Sourcing

You may lose up to 40% of your top candidates when you use flawed candidate assessment tools. You might be surprised to learn that many managers worldwide routinely use assessment approaches that, even on the surface, appear silly. For example, Japanese hiring managers have been known to screen out candidates …

Hire one key person from a competitor’s team and instantly gain all of their operational knowledge (i.e., non-product secrets). Yes, Team-level Competitor Recruiting is a targeted recruiting practice (some mistakenly call it poaching) that operates at the team level. This approach is designed to hire one key person away from …

70% of employees withhold their best performance, and half of those sleepwalk through each workday (Gallup research). “It seems like nobody wants to work these days.”   Yes, this now-famous Kim Kardashian quote has recently been supported by Gallup research that focused on underperforming employees. So if your business situation requires …

During this “forever talent shortage,” after literally everything has failed, add sign-on bonuses to your recruiting mix. It is the only recruiting solution with enough power (with the possible exception of a data-driven employee referral program) to dramatically improve your recruiting results. In my view, it’s time for smart corporate …

Only 5% of surveyed recruiters say that certifications can replace college degrees in all jobs. And only 48 % agree that they can replace college degrees in at least some jobs. The latest disruption recruiting leaders now face is the growing emphasis on certifications over college degrees. A recent survey …

Recently updated research on sourcing once again shows that it remains the top challenge for TA. And unfortunately, the reappearance of this problem in the research means that weak sourcing has been the top TA problem for at least four years running. Not a pretty picture, and something that simply …

TA must shift from its “can’t we all get along mentality” to an aggressive competitor mentality. This shift must occur because both the need for talent and the competition for it (in critical areas like AI) are now becoming the #1 business success factor. A factor that’s more critical than …

Tired of weak results? Blame cautious recruiters that won’t try more aggressive recruiting tools. Understanding Why Extreme Recruiting Approaches Are Necessary  One of the primary reasons why most hiring managers have long been frustrated with the number of top candidates that they are receiving. This is because risk-averse recruiters (most …

Not seeing enough strong applicants? Blame screeners that are overly focused on finding weaknesses. Yes, the #1 screening error in most organizations occurs when your screeners are exclusively focused on “screening out” all resumes that contain even a single weakness or flaw. During their “hunt for weaknesses,” these screeners purposely …

As seen on Reworked.co by Lauren Dixon How to Hire Again When it does come time to hire for a previously eliminated role, legal questions are the first to address.Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) suggests to wait at least six months since the layoff. If “the former employee finds …