By Dr. John Sullivan February 22, 2016 | ERE The dream of every corporate recruiting leader is to discover a phenomenal secret source that few in recruiting are even aware of. That recruiting source would ideally be a social media community, so its members would be “social savvy.” The new source …
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Pinterest Produces Amazing Diversity Results … Using Proactive Targeted Referrals
By focusing on one type of diversity referral program, within six weeks a firm can dramatically turn around its diversity recruiting … to the point of, for engineering jobs, “a 55-fold increase in the percentage of candidates from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds” and a “24 percent increase in women applicants.” Well, these dramatic …
Read More »Pinterest Produces Amazing Diversity Results … Using Proactive Targeted Referrals
By focusing on one type of diversity referral program, within six weeks a firm can dramatically turn around its diversity recruiting … to the point of, for engineering jobs, “a 55-fold increase in the percentage of candidates from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds” and a “24 percent increase in women applicants.” Well, these dramatic …
Read More »Recruiting Trends For 2016 And Their Supporting Best Practices, 2 Part series
What could be more important in a fast-moving world than keeping up with developing trends? Unfortunately, many in recruiting are so busy that they forget to set aside time to follow or act on these important emerging trends. The Many Benefits of Tracking Emerging Trends in Recruiting Not following trends …
Read More »The 6 Strategic Recruiting Metrics That Executives Want To See
Stop Flailing, and Finally Understand What Makes a Metric Strategic During the many decades that I have been a metrics expert, I have found that the amount of time recruiting leaders devote to recruitment metrics adds little value to recruiting or to the business. Those frustrating failures can be attributed …
Read More »December Is the Critical Month to Recruit (and Retain) Salespeople
If you haven’t already shifted to a data-based recruiting approach, December is an ideal time to see the benefits resulting from using data to take what I call “right-time” recruiting actions. Most executives and recruiting leaders are shocked when they learn that nearly 50 percent of all employee turnover in …
Read More »Referrals From Job References — The Simplest And Cheapest Sourcing Tool
November 1, 2015 | ERE Almost everyone in recruiting agrees that employee referrals produce the highest quality of hire (i.e. superior on-the-job performance). But few are aware that the references provided by new hires, with little work, can also provide outstanding referrals. I call them “reference referrals” and both the concept …
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Oct 27, 2015 How to Reduce Hiring Bias Against Women Unfortunately, there are many barriers that limit the job opportunities for professional women. Firms should use surveys of past women candidates or hires and quality of hire data to determine which factors unnecessarily restrict the hiring of women at …
Read More »How to Reduce Hiring Bias Against Women
As seen on The Wall Street Journal. JOHN SULLIVAN: Unfortunately, there are many barriers that limit the job opportunities for professional women. Firms should use surveys of past women candidates or hires and quality of hire data to determine which factors unnecessarily restrict the hiring of women at their firms. The …
Read More »[Webinar] 15 High Value Action Steps… To Elevate Your ERP to the Next Level
15 High Value Action Steps… To Elevate Your Employee Referral Program To The Next Level from Dr John Sullivan Imagine having an efficient and smooth-running employee referral program that produces nearly 50 percent of all of your hires and that ranks No. 1 among all sources in producing quality, …
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