Recruiting Tools

10 Recruiting Lessons That You Can Learn From the Super Bowl

Lesson #1 -“Minor colleges” produce some of the best players on Super Bowl teams. It’s clear from examining the player rosters that most Super Bowl players don’t come from powerhouse football colleges. Some examples include: The Star Players. The four most notable star players in the game all come from …

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Updating Your Employee Referral Program – ERE Community Q&A

ERE Community Q&A The questions proposed during the webinar covered a great many aspects of operating an employee referral program including: World-Class Program Design and Features Program Reward/Bonus Trends Diversity Impact Using Technology to Support the Employee Referral Program Specific Program Mentioned During the Webinar Questions on Program Design and …

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Develop a Friends Program to Better Sell Your Targeted Talent

A Groundbreaking Program The concept was developed in the late 1990s at Cisco Systems by Michael McNeil, whom I consider to be the father of employment branding and modern marketing-based recruiting. The program is based on the premise that everyone wishes they had “a friend” inside a firm they could …

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Recruiting Strategies — Proximity Recruiting Using a Taco Truck

You Must Do Internet and Physical Recruiting Even with the tremendous growth of Internet recruiting, not everyone is actively surfing the Internet looking for a job or combing through their email in anticipation of your generic form letter introduction. Reaching a greater percentage of the population relevant to your job …

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Recruiting With Little or No Money – Tools and Ideas to Consider

I) Recruiting Tools that Use “Other People’s Time” If you’re short on recruiting funds and on hours in the day, the best approaches to consider are those classified as “OPT” approaches that use employee time and budget resources of other departments: Recruiting at professional events. Ask your firm’s employees to …

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