With an abundance of candidates and little competition, the best actively recruit during December. Corporate sales or marketing leaders will quickly tell you about the many advantages of taking action when the competition is low. But they would be puzzled to learn that the highest volume of recruiting usually occurs during …
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Recruiting Opportunity Of The Decade – Target Anxious Federal Employees (Who might leave because of pending position and budget cuts)
Beat your talent competitors by being the first to implement a federal employee recruitment program. And take advantage of the huge federal employee exodus that is just beginning (in response to the “efficiency committee’s” announced massive position cuts). Be grateful that this mass influx of available talent is coming after …
Read More »Turn Your Boring Job Posts Into Talent Magnets – Using Advertising Science (The complete guide to compelling job posts)
Job posts have an astonishing 90% failure rate because less than 10% of those who view a post actually apply. This failure rate is also extremely expensive. Because of its low success rate, some functions have to spend up to 60% of their recruiting budget on job postings alone. So, …
Read More »Increase Applications – Also Post Your Jobs On Frequently Visited Online Sites (In addition to placing them on job boards)
Post jobs on sites that your top employees visit because top candidates likely visit them, too. There is so much overlap in the actions of your top employees and top recruiting targets. That means that if you know the Internet, information, and learning sites that your current employees visit regularly …
Read More »Recruiting Videos – Reveal The Excitement & Passion In Your Team (Team-level smartphone videos can boost applications by 34%)
Stop keeping the excitement in your team a secret by revealing it in smartphone recruiting videos. Add them because these team-generated videos can increase your job applications by as much as one-third. These informal videos have such a significant impact. For the first time, they allow outsiders to actually “feel …
Read More »Reference Checking – Simple Steps For Making Yours Better (The complete guide to accurate reference checking)
If you can’t afford to hire a single candidate who has lied about their experience or credentials, you must first realize that the standard reference-checking process designed to catch those resume lies ranks painfully low (#11) in predicting whether a candidate will perform well on the job. Unfortunately, your current …
Read More »The Best External Sourcing Channel – Association Officers (Ask industry association officers for names)
Professional association officers know emerging industry-wide talent better than anyone. This extensive talent knowledge is accessible to them because almost every eager new hire entering an industry will join the top association. Association officers pride themselves on knowing and building relationships with all up-and-coming members (some openly brag about their …
Read More »Stop Hiring Candidates “You’d Like To Have A Beer With” (And other dinosaur recruiting practices to stop using)
After 25 years as a TA leader, I admit that we use many recruiting practices that are simply silly. I call them “dinosaur recruiting practices” because they are now obsolete and should be extinct. But they aren’t, and they are still commonly used. For a recruiting practice to reach “dinosaur …
Read More »Improve Your Interviews With Five Easy Additions (And identify top candidates faster)
Unstructured interviews don’t predict very well, so add a little structure in 5 key areas. It’s a fact that interviews fail to select the best candidate most of the time. 91% of the factors that would identify the top candidate are not even covered during interviews. Five Easy To Implement, …
Read More »Invited Open Houses – The Best Way To Sell Exceptional Candidates (They work by involving the entire team in the selling effort)
The best candidates will only join a great team, and open houses excel at revealing why a team is amazing. They sell candidates on the team’s strengths even better than CEO calls and peer interviews. The Primary Goal Is To Sell The Attendees On The Team In today’s competitive talent …
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