Recruiting leaders are constantly looking for strategic opportunities, which admittedly are rare in this progressive field. There is only one big missed opportunity in strategic recruiting and that is … harnessing consumer data to direct source passive prospects. Unless you have adapted a big data approach to recruiting, you will undoubtedly …
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July 24, 2014 Chicago breakfast event
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 Print Friendly
Read More »15 Ultra-bold Recruiting Practices — Are You Falling Behind Your Competitors?
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 …
Read More »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 …
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Corporate Recruiters – Why Aren’t You Rewarded For Exceptional Results?
“Recruiting is just sales with a crummy budget.” So why haven’t recruiting leaders learned a …
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It’s Easier Than You Think… To Name The Best Employee In Your Industry (A recruiting tip from “Deadliest Catch”)
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