One of the primary reasons why increasing amounts of technology are entering the recruiting space is the recognition that recruiters and hiring managers harbor a great deal of unconscious bias, which has a negative impact on a firm’s recruiting results. I live in the Silicon Valley, where in an effort …
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The Top 5 Dumb Things That Hiring Managers Do That Hurt Their Recruiting Results
The talent management practice with the highest business impact, by far, is recruiting. But, a significant part of that impact will be reduced if your hiring managers do dumb things. Yes, hiring managers are the No. 1 contributing factor to hiring success, according to Bersin by Deloitte. Unfortunately, most hiring …
Read More »Top Candidates Are Gone Within 10 Days … So Assign Each A ‘Hire-By-Date’
By Dr. John Sullivan February 15, 2016 | ERE If business people ran recruiting … they would assign a “hire by date” to each must-hire candidate, because these valuable in-demand candidates are likely to be quickly out of the job market. Perhaps an example will help you understand the concept of …
Read More »Preboarding Stops New Hires From Walking Away From Already Accepted Offers
What could be more frustrating than working for months interviewing and selecting the perfect candidate, only to have them not to show up on their first day of work? Unfortunately, it is becoming increasingly common for new hires to walk away from an offer that they have already accepted, or …
Read More »You Might Be Surprised How Much Commute Issues Hurt Hiring and Retention
As more firms adapt a data-supported approach to HR decision-making, new data is revealing that commute issues can have a major impact on hiring success and retention. Now you may have assumed that commute issues were an obscure factor with only a minor impact, but you would be wrong. You …
Read More »The Silliness of Measuring Cost Per Hire, and How it Can Reduce Your Strategic Impact
I nominate the calculating of “cost per hire” as the single most pointless and damaging exercise in recruiting. Even though the cost per hire metric is widely used, that certainly doesn’t mean that it adds value, and it may in fact actually hurt the recruiting function. Years ago when I …
Read More »The Top 30 Problems With Assessing Organizational Fit – And How It Can Hurt Your Firm
What could be simpler than assessing "the fit" of a candidate?
Read More »Recruiting’s Dirty Little Secrets — What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
Recruiting Dirty Little Secrets Here are a dozen areas where corporate recruiting could improve. The corporate black hole — because of recruiter overload, the volume of applicants, and technology problems, a resume submitted to a corporate career site may actually have a zero probability of being reviewed. In the …
Read More »20 Reasons Why Weak Managers Never Hire A-level Talent
Talent acquisition functions spend thousands of hours and millions of dollars designing processes to hire top performers, innovators, and game changers. Unfortunately few of those dollars or hours are spent fixing the biggest roadblock in recruiting A-level talent: weak hiring managers. Everyone seems to intuitively know that managers are the …
Read More »LeBron the $200 Million Hire Came From a High-Impact Hiring Strategy
There are two fundamental types of hiring strategies: high volume and high impact. Most corporate directors of recruiting think that the most common, high-volume recruiting, has the highest overall impact because, after all, it is used to fill a large number of openings. However, senior executives in sports, entertainment, the …
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