The performance gap between the very best employee referral programs and the typical program is growing dramatically wider each day. Benchmark organizations dedicating resources and formally managing their programs are very close to producing 50% or more of all external hires from their programs — nearly double that of the …
Read More »Search Results for: employer branding
The Steps of the Recruiting Process … and How to Identify Failure Points
The 19 Steps in an Effective Recruiting Process In this section I’ll list each of the 19 distinct steps in the recruiting process, as well as the primary goal and the common cause of failure for each. Step #1 — Determine your ideal recruiting target — the goal of this …
Read More »Best Practices in Recruiting — ERE Excellence Awards 2010 (Part 1 of 4)
As with all ere.net posts, you are encouraged to share your thoughts on the practices described, ask follow up questions, and suggest additional practices that elevate the game following each installment. Best Practices in Employee Referral Programs I have long argued that employee referral programs should be the foundation of …
Read More »How Candidate Abuse Is Costing Your Firm Millions of Dollars in Revenue
A reporter from the Wall Street Journal once asked me what I thought was the greatest secret in recruiting. Such a broad question would usually cause one to ponder, but my immediate response was that abusive hiring processes cost organizations millions of dollars by turning possible customers into lifelong “haters.” …
Read More »India Surpasses the U.S. in Global Recruiting Leadership
The Hotbeds of Evolution and Innovation are Shifting No one can argue that rapid growth of the technology sector in 1997 left many technology companies desperate for talent, and that desperation drove many charged with recruiting for such organizations to both collaborate and innovate new practices to help close gaps …
Read More »Recruiting Lessons From the Olympics: Learning From Outside Your Box
You will never become a world-class recruiter if you restrict your learning to benchmarking against other similar corporate recruiting functions. Great recruiters can and do learn many things by studying completely different business functions like sales, marketing, branding, supply chain management, quality control, and customer relationship management. In addition, great …
Read More »A Think Piece: Why Is Recruiting So Low on the Corporate Power Scale?
This is one of a series of what I call “think-pieces.” Instead of casual reading, these articles are intended to stimulate some in-depth thinking and to pose some strategic questions that recruiting leaders should ponder. The questions raised here are, at least in part, designed to make you uncomfortable” with …
Read More »Integrated Talent Acquisition – It’s Time to Tie This Hodgepodge Together
It’s hard to argue against the concept of strategic integration. Having related business units working closely together, rather than operating as independent silos, almost always increases efficiency, reduces errors, and improves overall results. There’s no better example of what integration can accomplish than the modern-day supply-chain organization, which used to …
Read More »Interview From Anywhere: Live Video Interviews Are Now a Best Practice (Part I of II)
When it comes to video-conference interviews, organizations still have two options: high quality fixed facility interviews, and lower quality flexible location interviews. The latter requires only that the candidate have access to a decent broadband Internet connection and a low-cost webcam. When purchased in bulk, a number of webcams are …
Read More »Does Your Firm Have a Plan to Respond to Employee Issues Related to the Swine Flu?
Most corporate executives and HR professionals might think that the impending swine flu pandemic is strictly a public health issue, but if you are thinking that way, you would be wrong. It turns out that the impending swine flu pandemic is also a major corporate issue that needs to be …
Read More »