Why You Should Read This Regardless of what industry or industries your firm participates in, chances are your senior leadership is paying more attention than ever before to the impact talent has on productivity. The increased scrutiny this visibility brings to the staffing function requires that staffing professionals and managers …
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Quality of Hire: What To Measure and When To Measure It
In Part 1 of this article series, we looked at the many reasons why your organization should measure the quality of its hires. Here in Part 2 we’ll take it a step further and get into the details of what to measure and when to measure it. Quality Of Hire: What …
Read More »Quality of Hire: Why You Should Measure It
I consider the single biggest fault with corporate and external recruiting functions to be their almost universal failure to measure the quality (or performance) of the people they hire. Nearly every other “overhead” function, from supply chain to package delivery, has jumped on the ISO or six-sigma bandwagon, but recruiting …
Read More »Stop Worrying About The Cost Per Hire – A “Better Metric” Is The Quality Of Hire
I hear HR professionals say they want to be strategic but often their actions indicate otherwise. Take the all too commonly used “cost per hire” metric. Sure it’s used by lots of people but so is astrology. Let me explain what’s wrong with it and how it could be improved. What’s …
Read More »Cost Per Hire A “Better Metric” Is The Quality Of Hire
All the recent net traffic on cost per hire pushed my button so here are some thoughts on what’s wrong with it.I hear HR professionals say they want to be strategic but often their actions indicate otherwise. Take the all too commonly used “cost per hire” metric. Sure it’s used …
Read More »Why Boomerang Rehire Programs Rank #2 in Producing High-quality Hires
Other than referrals from your top-performing employees, it’s hard to find a corporate recruiting source with a higher quality of hire (i.e. on-the-job performance) and a higher ROI than boomerang rehire programs. If you’re not familiar with the term, a “boomerang rehire” is a former top-performing employee who you rehire …
Read More »Measuring the Quality of Those You Didn’t Hire – Are You Missing the Best?
Selecting HR Metrics Is Unfortunately Not a Scientific Process Most organizations adopt metrics based on those covered by benchmark reports or that can be easily enabled via their technology providers, instead of determining what they need to discover or prove. As a result, many organizations are burdened with data and …
Read More »How To Measure The Quality Of Your Applicants (Before You Hire Them)
Managers are continually asking for a higher quality of candidate, while recruiters tend to focus on the cost or the speed of the hire. The quality of the applicant is clearly the superior factor. There are many ways to measure the quality of the applicants (before you hire them). Some …
Read More »The Only Recruiting Measure That Matters – Measure The Quality Of Your Hires!
Note – Let me be clear, the single most important thing you can do to improve ANY staffing function is to measure and reward the quality/performance of the people you hire. Everything else pales by comparison in changing the way you recruit! Most employment managers measure success in the wrong …
Read More »Need Amazing Employees? – Hire Those “Defined By Their Work” (Because commitment, work ethic, and mastery will produce amazing results)
Google found that 90% of a team’s value comes from the top 10%. So, recruit this amazing 10%. A Think Piece – encouraging you to hire those who are defined by their work. What Is An “Amazing Employee” (AE) Reviewing my long talent management career, I quickly remember the handful …
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