Should You Hire an Employee, a Robot or an Algorithm? You have been warned: a robot is about to take not just your job, but most jobs! Few in talent management or HR are prepared for the robot takeover, and in most cases, the issue is completely absent from the …
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The Key Operational Components Of An Effective Talent Pipeline Part 3 of 3
Let’s face reality: most sourcing efforts are extremely rushed. As a result, there is a high probability that in key jobs, your sourcing effort will completely miss a significant number of high-quality external prospects. If you instead want to avoid missing a single top prospect, a superior approach is to …
Read More »The Many Benefits From A Talent Pipeline – And How It Improves Quality Of Hire Part 2 of 3
If you’re looking for a powerful strategic recruiting approach that has powerful long-term impacts, you really only have two choices: employer branding, and a “recruiting talent pipeline.” While almost every major corporation is investing heavily in building their employer brand, it’s quite rare for one to actually have a high-performing …
Read More »A ‘Most-Wanted List’ — A Forward-Looking Way To Hire Exceptional Talent
One of the most frequent questions that I get is, “What are the best practices in recruiting?” Well, one best practice that always appears near the top of my list is developing a “most wanted list.” Unfortunately, this approach is rare in the corporate world, where 100 percent of all …
Read More »Pinterest Produces Amazing Diversity Results … Using Proactive Targeted Referrals
By focusing on one type of diversity referral program, within six weeks a firm can dramatically turn around its diversity recruiting … to the point of, for engineering jobs, “a 55-fold increase in the percentage of candidates from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds” and a “24 percent increase in women applicants.” Well, these dramatic …
Read More »Candidate Research — The Critical Information That You Must Know About Your Recruiting Targets
It’s a sad fact that most of what we know about those who we are trying to hire (recruiting prospects and candidates) is anecdotal and historical. At the same time, both the job search process and candidate expectations are changing at an incredibly rapid rate. These changes are a result of …
Read More »The Benefits of a ‘Someday I Might Want to Work There’ Talent Community
Engaging those who someday might want to work at your firm We’ve all done it. At one time or another after hearing about the best practices or using the products of a firm that we admire, we have thought to ourselves “someday I might like to work there. It makes sense …
Read More »Instantly Improve Diversity Recruiting Results With a Bonus for Diversity Referrals
By far, the most frequently asked question is “What single best practice has the most dramatic impact on diversity recruiting results?”
Read More »There Is No Talent or Skills Shortage if You Can Recruit Talent Away From Your Competitors
Recruiting is just like fishing. You may think that there is a shortage of fish, when the real problem is where you fish and what bait you use! I simply have to laugh when I hear CEOs and executives complain about the talent or skill shortages that their firm faces. …
Read More »Isn’t LeBron Amazing? Imagine the Impact of Hiring a Similar ‘Game Changer’ Into Your Firm
Corporate executives don’t have to be sports experts to realize the incredible value that LeBron James has added to the Cleveland Cavalier NBA team in a single year. Consider these amazing impacts since his hiring. The value of the team went up an astonishing 78 percent ($400 million); its operating …
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