It’s a first in modern times, with record unemployment, attracting applicants will still be extremely hard. My research indicates that this is the first time that most companies will struggle to attract sufficient applicants during times of record high unemployment rates. If your organization needs to ramp up business quickly …
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Video Record Your Candidate Interviews… To Improve Your Hiring Results
Interviews are the highest impact assessment step, and interview effectiveness may improve by 33% with video recording.
Read More »Improve Your Hiring Results… Tweak Your Resume Screening Process, So It’s More Objective
Not getting great hires? Look no further than letting your recruiters/managers develop their own whimsical resume screening process. In many cases, these unstructured and undocumented resume screening processes produce the most damage to your hiring results of any screening step. That resulting hiring damage is so severe because there are …
Read More »Improve Your Hiring Results… By Increasing Transparency In Your Interview Process
Unnecessary stress hurts interviewee performance. However, increasing transparency reduces most candidate stress. Stop Treating Interviewees Like Adversaries By Increasing Interview Transparency Let me be blunt. Most recruiting organizations seem to enjoy making their interviews highly stressful. In fact, throughout recruitment history, job interviews have been highly adversarial and exclusively one-sided. …
Read More »Update Your HR Metrics For The SEC’s Human Capital Reporting Rules
The SEC now requires listed firms to report their human capital metrics publicly, so this topic should be our #1 HR issue. However, few in HR seem even to be aware of these new requirements. No less the tremendous impact that these new public reporting requirements will have. Already in effect, the new SEC reporting rules will force HR to focus on identifying, quantifying the impact, and then publicly reporting each of its major human capital initiatives.
Read More »What’s Wrong With Hiring a Gig Workforce? Pretty Much Everything
The gig economy has become a hot workforce topic. However, despite the hype, the concept has numerous hidden management problems. Recently, executives have been drawn to the concept because of its lower benefits costs, but also for the scalability that a gig workforce provides (with the ability to quickly add …
Read More »[SLIDES] EFFECTIVE TIPS FOR GETTING HIRING MANAGERS TO FOCUS ON GREAT RECRUITING
How to Double Your Business Impacts by Assessing a Candidate’s Career Trajectory
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 …
Read More »Diversity’s Revolving Door — With 2x The Turnover, A Diversity Retention Program Is Needed
As seen on ERE Media (May 15, 2017). Most firms have no idea that they have a revolving door that is bleeding diversity talent because unexplainably, they don’t measure and report diversity turnover and the cost. But what if your executives knew that diversity turnover “was off the chart,” where …
Read More »Some Firms Use The Practice Of Requesting Salary History — Why Firms Ask For It And How They Use It
As seen on ERE Media (April 24, 2017). The practice of firms either requesting or requiring applicants to provide their “salary history” is coming under tremendous pressure as part of the overall push for pay equity for women. And as a result, there are many new and proposed laws about the …
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