70% of employees withhold their best performance, and half of those sleepwalk through each workday (Gallup research). “It seems like nobody wants to work these days.” Yes, this now-famous Kim Kardashian quote has recently been supported by Gallup research that focused on underperforming employees. So if your business situation requires …
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Is Your Employee Turnover Rate Too Low? Understanding How It Hurts You
It’s a mistake to focus exclusively on high turnover because a too-low rate will also cause damage. This is a think piece – for making leaders interested in unusually low turnover rates. Don’t Reduce Your Focus On Employee Retention, Because It’s Still The #1 Priority If you are among the …
Read More »The Many Perils Of Accepting Certifications As Qualifications (Problems with accepting certifications instead of college degrees during hiring)
Only 5% of surveyed recruiters say that certifications can replace college degrees in all jobs. And only 48 % agree that they can replace college degrees in at least some jobs. The latest disruption recruiting leaders now face is the growing emphasis on certifications over college degrees. A recent survey …
Read More »A Simple “What Worked Survey” Quickly Improves Sourcing / Recruiting (How data-driven sourcing will delay AI)
Recently updated research on sourcing once again shows that it remains the top challenge for TA. And unfortunately, the reappearance of this problem in the research means that weak sourcing has been the top TA problem for at least four years running. Not a pretty picture, and something that simply …
Read More »An Obscure Turnover Cause Is Now Ranked #1 – And “A Company’s Projected Business Outlook” Is That Turnover Cause
Higher uncertainty has made “communicating a positive company outlook” an essential retention tool. Yes, a combination of uncertainty-creating factors, including large layoffs, a volatile economy, and the fear that a lack of AI capability will make some companies noncompetitive almost overnight. And this sudden high level of uncertainty has created …
Read More »Hiring’s Hidden Problem – Your Resume Screeners Are “Hunting For Weaknesses” (Instead of focusing on applicants whose strengths far outweigh their flaws)
Not seeing enough strong applicants? Blame screeners that are overly focused on finding weaknesses. Yes, the #1 screening error in most organizations occurs when your screeners are exclusively focused on “screening out” all resumes that contain even a single weakness or flaw. During their “hunt for weaknesses,” these screeners purposely …
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 »Improve Hiring Instantly… Simply Add An Interview Scheduling App (Seldom does a simple addition have such a measurable impact on your results)
Note that the lengthy back-and-forth of most interview scheduling is the longest hiring delay factor! Yes, using something as slow as a people-driven traditional interview scheduling process. Could, in some cases, lengthen the overall hiring process by up to 50%. And having an overly long time period to complete all …
Read More »Revisiting Top Talent Failures – Recruiting Sources That Only The Best Use
Most “revisits” are top prospects that applied, and came close, but were never hired during a job search. So they can be classified as top-talent failures. However, I find that these talent failures are right under your nose. It should be considered as a top-quality talent pool instead. It is …
Read More »The Elimination Of All Sourcing Jobs… Is Being Accelerated By AI
Note: Sourcing jobs led the recent wave of recruiting layoffs at top firms like Amazon and Meta. So in the near future, be prepared for the day when AI-generated search algorithms will permanently replace almost all the work human sourcers have done. Just like not long ago when ATS screening …
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