Most corporate recruiting functions are far from strategic, and most recruiters are intensely resistant to change that. It’s a fact that the business world is rapidly changing, and how organizations recruit talent will be forced to change dramatically as well. The corporate recruiting function of the future isn’t likely to …
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Best Practices in Recruiting: 2008 ERE Award Winners
One of the challenges in the fast-moving profession of recruiting is how to keep up with the latest evolutions in best practices at the best firms. Fortunately, it’s a little easier to learn about the emerging benchmark best practices as a result of ERE Media’s Recruiting Excellence Awards, which honor …
Read More »Establishing Applicant Expectations Upfront
An Ever-Expanding Chasm In a book entitled The Support Economy, the authors write: "People have changed more than the business organizations upon which they depend. The last 50 years have seen the rise of a new breed of individuals, yet corporations continue to operate according to logic invented at the …
Read More »Budgeting for a World-Class Employee Referral Program
It’s no secret that employee referral programs are proving themselves around the world to be a highly effective and efficient channel for sourcing quality candidates. While many employers are drawn to the source based solely on attractive cost-per-hire predictions, those savvy enough to measure the impact post implementation are finding …
Read More »A Talent Opportunity Alert Process: You Should Have One
One of the most common questions I get from recruiting managers and executives is “What differentiates a world-class recruiting function from an average one?” Well, in case you didn’t know, one of the primary differentiators is the practice of “proactive recruiting.” It’s possible to categorize corporate recruiting activities into …
Read More »Top Places to Work Lists Are Valuable for both Branding and Poaching!
It’s official. Google is the #1 Best Place to Work in America according to Fortune Magazine. If you haven’t yet read this issue of Fortune, you should. It’s a powerful listing of what can be done by corporations in order to make their workplaces more exciting. It’s also important to realize that …
Read More »Develop an Innovator and Game Changer Capture Program
The Business Impact of Innovators and Game Changers There are many reasons why managers in corporate recruiting fail to institute specialized processes and programs to capture individuals (executive search professionals have long excelled at treating game changers differently). The most common reason for their lack of action is that they …
Read More »Your Corporate Website Is Boring Applicants (Part II of IV)
Providing Specialized or Localized Information to High-Priority Visitors If you have identified something unique about visitors or you have classified these people as highly desirable, they should then be shown specialized or localized information that would not be routinely shown to every applicant, in order to excite and sell them. …
Read More »Employment Branding: the Only Long-Term Recruiting Strategy
The Many Benefits of Employment Branding I have found that the primary reason why corporate recruiting managers under appreciate and under utilize a corporate branding strategy is because they have done a poor job in making the business case for investing in their firm's employment brand. You can't make a …
Read More »Referral Cards Can Wow Those You Meet
Tips for Developing Compelling Referral Cards The use of cards in recruiting is a hot topic these days, in part because of the controversy related to a U.S. Army recruiter who placed his recruiting business cards in the pockets of camouflage-style pants at a Target store in South Carolina. Well, …
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