Recruiting is just like fishing. You may think that there is a shortage of fish, when the real problem is where you fish and what bait you use! I simply have to laugh when I hear CEOs and executives complain about the talent or skill shortages that their firm faces. …
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Don’t Buy the Company…Recruit Its Employees Instead
Microsoft has a clever strategy to recruit away Yahoo! employees. For the most part, Microsoft has successfully relied on its strong employment brand and near-boundless opportunities to attract the best and brightest as opposed to seeking them out. That is, until recently, when Microsoft raised the level of its recruiting …
Read More »Bringing Healthcare Recruiting into the 21st Century
Organizations That Excel While most talent management professionals in healthcare have dedicated hours to coming up with excuses why they can't recruit and retain a sufficient quantity of high-quality staff, other firms have found a way to overcome macro-level obstacles. Some of the benchmark firms to evaluate include: Griffin Hospital …
Read More »This “Forever” Hiring Shortage… Will Forever Hurt Your Business Results (Shifting to Competitive Advantage Recruiting)
The recent Post-COVID hiring shortage wasn’t temporary, instead, it’s a permanent business condition. So why isn’t it a standard corporate practice to measure (and respond to) the current level of recruiting competition in your industry? Descriptors| Recruiting / Hiring shortages – Future of recruiting components – 5 min read In …
Read More »Recruit From A Competitor’s Team… And Rejuvenate Your Business Results (Introducing team-level competitor recruiting)
Hire one key person from a competitor’s team and instantly gain all of their operational knowledge (i.e., non-product secrets). Yes, Team-level Competitor Recruiting is a targeted recruiting practice (some mistakenly call it poaching) that operates at the team level. This approach is designed to hire one key person away from …
Read More »The Key Driver Of Every Company’s Bottom-Line… Will Be A High-Volume Pipeline Full Of AI Candidates
The Future of Strategic Recruiting will use tools like Evergreen Jobs to create an AI talent pipeline. As you will learn later, this AI talent pipeline will soon be necessary for any company to achieve its bottom-line results. This “always recruiting tool” that I am highlighting here enables companies to …
Read More »Does Your Company Gain A Competitive Advantage From Recruiting? – Can You Prove It To Skeptical Executives?
Sadly it’s rare to find “gaining a competitive advantage” on any list of strategic recruiting goals. This is a strategic thinkpiece. And that omission from our goals is troubling. Because every other strategic business function that operates in a “highly competitive environment” like finance, product development, and supply chain.” For …
Read More »Alert For An Exceptional Talent Opportunity… Target Elite Firms That Are Currently Undergoing Layoffs (Job security is becoming a major attraction factor, so why not poach at Twitter?)
Targeting struggling firms allows you to hire exceptional talent that now seeks greater job security. Yes, during a time when talent opportunities have been quite rare, there is suddenly a recruiting opportunity that shouldn’t be missed. This opportunity now exists because a significant number of elite but temporarily struggling firms, …
Read More »Predict Each Candidate’s “Time To Turnover” Before Making A Hiring Decision (A checklist of the factors that predict both short and long retention)
With record-high turnover, it pays to predict which finalists will likely become early turnover. Improve Your Hiring Results By Predicting Each Candidate’s “Time To Turnover” Amazingly, some companies predict current employee turnover with a 95% accuracy rate. However, I suggest that it’s time to expand our turnover predictions to the …
Read More »The Great Resignation Should Be Renamed – The Great Recruiting Opportunity
With 55% of employees open to a new job, you could describe this time as "The Great Recruiting Opportunity" of the 21st century.
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