In the high stakes game of procuring the world’s best talent, organizations are increasingly realizing that positioning one’s self correctly in the labor market is essential to even being considered as a viable employer. While 10 years ago candidates may have trusted what employers had to say, today top talent …
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Google Continues to Innovate in Recruiting and Candidate Assessment
There’s no doubt about it: Google is one of the most innovative recruiting organizations on the planet. I’ve written in the past about some of their world-class practices, but in light of recent innovations and global news interest, an update is in order. In less than nine years, Google has …
Read More »How To Develop A Recruiting Strategy
Recruiting Managers, Do You Really Have a Recruiting Strategy? Part 1. What is a recruiting strategy? When I meet with directors or managers of corporate recruiting, I routinely ask them a simple question: “What is the name of your recruiting strategy?” Almost without fail, I get one of two basic …
Read More »I Bet You Can’t Name Your Firm’s Recruiting Strategy; If Not, Pick One From This List
Basic recruiting strategies This group of strategies isn't particularly exciting or new. But these strategies do offer viable options for less-aggressive talent functions. Butts/bums in chairs: This strategy emphasizes hiring the cheapest and then releasing them when their pay-level makes them too expensive to keep or they themselves get frustrated …
Read More »18 Things Recruiters Can Do To Hire More Innovative People
As a talent management or recruiting professional, take the following steps to increase your success rate in hiring innovative individuals: Make hiring innovators a primary goal. Before you even begin the planning process, you must set as one of your primary goals and metrics in recruiting the increased hiring of …
Read More »12 Best Recruiting Practices to Copy
12 Best Practices I Would Emulate Valero's business-case model. Using basic statistical regression models, the recruiting function identified the gaps between what the business would need to continue operations and what talent they could bring in via their current model. They then converted that gap into a dollar impact and …
Read More »The Top 25 Benchmark Firms In Recruiting and Talent Management
Note: This list references firms that are large by most standards. The absence of smaller sized firms does not mean that they do not possess best practices, or that they are not benchmark worthy; it only implies that they are less known. If you are looking to learn from any …
Read More »The Top 10 Ways to Shock and Awe Your Senior Managers
Let's face it, most of the things done in recruiting are relatively mundane, and as a result, they get little recognition or even acknowledgment by senior management. If you're tired and frustrated with your present situation in recruiting, it's time to step back and realize that, in the eyes of …
Read More »Talent Management Road Kill, Part 2
Readers responding to Part 1 raised some very valid points: R. Bistrick noted that many in HR have no associated industry work experience, which limits their understanding of the business and its issues to one of keywords, often without the benefit of context. (This is certainly true for many corporate …
Read More »Best Recruiting Practices from the World’s Most Business-like Recruiting Function, Part 5
Dan Hilbert, Manager of Recruiting When you meet Dan Hilbert, manager of recruiting at Valero, you see right away that he is someone who thinks differently from the typical recruiting professional. Among the many things that prepared him for his current role were four years of Jesuit training, an all-male …
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