A recent survey of global CEOs and board chairmen was conducted by the prestigious Conference Board, and it concluded once again that human capital is the top challenge that they face. While some in talent management and HR might feel honored to be at the top of the CEO’s watch list, …
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10 Powerful Ways That HR Can WOW A CEO By Producing Unambiguous Business Impacts If you really want HR to become a corporate hero, there is no quicker or more impactful way than to impress your CEO. Now you may be thinking that it’s not possible for HR or any …
Read More »6 Reasons Your Employee Retention Efforts Are Failing, and What You Can Do About It
As seen on LinkedIn Talent Blog. The Department of Labor reports that employee turnover is now at its highest level since 2008. However, it’s a fact that most corporations spend more time on product inventory turnover than they do on employee turnover, even though employee turnover often has a much …
Read More »Text-Interviewing — The Next Big Thing in Recruiting?
People love texting. In fact, texting is the most widely-used app on a smartphone, “with 97 percent of Americans using it at least once a day.” And among the age group that recruiters often target (18 – 29), 100 percent of those surveyed use texting. In addition, the odds of a …
Read More »Tips for Small-Business Financing – At A Glance
As seen on The Wall Street Journal. From impressing investors to ensuring that your whole staff is aligned with your fundraising efforts, the keys to keeping small businesses funded are covered in this collection of recent Experts columns The Experts delved into issues such as where to find investors and …
Read More »Need Innovators? Recruit Those Who See the Glass as Half Empty … and Leaking
Corporate employees can be classified into two categories. The majority of employees must be classified as “the glass is half full” people, who when they look at an existing process or product, they assume that everything is fine. However, a handful of employees can be classified as “the glass is …
Read More »Lies, Deception And Gut Feelings … No Wonder Hiring Fails Half The Time
he Top 7 Reasons Why Your Process Continuously Produces Hiring Failures Unexplainably, few in corporate recruiting attempt to measure the failure rate of new hires from their external hiring processes. However, those who have done the research (i.e. Harvard Business School, The Corporate Leadership Council, and LeadershipIQ) have found that the …
Read More »Stop The Insanity: You’ll *Never* Reach Diversity Goals Until You Shift To A Data-Driven Approach
If you have direct access to recruiting leaders like I do, you would quickly learn that upward of 95 percent of large corporate diversity recruiting efforts routinely fail to meet their modest diversity goals. In fact, the EEOC reports that diversity employee representation percentages at corporations have barely budged since 1985. …
Read More »You Can’t Calculate Employer Branding’s ROI if You Omit Its Negative Impacts
Understanding the Top 10 Problems Associated With Having a Strong Employer Brand There are only two long-term strategic recruiting approaches: employer brand building, and talent pipelining. Of the two options, employer brand-building is by far the most powerful. In fact, it was ranked by BCG as No. 4 highest in revenue and …
Read More »[SLIDES] HOW HR CAN INFLUENCE and WOW THEIR CEO
HR has a high business impact, but it gets a significantly reduced budget because it fails to target and impress the CEO. Loading… Taking too long? Reload document | Open in new tab Download Print Friendly
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When A Loyal Employee Departs – Get Their Help In Finding A Replacement (Using departing employee referrals)
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Find Hidden Talent Based On Their Work – Just Like You’d Find An Unknown Artist
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