As seen on LinkedIn Talent Blog October 12, 2017. Republished on Energy Central as 15 Ways to Assess If a Candidate Has High Growth Potential. Any recruiter or hiring manager would be crazy not to consider a recruiting approach that could double the value they bring to the company. Well, this …
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Kick-Start Your Firm’s Growth By Hiring Candidates With Game-changer Competencies
This article covers how you can directly accelerate your firm’s growth rate through recruiting. If you’re skeptical about whether that is possible, be aware that data reveals that human capital has a much greater impact on kickstarting a firm’s growth than any financial or capital investment. And of all human …
Read More »Influence Your CEO With WOW And OW! Talent Data
As seen on Visier. This “think piece” is designed to challenge your thinking on talent metrics/analytics Everyone in HR should be aware that among the global business concerns of CEO’s, Human Capital is literally the top issue. And, unfortunately, Human Capital has been their #1 concern for four years in …
Read More »Facing A Shortage Of Applicants? — Losing Applicants Explained With 5 Ugly Numbers
As seen on ERE Media (April 17, 2017). It’s an almost universal complaint across both corporations and small businesses around the world. “We aren’t getting enough applicants and it is hurting our business.” This shortage of applications is probably occurring despite the fact that your corporation is well known and …
Read More »Candidate Coaching Improves Hiring Results — So Stop Losing Candidates For Preventable Reasons
As seen on ERE Media (March 27, 2017). If you are failing to coach your candidates prior to their interview, you may be unnecessarily losing as many as 20 percent of your qualified candidates simply for trivial reasons. Candidate coaching is where a corporate recruiter provides pre-interview guidance to qualified …
Read More »Innovation Is Now The #1 Business Driver, So IBM Abruptly Drops Remote Work
As seen on ERE Media (March 20, 2017). If innovation is essential to your firm’s success … learn the value of “coming to work” IBM is a firm that for years has been a highly visible public champion of remote work. So it was a shock to many that IBM …
Read More »Facing a Shortage of Candidates? Discover and Use the Right ‘Attraction Factors’
As seen on ERE Media (March 3, 2017). They call it talent attraction for a reason. Because, obviously, the primary role of the function is to literally “attract” the very best candidates. But when a recruiting function is only guessing about what draws in desirable candidates, it will face a …
Read More »How Uber Destroyed Its Employer Brand — Is It Time To Blow Up HR Again?
As seen on ERE Media (February 24, 2017) A powerful employer brand is essential at any firm that requires strong recruiting and retention. However, a great employer brand is especially critical in a growing company that is considering an IPO. And if you look at the last decade, it’s …
Read More »The Top 10 Startup Recruiting Errors — Why Startup Recruiting Results Stink
As seen on ERE Media on February 10, 2016. If you regularly deal with startups as I do, you already know that most of them have a painfully weak recruiting effort. This is a huge problem because every startup needs to grow but they can’t because they face a constant …
Read More »Talent Shortage Problem Solved! Create A Recruiting Culture
As seen on ERE Media Feb 3, 2017. How leaders can stop worrying about their persistent and damaging talent shortage It’s hard to find a large corporation, a tech firm, or a small business that isn’t currently suffering from a shortage of top talent with the required skills. So if …
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