What is HR’s future? It will follow other business functions. Yes, it’s an internal version of the “follow-the-leader pattern.” In any large corporation, the fastest-changing business functions move first by adopting a new practice. Eventually, 2 to 3 years later, second-mover functions like HR adopt their version of the same …

Counting on coincidentally open jobs hurts recruiting.

With the continuous increase in candidate lying, reference-check fraud, AI-generated reference responses, and the increasing unwillingness of companies to provide any negative work-history information, it now means receiving a positive workplace reference that used to predict a candidate would become a good employee no longer predicts that!  Because of the …

How Your Flawed Reference Checking Process Is Causing Numerous Bad Hires Part 1 Cheating on reference checks is at an all-time high. To slow this trend, this article provides a scannable list of the problems that cause flawed reference-checking processes to produce a significant number of bad or failed hires. …

Pick one: reference checks suck, or they are the perfect scam. Even though everyone uses them, there is no corporate evidence that reference checks identify great hires or that they screen out weak candidates. So it’s important to pay attention to the few public critics of this reference-checking process. More …

Cheating on reference checks is at an all-time high. To slow this trend, this article provides a scannable list of the problems that cause flawed reference-checking processes to produce a significant number of bad or failed hires. The reference-checking process in most businesses and corporations needs immediate attention. After years …

“Recruiting is just sales with a crummy budget.” So why haven’t recruiting leaders learned a lesson about incentives from their company’s sales function? Because sales leaders consistently operate under the proven idiom of “what you reward gets done.” So at least to me, everyone in the talent world should be …

I never had TV-hiring tips until Freddy was labeled as the best worker in his industry. Like most recruiters, I haven’t found TV shows to be a great source of hiring tips, until one episode of Deadliest Catch (a crab fishing documentary). It was clear that deckhand Freddy Maugatai was …

LeBron was recently recruited using a dream job offer, where the money offered him clearly came last in importance. LeBron took a whopping $97 million pay cut over two seasons to end his career with a dream job that included job factors that were clearly personalized to his current needs. …

CEOs track every battle with competitors, except recruiting!  Yes, in my experience, CEOs are competitive. (Let me correct that: they are fiercely competitive.) And they would likely go off in a rant if they heard that they lost a head-to-head recruiting battle against one of their industry’s competitors. But they …

Kathleen wraps up her conversation with Dr. John Sullivan, the globally known HR thought-leader who has been dubbed the “Michael Jordan of Hiring.” In part two, John shares why he’s not a big fan of resumes, what recruiters can look for to determine a candidate’s loyalty and resilience, and how long he expects the current talent shortage to last.