As seen on TLNT (April 14, 2017). By now, most of us have seen the shocking video where United Airlines had an unwilling 69-year-old passenger dragged off of one of their airplanes. Many are also aware that United also recently refused to let two teenage girls fly because they were wearing …
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7 Metrics That the Most Data-Savvy Recruiting Teams Are Tracking
As seen on LinkedIn Talent Blog (April 18, 2017). If you closely research (as I have) the top five global companies with the highest market value (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook) you’ll realize that they all have three things in common. First, they are all serial-innovation firms. Second, they …
Read More »Facing A Shortage Of Applicants? — Losing Applicants Explained With 5 Ugly Numbers
As seen on ERE Media (April 17, 2017). It’s an almost universal complaint across both corporations and small businesses around the world. “We aren’t getting enough applicants and it is hurting our business.” This shortage of applications is probably occurring despite the fact that your corporation is well known and …
Read More »Why Candidates Are Dropping Out of Your Hiring Process
As seen on Yello (March 31, 2017) by Tracy Kelly. HR industry thought leader and professor of management at San Francisco State University, Dr. John Sullivan, says the cost to candidate withdrawal is real; the lost investment is a drain on team resources. Your online application is too complicated Sullivan …
Read More »Ouch, 50% Of New Hires Fail! 6 Ugly Numbers Revealing Recruiting’s Dirty Little Secret
As seen on ERE Media (April 10, 2017). Large corporations have thousands of business processes, but I doubt that you’ve ever heard of a single process that has a 50 percent failure rate. So your firm’s executives will be shocked to learn that the recruiting process (the HR process …
Read More »Frustrated With Your Recruiting Results? Ask New Hires ‘What Worked’
As seen on ERE Media (April 5, 2017). It’s a basic law for business process improvement. When your process is completed, you survey your users to find out what worked and what didn’t work. In recruiting, it turns out that identifying “what worked” is the second-most impactful of all internally …
Read More »Don’t Pass on Game Changer Candidates Who Are Still Rookies
A white paper for distribution to talent acquisition leaders and other customers of College Recruiter. Professional sports lead the way in recruiting “game changer” candidates that are still untried rookies, while in the corporate world; most of the inexperienced are simply passed over. If you’re not familiar with the term …
Read More »Job Interviews Have Become Predictable and Ineffective – Here Are 10 Ways to Change That
As seen on LinkedIn (March 28, 2017). Interviewing is a well-established component of hiring that you have probably used for years without much change. But, now that the use of data and technology has begun to permeate recruiting, every aspect of interviewing is undergoing close examination and change. It’s …
Read More »Candidate Coaching Improves Hiring Results — So Stop Losing Candidates For Preventable Reasons
As seen on ERE Media (March 27, 2017). If you are failing to coach your candidates prior to their interview, you may be unnecessarily losing as many as 20 percent of your qualified candidates simply for trivial reasons. Candidate coaching is where a corporate recruiter provides pre-interview guidance to qualified …
Read More »Innovation Is Now The #1 Business Driver, So IBM Abruptly Drops Remote Work
As seen on ERE Media (March 20, 2017). If innovation is essential to your firm’s success … learn the value of “coming to work” IBM is a firm that for years has been a highly visible public champion of remote work. So it was a shock to many that IBM …
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The Costliest Failure In Recruiting – “Settling” For The Number 2 Candidate
You won’t hire a number 2 candidate for a critical job after you discover the …
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Competitor Talent Mapping – A Powerful Recruiting Tool That No One Uses (Despite its numerous benefits)
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Strategic Omissions – High Impact Things That HR Should Be Doing (But Isn’t)
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A Holiday Opportunity… To Cherry Pick Top Talent (Learn why there’s a surplus of talent and little competition)
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