46% of hires fail, and Google found interviews can have a lower predictive value than a coin flip. Also, research by Gallup found that “Companies fail to choose the candidate with the right talent for the job 82% of the time.” In my experience, you can fairly blame the common …
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Reduce Your Talent Shortage… By Offering Candidate Incentives (The complete guide to recruiting incentives)
In a talent shortage, when you must increase participation in recruiting, learn to pay for it! During these extremely challenging recruiting times, there is ample proof that even small incentives will increase participation rates during important recruiting steps. “What gets rewarded gets done.” When looking at the big picture, it’s …
Read More »Dr. Sullivan’s Must-Read Recruiting Articles From 2021
Rapid best practice learning is the only competitive advantage in today’s highly competitive recruiting world.
Read More »Death By Interview – Another Stealth Killer Of Recruiting Results
Excess interviews frustrate candidates, but they don’t improve hiring decisions.
Read More »Top 8 Diversity Killers – Stealth Assessment Areas That Hurt Diversity Hiring
The diverse are often dropped after failing assessments on minor factors, not because of overt discrimination during hiring. Yes, almost every organization today sets high goals for diversity hiring. Unfortunately, I find that most fail to meet their diversity hiring goals, not because of major institutional discrimination. But instead, due …
Read More »Good Decision-Makers Are Declining, And Don’t Hire Those That Think They Are A Cow
Good decision-making is needed in every job, but it’s declining in the population. This “think piece” is designed to stimulate your thinking. More bad news for most employers that are facing a scarcity of qualified talent… even in a fast-moving world, good decision-makers are needed at every job level. Be …
Read More »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 »Hiring Interviews Have Lost Their Accuracy — A Warning
Yes, job interviews have been a tradition for well over a century. But we now live in a world where many new developments threaten the accuracy of interviews by transforming them into more like a version of liar’s poker. For example, candidates can now easily identify their likely interview questions …
Read More »Hire Smarter … Based on the Way That a Candidate Solves Problems
Once you realize that most of the work done by professional-level employees involves solving a series of complex problems in a team environment, it makes sense to ensure that you assess a candidate’s problem-solving capability. The smartest recruiters and hiring managers go the next step and focus specifically on how a candidate solves problems.
Read More »Signs That You Aced Your Job Interview – So Now You Can Relax
The job search has been ranked #3 as the most stressful thing in life. The interviews are typically the most stressful step in job searching. Moreover, interview stress is often worse during the long delay between the end of the interview and hearing how you did. As a recruiting expert, …
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