During this pandemic, many “hidden gems” of talent can be found among employees in the retail and hospitality industries. In fact, it’s an amazing once-in-a-lifetime recruiting opportunity.
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How Recruiting Won The Super Bowl By Targeting “Wrong Fit Candidates”
Credit recruiting with winning the Super Bowl because every Tampa point was scored by recently recruited players plucked from “wrong fit” situations. Yes, each of the 5 Buccaneer players involved in scoring every winning team point during Super Bowl LV. Surprisingly, each individual was recently released from their previous teams …
Read More »Interviewed by Los Angeles Times Reporter – Allegations against Angels’ Mickey Callaway prompt scrutiny of MLB hiring practices
By Mike Digiovanna, Allegations against Angels’ Mickey Callaway prompt scrutiny of MLB hiring practices “It makes you look negligent,” said Dr. John Sullivan, a retired San Francisco State professor of management who has advised numerous Silicon Valley companies, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, on how to vet candidates for past …
Read More »This Common Recruiting Approach May Mean Jail Time – An Alert
If you’re one of many firms that have used no-poach recruiting agreements, realize that jail time may be in your future. Last month, many were shocked when they learned that, on top of the millions in civil penalties historically levied against firms like Google, Apple, Intel, and Pixar, three Texas …
Read More »Recruiting Lessons From The Super Bowl
Examining how Super Bowl teams recruit will provide corporate leaders with valuable lessons on how to improve their recruiting. The first is avoiding candidate generalizations. Yes, many of the candidate generalizations routinely made by hiring managers covering age, experience, and college backgrounds would be laughed at by NFL recruiters. For …
Read More »Convincing Your Employees To Take The COVID Vaccine – An Idea Checklist
There may be no hotter topic among executives and HR staff today than how to ensure that each of your employees is quickly vaccinated for COVID-19.
Read More »Why Your Diversity Results Stink… Explained In 10 Quick Bullet Points
Celebrating MLK day, unfortunately, also reminds many of their company’s continually disappointing diversity results.
Read More »Assessing Resilience – A Quick Guide For Accurately Assessing Candidates
Company’s facing continuous volatility may need to depend on successfully hiring resilient candidates for survival.
Read More »Is Your Recruiting Function Data-Driven? – Use This Quick Scorecard
A survey of the top 10 elite talent management firms found that their #1 investment area is to be data-driven.
Read More »Surprising Talent Management Predictions For 2021
In addition to the obvious 2021 talent trends related to Covid, remote work, diversity, etc., plan on changes in other off the radar talent areas. Here are 10 quick predictions in areas that are often not even considered by HR and management leaders. HR’s shift toward paternalism will backfire. There …
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Hire Your Customers – The Top Recruiting Source In Retail (Target this often-ignored talent pool)
If you recruit in retail or service industries, a top source should be your customers …
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Alert – Those Great Interview Answers May Be Generated By AI (Identifying “AI boosted” interview answers)
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Stop Painful New-Hire Turnover – By Identifying Candidates That Will Quit (A checklist for screening out flight-risks)
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Hire The Not-Yet-Promotable… And Improve Internal Movement (Hiring for this and the next job)
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The Dumbest Reasons For Rejecting Job Applicants (Questionable rejection factors that hurt hiring results)