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05/07/2015 High Performance Workforce Summit
When: May 7 2015 Where: Atlanta, GA I am honored to be a speaker at this event. So don’t miss it! Here is a preview of my session: On the Leading-Edge of High Performance: Silicon Valley’s Secrets to Creating the World’s Most Productive Workforces Thursday, May 7, 2015 3:15 pm …
Read More »Hire Self-Motivated People — the Single Smartest Thing a Hiring Manager Can Do
How recruiters can become a hero of your hiring managers by dramatically reducing the number of hours that they have to spend motivating and watching their employees If you are a corporate manager, you already know that you routinely spend a significant portion of your time trying to motivate your …
Read More »Increase Hiring Manager Performance and Compliance With Service-level Agreements
I estimate that hiring managers are responsible for more than 60 percent of all delays and errors during hiring. So if you want to improve your quality of hire, reduce position vacancy days, and improve process compliance, it only makes sense to try to get hiring managers to put a …
Read More »What’s Wrong With Retention Bonuses? Pretty Much Everything
In 30 years, I have yet to see a retention bonus retain, let alone motivate, anyone. – Kate D’ Camp, former VP of HR at Cisco Let’s face it: only a few people voluntarily spend any time thinking about the use of employee retention bonuses (ERBs). I wouldn’t either, except for the …
Read More »Experience Is Overrated — Arguments for Hiring Talented Individuals Without Perfect Credentials
by Dr. John Sullivan and Trena Luong Orville Wright did not have a pilot’s license –slogan used at Facebook to warn hiring managers not to overly focus on credentials I, the lead author, have 40 years of experience working in the talent space. But given that experience, I still don’t understand …
Read More »15 Ultra-bold Recruiting Practices — Are You Falling Behind Your Competitors?
by Trena Luong and John Sullivan In case you haven’t noticed, the world of corporate recruiting has become so intense that formerly rare aggressive and ultra-bold recruiting practices are now becoming mainstream. Of course as a professional, you know that you have an obligation to keep up with the latest …
Read More »Always Open ‘Evergreen Jobs’ Can Improve Your Chances of Recruiting Top Talent
As the war for talent continues, it’s time for recruiting leaders and hiring managers to shift to more creative and innovative recruiting solutions. A bold approach that I have been recommending since 1999 is the creation of “evergreen jobs.” Simply put, these are the one or two most critical corporate …
Read More »Video Job Descriptions — a Not-to-be Missed Application Accelerator
If you don’t know what a video job description is, it is a short video clip where the hiring manager and team members describe the exciting aspects of a particular job in order to convince top-quality but reluctant prospects to apply. A video job description is a supplement to, rather …
Read More »Steps for Increasing Your Speed of Hire in Order to Improve Your Quality of Hire, 2 Part article
This two-part in-depth article covers the how-to steps that corporate recruiters can use to speed up their hiring process. Speed of hire is an important topic for recruiting leaders because without it you won’t be able to successfully land high-quality candidates who are in and out of the job market …
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