An employee is productive a mere 12.5 hours a week. So learn why a “people first” policy is costly. A think piece – designed to get you to objectively consider the cost of hiring people. A Complete List Of Costly Problems That Workers Create (that tech solutions do not) This …

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 …

When your conservative recruiting can’t compete with $100M sign-ons, your aggressiveness must increase. This Is A Think Piece – whose goal is to encourage you to scrutinize the current level of aggressiveness in your recruiting strategy.  If You Haven’t Noticed, “Outrageous Recruiting” (OR) Is Back If you were involved in …

Alert: It’s now a business imperative to fill your strategic impact jobs with top talent. So if you’re struggling to successfully recruit for your strategic impact jobs in hot areas like AI and robotics,  this article will provide you with some answers and action tips on how you can improve …

AI and Quantum Computing tech leaders are worth their weight in gold, but they can be easy to offend. Many of your recruiting targets will not be active job seekers, which requires a different approach. Be aware that you may literally anger these leaders simply by calling them “a candidate.”  …

I estimate that an interview scoresheet can boost your hiring results by 40%. This amazing level of improvement is possible because interviewing is by far the most heavily weighted and impactful of all candidate assessment steps. This means that any major mistake during the interview process will severely reduce the …

Expect little impact because out of 100 jobs that drop the BA, only 4 will be filled by the non-degree.In addition to expecting few recruiting and business impacts, I realize the painful truth that individual hiring managers have often replaced this BA requirement with what I call voodoo candidate assessment …

I’ve been called the father of speed hiring, perhaps because my first article on it appeared nearly 25 years ago. And today, I’m outlining a version of speed hiring that I call “Start Next Week Hiring” (or SNWH). This program’s primary goal is to first make a hiring decision within …

Most of the talk around the tariffs should have been about “where is your job moving to?” Yes, I urged smart recruiting leaders not long ago to prepare for the upcoming tariffs. Well, now that these tariffs have been announced. Here are my updated predictions on how they will completely …

80% of managers say lying is acceptable. As a result, 72% of new hires report being lied to during their hiring process. And once they realize that the job that they got was nowhere near their “promised job.” Many quickly decide they will now be open to an “escape job …