You wouldn’t want the cheapest recruiting any more than you’d want discount brain surgery. Because recruiting produces the highest ROI of any HR function. It’s an area you should invest in, rather than one where you randomly cut costs. And because this CPH metric is so effective at encouraging cost-cutting, …

Unknowingly, ICE is reducing job applications from the immigrant community. And that can have significant business impacts. Especially in cases when a significant portion of your customer base is comprised of immigrants. So that any reduction in new-hires with immigrant backgrounds will directly reduce your corporation’s ability to communicate with …

Access to this article is limited to fierce competitors  Most CEOs are fierce competitors. They love my strategy of “targeting your competitor’s top talent, because hiring them makes you stronger, while your competitors simultaneously get weaker.” It’s a two-for-one deal. You might assume that most corporate recruiting leaders share their …

The recruiting function is unique among business functions because almost no one in recruiting can actually name even a handful of the different strategies that are available to the chief recruiting leader. But this article is not about the complete list of recruiting strategies, but instead, it is about which …

Imagine being assigned a physician and then purposely rejecting them solely because they were “overqualified” for your medical situation. Well that’s exactly what happens when hiring managers reject candidates who have “too many” qualifications. There is simply no excuse in this new era of data-based recruiting to adhere to this …

The world of business is highly competitive. Firms frequently introduce new products or run attack ads with the specific intention to hurt their direct competitors. It’s not unusual for managers to undertake deliberate actions to steal customers, force competitors to lower their prices, or even to capture prime retail locations. …

Last year, new-hire turnover jumped a whopping 15%! So everyone involved in hiring should take notice. This type of turnover may be the most painful of all turnovers! Why New Hire Turnover Is Especially Painful Of course, all turnover hurts; however, I’ve found that new-hire turnover (where recent hires leave …

Apple recently lost its iconic iPhone designer to OpenAI and another iconic designer to Meta. The loss of two of Apple’s icons should be considered a warning sign of things to come. Apple has been known for years for its exceptional retention rate among its senior executives. Smart recruiting leaders …

3 things to know This approach doesn’t hire better performers who stay longer. It blatantly ignores gender differences. The intra-generational differences are created based on how and where a candidate was brought up. So any assumption that all generation members share the same attributes is flawed. Treating candidates differently “based …

I’ve found that a hidden key to overall corporate success is the effective hiring of project managers.  Why? They are the ones who ensure the execution of each of the critical projects that make up the overall corporate plan. Most corporate Talent Acquisition functions have standalone hiring processes for executives …