Google and UnitedHealth just offered a bonus to even top performers who agreed to leave. Would you ever even consider paying one of your top-performing AI experts a large bonus if they agreed to leave your company? Would that ever be an effective method for cost-cutting? What were they thinking? …
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Recruiting Opportunity Of The Decade – My “I Told You So” Update (Target the DOGE talent pool today)
Last year, I predicted a unique recruiting opportunity that’s now a reality. Because today… I estimate that the DOGE candidate pool of government employees and contractors that will be considering a new job during the next few months Will rise to nearly 1 million! The Size of This Talent Pool… …
Read More »How to Hire After Layoffs By Lauren Dixon
As seen on Reworked.co by Lauren Dixon How to Hire Again When it does come time to hire for a previously eliminated role, legal questions are the first to address.Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) suggests to wait at least six months since the layoff. If “the former employee finds …
Read More »The Elimination Of All Sourcing Jobs… Is Being Accelerated By AI
Note: Sourcing jobs led the recent wave of recruiting layoffs at top firms like Amazon and Meta. So in the near future, be prepared for the day when AI-generated search algorithms will permanently replace almost all the work human sourcers have done. Just like not long ago when ATS screening …
Read More »Layoff Anxiety Is Extremely Costly To Your Bottom Line… And Few Know That Much Of It Is Preventable (Action steps for reducing employee angst during layoffs)
Top leaders know that those anxious over layoffs either quit, get angry, or get distracted from work. And unfortunately, all of those actions are extremely costly to the business. Of course, almost everyone is already aware that there have recently been a number of large-scale layoffs that have generated record …
Read More »December 2022 – A Unique Recruiting Opportunity That Can’t Be Missed (The right time in recruiting makes all the difference)
Don’t relax, because recruiting this December provides quality candidates and record-low competition. Yes, recruiting “at the right time” is a seldom-used strategic advantage among recruiting leaders. For example, most recruiters and hiring managers routinely “take the end-of-the-year holidays off.” First because they are exhausted. But also because they mistakenly assume …
Read More »Recruiting Dropped From Second To Eighth On HR’s Priority List – So Focus On Increasing Your Job Security
With this painfully low priority ranking now is the time to build your job security as a recruiter. Yes, after years of literally being number 1 or 2 on the list of CEO/executive concerns. It’s now, unfortunately, true that a recent survey revealed that HR leaders have dropped recruiting down …
Read More »Are Layoffs Coming To Your Company? Use This Checklist To Find Out (A comprehensive checklist of the warning signs of a pending layoff at your organization)
It’s better to be prepared than surprised, so track the warning signs of your upcoming layoff. It’s important to realize that in today’s volatile business environment, each week, large-scale layoffs are becoming increasingly common. And unfortunately, the current ones can occur with little formal notice to the impacted employees (Note: …
Read More »The Quality Of The US Talent Pool Is At A Record High… So Start Cherry Picking Exceptional Talent
Experts seldom mention the quality of the available talent pool, even though it’s at record levels. Yes, because of large-scale layoffs. The amount of highly qualified talent that is currently available to recruit is now at its highest level in memory. And those that follow business trends already know that …
Read More »Talent Hoarding – Can Reduce The Huge Hidden Costs Of Layoffs (A surgical approach for identifying those to be released)
Shareholders should be outraged when their execs use broad layoffs, which have a painfully low ROI. In fact, along with M&A actions, a large-scale layoff may have the most disruptive business impacts of all talent actions. So as an alternative, I recommend a “gradual and surgical release” alternative approach, which …
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