Note: This “think piece” is designed to stimulate your thinking on remote work and how it dramatically changes the recruiting competition in every country. Every global recruiting giant offering remote work jobs is now a serious competitor in every previously local job opening. It’s no exaggeration to say that adding …
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December: ’Tis the Season to Recruit When the Competition Is Low
Need an edge in your competition for talent? Think December, when there may be 35% fewer job postings trying to attract the normal volume of jobseekers. If you’ve ever gambled in Las Vegas, you would know that when you face great odds like these, you need to be all in. …
Read More »Recruiting’s Missed Strategic Opportunity — Competitive Intelligence Gathering
Not having a competitive intelligence (a.k.a. CI) gathering process is a missed opportunity for recruiting to increase its strategic contribution and its direct business impacts.
Read More »Managers Are Hoarding Talent: A Hidden Problem That’s Likely Hurting Your Firm
Expediting the transfer of employees among diverse business units allows a firm to develop and retain employees, while simultaneously increasing the cross-pollenization of ideas and the transfer of best practices. Unfortunately, I find that executives at every large organization I have visited consistently complain that this beneficial movement simply doesn’t …
Read More »How Uber Destroyed Its Employer Brand — Is It Time To Blow Up HR Again?
As seen on ERE Media (February 24, 2017) A powerful employer brand is essential at any firm that requires strong recruiting and retention. However, a great employer brand is especially critical in a growing company that is considering an IPO. And if you look at the last decade, it’s …
Read More »8 Things You Need to Fix to Increase Employee Retention
As on LinkedIn Talent Blog. Recently, the Department of Labor reported that turnover is now at its highest level since 2008. And yet, many companies are doing very little to combat this problem. Why? Because a lot of executives don’t realize the tremendous cost of turnover: (e.g. 2X salary costs times losing …
Read More »You Can’t Calculate Employer Branding’s ROI if You Omit Its Negative Impacts
Understanding the Top 10 Problems Associated With Having a Strong Employer Brand There are only two long-term strategic recruiting approaches: employer brand building, and talent pipelining. Of the two options, employer brand-building is by far the most powerful. In fact, it was ranked by BCG as No. 4 highest in revenue and …
Read More »Want Diversity? Counter Unconscious Biases That Limit Your Diversity Recruiting
Other than the recent conscious discrimination that has seemingly been encouraged by Donald Trump, most discrimination in modern times is extremely subtle and often unconscious. And although unconscious bias training is all the rage, it is not sufficient on its own to increase diversity recruiting. As a result, if you …
Read More »The Future Of Predictive Analytics – The Next Generation of Talent Metrics to Consider
A comprehensive list of current and future predictive talent metrics The use of predictive analytics is a hot issue and a developing trend in talent management. But unfortunately as a longtime thought leader in the area, most of the current prediction efforts are extremely shallow. And as a result, they …
Read More »There Is Little Recruiting Competition During December … So Be Bold and Seize a Great Opportunity
Between Thanksgiving and the rest of the year in the Silicon Valley and in many other geographic areas around the U.S., it is mostly a dead period for recruiting. But recruiting leaders should realize that failing to recruit during this period is a huge missed opportunity, simply because the recruiting …
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