Pick one: reference checks suck, or they are the perfect scam. Even though everyone uses them, there is no corporate evidence that reference checks identify great hires or that they screen out weak candidates. So it’s important to pay attention to the few public critics of this reference-checking process. More …

Cheating on reference checks is at an all-time high. To slow this trend, this article provides a scannable list of the problems that cause flawed reference-checking processes to produce a significant number of bad or failed hires. The reference-checking process in most businesses and corporations needs immediate attention. After years …

“Recruiting is just sales with a crummy budget.” So why haven’t recruiting leaders learned a lesson about incentives from their company’s sales function? Because sales leaders consistently operate under the proven idiom of “what you reward gets done.” So at least to me, everyone in the talent world should be …

LeBron was recently recruited using a dream job offer, where the money offered him clearly came last in importance. LeBron took a whopping $97 million pay cut over two seasons to end his career with a dream job that included job factors that were clearly personalized to his current needs. …

As the NFL season is about to begin, I wonder how many of those in recruiting have heard of the term “complementary football.”  This is a sports productivity and results improvement process that also works in business. This complementary approach improves your results by making it more likely that one …

Most struggle to get the attention of applicants. Clickbaiting may be the answer! Unfortunately, a great deal of recruitment messaging is routine and dull. So often, important messages go unnoticed, and when they are spotted, the time that potential applicants spend on those messages is minuscule. However, clickbaiting recruitment messaging …

How often have you heard the “I wish we could stay here” phrase while you were on a vacation trip? Well, if your company has retail locations throughout the US, offers remote jobs, or has jobs that happen to be close to popular vacation areas, you have an opportunity this …

In our competitive and fast-moving world, failure is now a certainty. And even though it may sound counterintuitive, instead of the traditional approach of automatically rejecting candidates who have experienced failure in their jobs, today, we should instead be considering “failure as the greatest teacher.” We should begin considering those …

Long commutes cause turnover, but expensive commutes create a deluge of quitting!  Note: This article is in bullet point format in order to allow a fast scan. Realize That Commuters That Drive Now Face Three Major Burdens Baseline data reveal that the burden of long commutes has been straining commuting …

Rather than being constant, the supply of talent often suddenly increases after a recent event. So in order to maximize its impact, a recruiting strategy must have the capability of identifying what I call these “Sudden Recruiting Opportunities.” These SROs are sudden and unexpected surges in talent availability. And if …