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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Knowing The Business – The #1 Driver Of Performance In HR And Recruiting
This comprehensive guide to “knowing the business” will jumpstart both your performance and your career.
Read More »Hire Those That Beat You – A High Business Impact Recruiting Strategy
After a sports team beats yours, you try to hire their highest impact player away. Corporations can also prevent losing future competitions using a “hire those that beat you” recruiting program. Which is a program that targets directly hiring at least one key employee away from a competitor’s team that …
Read More »Recruiting’s Missed Strategic Opportunity — Competitive Intelligence Gathering
Not having a competitive intelligence (a.k.a. CI) gathering process is a missed opportunity for recruiting to increase its strategic contribution and its direct business impacts.
Read More »Ghosting — Prevent Candidates Who Accept Your Offer From Disappearing
Ghosting in business is getting worse. If you’re not familiar with the term, candidate ghosting, it’s when a candidate stops merely responding to their recruiter.
Read More »Recruiting’s Ugly Secret — You Know How Exciting It Is to Work at Your Firm, But No One Else Does
The recruiting leader’s guide to revealing the excitement of working at your firm Consider this sad but all-too-common recruiting scenario. Your firm is an exceptionally exciting place to work. You have great people, great leaders, great products, and to put it bluntly, every employee considers working there to be an …
Read More »Pinterest Produces Amazing Diversity Results … Using Proactive Targeted Referrals
By focusing on one type of diversity referral program, within six weeks a firm can dramatically turn around its diversity recruiting … to the point of, for engineering jobs, “a 55-fold increase in the percentage of candidates from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds” and a “24 percent increase in women applicants.” Well, these dramatic …
Read More »Pinterest Produces Amazing Diversity Results … Using Proactive Targeted Referrals
By focusing on one type of diversity referral program, within six weeks a firm can dramatically turn around its diversity recruiting … to the point of, for engineering jobs, “a 55-fold increase in the percentage of candidates from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds” and a “24 percent increase in women applicants.” Well, these dramatic …
Read More »Google’s Rabbit Hole — Innovatively Sourcing Top Talent Based on Their Search Words
Google’s seven-month old “rabbit hole” recruiting program simply has to be classified as innovative. The program has two major components. The first (a “keyword sourcing” approach) identifies employed top talent (some call them passives) based on the advanced terminology that they place in the Google search box while learning and …
Read More »The Top 10 Thought-provoking CFO ‘Questions From Hell’ for Recruiting Leaders
Recruiting questions from hell that most recruiting leaders can’t answer May I suggest that this may be the most thought-provoking recruiting article that you read this year. It is thought provoking because it covers mind-numbing questions that you are likely to get covering the business impacts of recruiting. Answering tough …
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