The ultimate goal of any business function should be to have a direct and measurable impact on their company’s bottom line and corporate strategic goals. Having a direct and visible impact on bottom-line results will make your team proud. But it will also get you more executive support and funding. …
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Walking Employees Downstream Improves Retention, Productivity, Recruiting, and Engagement (Parts 1 & 2)
The Powerful Impacts From Showing Employees That Their Work Is Meaningful Forget engagement survey results. If you really want to kickstart actual hands-on commitment, “walk employees downstream” to see their work’s impact. Walk employees downstream is a tool whose goal is to increase the emotional connection between an employee and …
Read More »Why You Can’t Get an Interview – Explained Using Job-Search Science Data
Ponder this: Two resumes are received, one with 58% of the job requirements and another that meets 100%, but the 58% resume gets the interview. Yes, it’s completely illogical. Job-search science data from TalentWorks reveals that you are just “as likely to get an interview matching 50% of requirements as …
Read More »Happy New Year to Recruiters, Now Prepare for the Downturn
Almost every strategy and the recruiting tool that is currently used must “shift” when the unemployment rate rises and the power shifts away from the candidate and back to the employer. Even if you don’t know precisely when a downturn will occur, there are multiple benefits tied to preparing for one in advance with a “downturn in recruiting plan.”
Read More »Jim D’Amico — A Profile of an Exceptional Corporate Recruiting Leader, Part 1
Note: this two-part article is part of my continuing series of profiles on exceptional corporate recruiting leaders. The first time I met Jim D’Amico, he was explaining how he convinced his healthcare CEO to let him try just about anything in recruiting, as long as he could show a positive …
Read More »Slow Hiring Is Damaging Your Firm and Here Are 20 Reasons Why
Few realize that increasing your hiring speed often has the second-largest impact on hiring results (after referral hires). Most track time to fill, but few recruiting leaders calculate the high correlation between your hiring speed for top talent and their resulting on-the-job performance after they become a new hire. To …
Read More »Stop Losing Top Candidates to Slow Hiring by Fixing These 8 Speedbumps
The Top Causes of Unnecessarily Slow Hiring Whenever you are focusing on hiring high-demand top performers and innovators in a highly competitive market, there may literally be no factor that damages your recruiting results more than slow hiring. Intuitively, most organizations and individuals think that taking your time to gather …
Read More »Top 7 Reasons Why Recruiting AI Talent Is Critical To Your Firm’s Success
It’s hard to find a business or technology publication these days that don’t have an article covering the upcoming dominance of artificial intelligence or its more advanced cousin, machine learning. And artificial intelligence is even beginning to make inroads into the operations of the recruiting function itself. But unfortunately, many …
Read More »End Your Seasonal Recruiting Problems — The Top 10 Proven Solutions
Why You Are Losing “The War For Seasonal Talent” Explained Managers who must recruit seasonal staff need to wake up and realize that the recruiting landscape has changed. Today’s managers must learn that recruiting is now much more difficult. In times of extremely low unemployment, individuals looking for seasonal work …
Read More »Need Women Applicants? Why Micro-targeting Women Triggers More to Apply
Understanding Why Providing “the Right Information” Causes Women to Apply Let’s get right to the point. HR is way too often risk averse, it is not transparent, and withholds valuable information that would cause many more women applicants to apply immediately. In addition, talent acquisition, unfortunately, frequently “lumps” all diversity …
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