Other Information-Gathering Elements for All Visitors In addition to assessing qualifications and capturing resume details, there is other information you should attempt to get from all visitors, whether they are active or passive, during their visit to your site. Elements under this feature include: Capture Their Job-Switch Criteria. This element …
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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 »An Applicant’s Bill of Rights, Part 2
Additional Applicant's Rights In addition to the potential elements of an applicants Bill of Rights that I provided last week, this part includes: More examples of rights for possible inclusion in your own applicant's Bill of Rights A list of applicant responsibilities and your expectations for any applicant A sample …
Read More »Best Recruiting Practices from the World’s Most Business-like Recruiting Function, Part 3
Recruiting Department Structure: Best Practices The recruiting team at Valero applied the management science principles of agility, “mass customization,” and customer relationship management when it designed the organizational structure of its recruiting department. Unlike most recruiting departments, which typically have a single strategy and a consistent approach that is applied …
Read More »Recruiting At Bars and Other Places Prospects Gather
Recruiters are a strange lot; thousands flock to the Internet each year looking for out-of-the-box recruiting tools, but they often reject what they find because it seems too different. If you're one of the faint-of-heart recruiters, stop reading, because there's no way you're going to have the courage to explain …
Read More »Google Sourcing: How Famous Are You?
Everyone knows that Google is one of the most popular search engines for finding information. It’s quick, accurate ó and thankfully, it’s free. But only a few savvy recruiters know that Google may also be one of the easiest to use tools on the planet for both finding and assessing top professionals. …
Read More »Hiring To Hurt: How It’s Done (Part 2)
As we saw in Part 1 of this two-part article series, many HR professionals in general ó and recruiters in particular ó act as though they are isolated from the competitive battlefield of business. All too often they act like socialists instead of capitalists. But fierce competitors hire away a competitor’s talent: …
Read More »“Intraplacement”: Reduce Retention Problems By Increasing The Internal Movement Of Your Employees
In these times of low unemployment, recruiters are constantly on the lookout for the best talent to fill open positions. We put tremendous resources into external sourcing and recruiting, but most of the time we fail to actively seek out some of the best candidates in the world-those that are …
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 »Small Business Should Win Most Recruiting Battles, Here’s Why They Don’t (Recruiting advantages at small businesses – a comprehensive guide)
Ask retirees what was the best job in your career? And often the answer is a job at a small business. And because so many respond positively that a job at a small business was the best one in their professional career, I literally laugh when small business managers complain …
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