This “think piece” is designed to stimulate your thoughts around the future of recruiting Forget what you’ve read about the future of recruiting because the biggest driver of change will be an integrated self-service phone app. A single integrated phone app will dominate because often today’s recruiting processes are merely …
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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 »30+ Actions For Improving Offer Acceptance Rates
Unfortunately, despite the obvious importance of selling, many employees, recruiters, and most hiring managers are weak at selling. In addition, generally few effective data-driven selling tools are provided to those that interact with prospects and candidates. If you want to improve your selling capability in recruiting, here are some actions …
Read More »Talent Pipeline Case Study — Nestlé Purina Reaches an Amazing 43 Percent of Hires
You might be surprised to learn that a talent pipeline strategy can yield a time to fill that can actually be zero days. If you’re not familiar with the concept, a talent pipeline recruiting strategy provides a tremendous competitive advantage because it allows your firm to fill positions almost immediately …
Read More »Marketing for Recruiters — ‘What Is It Going to Take to Get You In This Car?’
Few in recruiting understand the importance of identifying a candidate’s job acceptance criteria Data, Technology, and Marketing are the three foundation pillars that are currently and dramatically transforming the recruiting function. I call these the new recruiting triad. Of these three pillars, shifting to a marketing approach is the easiest …
Read More »Stop Your Firm’s Brain Drain – Convincing Innovators to Choose an Established Firm Over a Startup
There is an innovator brain drain going on. The drain is away from larger established firms, which desperately need more innovators, and toward startup firms, which are successfully recruiting a disproportionately high percentage of these prized innovators. It doesn’t matter whether your corporation is trying to hire experienced talent or recent …
Read More »Assessing Whether You Have an Elite Strategic Recruiting Function — a Checklist
Corporate recruiting is a field where there are distinct and measurable differences between the average and elite functions. In short, what that means is that “elite” recruiting functions (defined as the top 1%) produce superior results and act in ways that are totally different from the average function. I am …
Read More »Recruiting Lessons From The Olympics
The Summer Olympics start soon and most will be focused on the athletic achievements, but the Olympics can provide many valuable lessons for recruiters. Recruiting leaders often say that they’re looking for “outside-the-box” approaches and it’s hard to argue against the fact that the Olympic recruiting approach differs significantly from …
Read More »The Strategic Recruiting of Purple Squirrels, Innovators, and Gamechangers
There is no more valuable recruit than a “Purple Squirrel.” In fact, a single Purple Squirrel recruit may be more impactful than all of your other hires combined during a single year. If you’re not familiar with the term, a Purple Squirrel is the moniker that denotes an extremely rare …
Read More »Powerful Recruiting Approaches for Startup Firms
Recruiting is important at any firm, but it is super critical at startup firms. This is because when you have thousands of employees, you can still get by after hiring a few turkeys. At a startup, however, you are so lean that every hire must count and a single bad …
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