by Trena Luong and John Sullivan In case you haven’t noticed, the world of corporate recruiting has become so intense that formerly rare aggressive and ultra-bold recruiting practices are now becoming mainstream. Of course as a professional, you know that you have an obligation to keep up with the latest …
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End the Shortage — Recruit STEM Women Who Are Working at Your Competitors
I almost broke out laughing when I came across an article in Fast Company magazine entitled Why You Can’t Find Women Engineers. This title reflects a common misconception among business executives about the shortage of technically qualified women at their firms. This often-repeated “shortage statement” is only partially true, and if you believe …
Read More »Chicago Breakfast event: Strategies on Successful Talent Management and Succession Planning
You are cordially invited to attend an exclusive breakfast event, Strategies on Successful Talent Management and Succession Planning for Mid-Sized Companies, on July 24, 2014. A distinguished panel of experts will discuss the top talent management and acquisition strategies that are key to succession planning for middle-market companies. This event is open to …
Read More »Always Open ‘Evergreen Jobs’ Can Improve Your Chances of Recruiting Top Talent
As the war for talent continues, it’s time for recruiting leaders and hiring managers to shift to more creative and innovative recruiting solutions. A bold approach that I have been recommending since 1999 is the creation of “evergreen jobs.” Simply put, these are the one or two most critical corporate …
Read More »Diversity Recruiting – What’s Wrong with it? Pretty Much Everything (Part 1 & 2 of 2)
In case you missed it, there was a great deal of publicity generated recently when Google’s Laszlo Bock openly announced Google’s diversity numbers. Even Google was disappointed in them, but that shouldn’t be a surprise. Almost every major corporation struggles with meeting their diversity goals as a result of a poorly …
Read More »[Webinar] Bold Actions That Separate True Recruiting Leaders From Managers of Recruiting
Is your conservative approach to recruiting hurting your results? The 3 goals for this webinar: Be a provocateur… and to aggressively challenge your thinking.To highlight the differences between traditional recruiting managers and bold recruiting leaders.To provide you with numerous examples of unique and bold recruiting practices. Print Friendly
Read More »Do a Snapshot Assessment of Your Talent Function With These Powerful Business Impact Metrics
In a world where it’s easy to get a “snapshot assessment” of your personal physical health or your organization’s financial or IT security effectiveness, what could be more valuable than an easy-to-conduct executive level “snapshot assessment” of talent management and HR? Unfortunately I have found that most in HR are …
Read More »Examining Zappos’s ‘No Job Postings’ Recruiting Approach — Innovation or Craziness?
The new recruiting “no job postings” website of Zappos is truly unique. First off, you have to give the Zappos team credit for eliminating anything in recruiting, because we have a long history in recruiting of adding but never subtracting approaches. The new talent community declares the end to job postings and …
Read More »Stop Your Firm’s Brain Drain – Convincing Innovators to Choose an Established Firm Over a Startup
There is an innovator brain drain going on. The drain is away from larger established firms, which desperately need more innovators, and toward startup firms, which are successfully recruiting a disproportionately high percentage of these prized innovators. It doesn’t matter whether your corporation is trying to hire experienced talent or recent …
Read More »Why Boomerang Rehire Programs Rank #2 in Producing High-quality Hires
Other than referrals from your top-performing employees, it’s hard to find a corporate recruiting source with a higher quality of hire (i.e. on-the-job performance) and a higher ROI than boomerang rehire programs. If you’re not familiar with the term, a “boomerang rehire” is a former top-performing employee who you rehire …
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When A Loyal Employee Departs – Get Their Help In Finding A Replacement (Using departing employee referrals)
Remember that you felt guilty when, as a highly loyal employee, circumstances forced you to …
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The Best Hires… Are Passionate About Working For Your Company (Checklist for spotting passionate candidates)
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Gas Prices, TSA Resignations & Affordability Create A Sudden Recruiting Opportunity (Take advantage of talent surges)
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The Prediction Market – And Its Surprise Impacts On HR (Consider this a warning)
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Find Hidden Talent Based On Their Work – Just Like You’d Find An Unknown Artist
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