If you are a recruiting leader whose executives have extremely high expectations for dominating their industry, this is the article for you. After 20 years of studying Silicon Valley and West Coast firms that dominate their industries, I have found that there are clear differentiators that cause firms like Google, …

Repost, originally published in June 2016 A comprehensive name-capturing guide for identifying who should be in your recruiting pipeline Let’s get straight to the point: having an external recruiting talent pipeline is a powerful tool but almost no one does it well. You can tell if your pipeline is failing …

Dr. Sullivan has been writing for over twenty years starting with Diversity Recruiting — The Compelling Business Case. This page contains a selection of John’s articles on D&I for the last 20 years. Why? Many diversity programs are well supported by top management but often for the wrong reasons. Some …

Hiring freezes are common during downturns. However, they are often an economic mistake that hurts revenue generation and product development. Their “unintended consequences” are seldom identified, tracked, or quantified in dollars by talent leadership.

The focus of this article is to provide a “toolkit” of effective intuitive high-touch tools that should be used at the team level when every new worker must be onboarded remotely.

This article covers the remaining three of the eight onboarding goals and the most appropriate remote tools for each goal. It also includes remote team building activities.

The focus of this article is to provide “a “toolkit” of” effective intuitive high-touch tools that should be used at the team level when every new worker must be onboarded remotely. However, it’s important to note that the remote onboarding tools listed here are especially effective for any employee that is working 100% remotely.

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.

I predict that the recent turmoil surrounding our pandemic will strain the job search process to the point where existing search approaches will soon become ineffective. The job-loss damage is already becoming obvious — 25% of people making less than $50,000 report that they had been let go or had hours reduced as a result of the recent turmoil.

Job fairs stink as a hiring source. They don’t even make it on Jobvite’s top 13 list of most effective recruiting sources, and typically they produce less than 2% of all experienced hires. HR executives rated job fairs as the least effective job-search method, with a survey rating of only 1.6 out of a …