firing their hiring failures. It has happened to almost everyone involved in hiring. Immediately after a new hire in a key position starts, everyone notices they are struggling and acting quite differently than they did throughout your hiring …

AI and Quantum Computing tech leaders are worth their weight in gold, but they can be easy to offend. Many of your recruiting targets will not be active job seekers, which requires a different approach. Be aware that you may literally anger these leaders simply by calling them “a candidate.”  …

I estimate that an interview scoresheet can boost your hiring results by 40%. This amazing level of improvement is possible because interviewing is by far the most heavily weighted and impactful of all candidate assessment steps. This means that any major mistake during the interview process will severely reduce the …