Compared to the extremely high levels of creativity and innovation that are found in marketing and product branding, the sourcing aspect of corporate recruiting would have to be given a grade of “F” when it comes to creativity and trying new sources. Using the benchmark standard, the CareerXroads annual survey …
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25 Ways That “No-recruit” Secret Agreements Can Damage Your Firm
This “think piece” is part of a series of articles I wrote to expand your thinking about strategic HR. If you haven’t seen it in the news lately, there has been an uproar over the practice of secret “no-recruit” agreements between major corporations. A significant number of notable firms including …
Read More »The Complete List of Employee Referral Program Best Practices (Part 2 of 2)
In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the first 35 of 70 exceptional employee referral program features. This episode continues with 36-70 and covers features related to program responsiveness, communications, special needs/populations, technology, and process management. V. Program Responsiveness Features Being responsive to those who refer and the referrals …
Read More »The Complete List of Employee Referral Program Best Practices (Part 1 of 2)
I strive to be the world’s foremost champion of employee referral programs. As a thought leader in this field for more than 20 years, I have had the opportunity to assess and research hundreds of corporate ERPs, and most are pretty dull. Too many organizations task management of the program to …
Read More »Beer, Food, And Furniture: The Casino Approach to Talent Management
Talent managers are increasingly borrowing from the practices of casinos, which have a well-earned reputation for effectively attracting, engaging, retaining, and directing the behavior of their customers. Casino customers lose money, spend hours engaged, and in most cases leave satisfied and eager to return. The same design principles that keep …
Read More »20 Reasons Why Weak Managers Never Hire A-level Talent
Talent acquisition functions spend thousands of hours and millions of dollars designing processes to hire top performers, innovators, and game changers. Unfortunately few of those dollars or hours are spent fixing the biggest roadblock in recruiting A-level talent: weak hiring managers. Everyone seems to intuitively know that managers are the …
Read More »Understanding the Changing Economics of the Talent Marketplace
CHANGES IN THE BUSINESS WORLD THAT IMPACT TALENT NEEDS There have been several changes in the business environment in the last few years that fundamentally altered the way in which firms compete. In fact, what has happened is that "change" itself has changed. Today the business environment is changing faster …
Read More »Effective Approaches for Attracting Competitors’ Employees to Your Firm
As the global war for talent continues to manifest itself in an ever-increasing manner of ways, a nasty practice left over from an era long ago continues to handcuff recruiting organizations around the world. The practice we speak of is the gentlemen’s agreement made between two organizations not to poach …
Read More »Top Places to Work Lists Are Valuable for both Branding and Poaching!
It’s official. Google is the #1 Best Place to Work in America according to Fortune Magazine. If you haven’t yet read this issue of Fortune, you should. It’s a powerful listing of what can be done by corporations in order to make their workplaces more exciting. It’s also important to realize that …
Read More »What Is Your Google Rep? Managing Your Online Brand
Product Brands This is the reputation or image afforded a product by potential consumers of that product. Examples include Scotch Tape and Post-it Notes. Both are well-known products despite the fact that few people know who makes them (3M). Organizational Brands This group of brands represents the image afforded to …
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