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Revealing the Factors That Restrict the Recruiting of STEM Women (Part 2 of 2)
by Trena Luong and Dr. John Sullivan This is the final part of a two-part research-based series that is designed to reveal and describe the four categories of factors that restrict the recruiting of STEM women (i.e. women with degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) into high-tech firms. In part one we highlighted …
Read More »Examining Zappos’s ‘No Job Postings’ Recruiting Approach — Innovation or Craziness?
The new recruiting “no job postings” website of Zappos is truly unique. First off, you have to give the Zappos team credit for eliminating anything in recruiting, because we have a long history in recruiting of adding but never subtracting approaches. The new talent community declares the end to job postings and …
Read More »Stop Your Firm’s Brain Drain – Convincing Innovators to Choose an Established Firm Over a Startup
There is an innovator brain drain going on. The drain is away from larger established firms, which desperately need more innovators, and toward startup firms, which are successfully recruiting a disproportionately high percentage of these prized innovators. It doesn’t matter whether your corporation is trying to hire experienced talent or recent …
Read More »Video Job Descriptions — a Not-to-be Missed Application Accelerator
If you don’t know what a video job description is, it is a short video clip where the hiring manager and team members describe the exciting aspects of a particular job in order to convince top-quality but reluctant prospects to apply. A video job description is a supplement to, rather …
Read More »Recruiting High School and Non-degreed Top Talent — A Missed Corporate Opportunity
In case you didn’t hear about it, college football powerhouse Alabama recently offered a scholarship to eighth-grade football player Dylan Moses and LSU offered a scholarship to a ninth grader. Before you react in shock as a parent might, consider the fact that teenage talent may be the last remaining …
Read More »The Top 20 Reasons Why Recruiting Is an Exciting and High-Impact Job
As a professor in a large business school, I am frequently asked, “What is the most exciting and impactful job in the corporate world?” While others may answer differently, to me the most exciting and impactful job is clearly recruiting. It is full of excitement because every day as a …
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ADVISING AND SPEAKING – LIST OF FIRMS / ORGANIZATIONS Since 1998 High Tech Adobe Agilent technologies Ameritech AOL/ Netscape Apple Ariba Software BEA systems Cisco Compaq Dallas Semiconductor Dell ExactSoftware Facebook Google HP Intel ICS Advent KLA-Tencor Kronos Lucent Microsoft National Semiconductor Oracle Pac Telesis Personic PeopleSoft Pure Carbon Qualcomm …
Read More »‘Friends of the Firm Referrals’ — Expand Referrals to Non-Employees
There is an emerging recruiting trend where traditional employee referral programs are being expanded to allow non-employees to submit referrals. I call these variation “friends of the firm” referrals (FOF) because it expands the number of individuals who are looking for top talent for your firm beyond the traditional employee …
Read More »Remote College Recruiting — Capturing Top Students From Schools You Don’t Visit
Many exceptional students probably do not attend the schools that you visit If you assume that the best students only attend the top ranked schools, you are making a big mistake. A while back I asked a recruiter at a large well-known network firm that recruited engineers at MIT, Caltech, …
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