A) Negative impacts on revenue and costs Obviously, not expanding your staff or keeping open positions vacant can save payroll dollars in the short term. However, such savings may actually present a false reality because freezes have many other unintended consequences that CFOs often fail to account for: Lost revenue. …
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Managing Recruiting During an Economic Downturn: The Top 10 Action Steps to Take
The Top 10 Advantages of Recruiting During Tough Times It’s quite common during periods of economic turmoil for CFOs to assume and declare that robust recruiting functions will not be necessary due to a surplus of talent becoming available as more and more firms engage in layoffs, consolidations, and the …
Read More »Succession Planning: Why Recruiting Needs to Focus on Internal Movement (Part 1 of 2)
What is Succession Planning? Organizations use succession planning to help mitigate the risk of a vacancy occurring in key management and leadership roles that could impact the organization’s ability to perform. In more strategic organizations, the scope of succession planning is expanded to include high-impact and mission-critical roles throughout the …
Read More »Succession Planning: Why Recruiting Needs to Focus on Internal Movement (Part 2 of 2)
Part B: Plan Output or Success Measures Group 3 – Output measures of plan success The best plans have goals (and measures) that cover each of these areas: Percentage of all management positions filled by internal candidates (this is the broadest measure of development success because it covers all management …
Read More »The Current State of Ill Preparedness in HR
We have all experienced irrational thinking and are all guilty of doing it from time to time, but as we prepare to move into a new year there is no greater threat facing global companies than irrational thinking in the HR function. Like many of you, we tend to contemplate …
Read More »Succession Plans – A Checklist For Measuring Their Effectiveness
Part A Measures Group 1 – Basic plan usage factors: The target audiences for a succession plan are those managers that are responsible for making promotion and lateral transfer decisions for leadership jobs that are covered by the plan. A succession plan can’t be successful if it’s not distributed, read …
Read More »Employee Referral Program Killers
Employee referral programs are the most powerful corporate recruiting tool, bar none. They can produce a high volume of quality hires who have been statistically proven to have lower rates of attrition. When designed well, they can not only be cost-effective, but they can produce one of the highest ROIs …
Read More »A Talent Opportunity Alert Process: You Should Have One
One of the most common questions I get from recruiting managers and executives is “What differentiates a world-class recruiting function from an average one?” Well, in case you didn’t know, one of the primary differentiators is the practice of “proactive recruiting.” It’s possible to categorize corporate recruiting activities into …
Read More »Retention Problems Begin During the Hiring Process
Recruiting Factors That Impact Future Retention If you're interested in reducing turnover, here are some of the hiring-related factors that impact future retention: Hiring candidates who are focused on money. Every candidate has his or her own set of motivators for taking and remaining in a job, and a significant …
Read More »What Is Your Hiring Batting Average?
I am an unabashed follower of the HR philosophy of Jack Welch, former CEO of GE. He is a proponent of a “business-like” approach to HR that emphasizes its critical role in impacting organizational results. Welch is certainly controversial in HR circles because he advocates many things that “softies” in …
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