Want to achieve extraordinary results? Set unreasonable timetables! – John Patrick IBM Strategist What is the speed of hire? A deliberate strategy for improving the quality of our hires by decreasing the cycle time for making a hiring decision. Don’t confuse speed of hire with “time to fill”. Speed of …

There have been several posts lately (HRNET) on how to improve Orientation. Through my work in retention, I have found that poor orientation can increase “buyers remorse” and thus increase turnover. Below are some orientation tools you might find a welcome addition to what you currently do. Not all tools …

After studying hundreds of employment systems at Fortune 500 firms we have identified numerous metrics or measures that can be used to assess the impact and quality of employment systems. This checklist can be used as an audit tool or as a mechanism for identifying and continuously improving the employment …

Remote video interviews are suddenly quite popular, but few realize that they have serious flaws that negatively impact the decisions made after using them. And with many recruiters now working from home, it’s critical to immediately remedy these design flaws that hurt your quality of hire. This article is a quick guide to a dozen easy remote video interview (RVI) practices and tips that can result in a significant improvement in your results.

The next generation of employee referral programs will focus on improving quality of hire.

Most resume scans are shallow, so they pass over factors that reveal if a candidate is exceptional.  Descriptors | Recruiting/Resume screening – Talent indicators – How-to – 5 min read Why Most Resume Scanning Approaches Fail To Identify Exceptional Candidates Most traditional resume-scanning processes come up short. They are designed …

Just seeing/hearing a candidate’s name can cause them to be rejected because of unconscious biases. So, if you want to avoid religious discrimination, consider using one of the available name-blinding methods. It’s a mistake to assume that the current Middle East conflict isn’t having a negative impact on recruiting. In …

Improve your hiring results and save hours of valuable manager time with automated video interviews. This Emerging Interview Tool Is Right For Today’s Problems To start off, before you even begin thinking negatively about automating anything in HR. Realize that in today’s highly competitive world of recruiting. It is essential …

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 …

Even the most optimistic need to prepare for another difficult year in recruiting. So, if you’re the Pollyanna type who only wants to hear positive news, I suggest that you immediately stop reading. Because from a recruiting perspective, 2023 is likely to be even worse than the last two years …