Recruiting is a direct competition between firms. So, unless you’re a firm with a great employer brand like Google, Facebook or GE, focus your recruiting during the months where the competition is extremely low. And, in the U.S. and many other industrialized countries, the time period between late November and …
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CEOs Expect A Competitive Advantage, So Why Aren’t Recruiting Leaders Providing It?
This think piece is designed to stimulate recruiting leaders to the point where they will commit to providing their firm with a competitive advantage over their top recruiting competitors. There many things that recruiting can improve on, but there is one important area that is almost completely absent from corporate …
Read More »The ‘27 Names’ Strategy for Recruiting New Employees
A single job opening can expand hiring possibilities exponentially, if you leverage WSJ Leadership Expert John Sullivan’s strategy. (Originally published in the WSJ Experts July 21, 2016 1:15 pm ET). One of the toughest challenges in business is to find qualified, experienced workers. Especially in industries like tech or manufacturing where …
Read More »Talent Attraction Strategies that Drive Competition in the War for Talent
Dr. John Sullivan is an internationally known HR thought-leader from the Silicon Valley who specializes in providing bold and high business impact; strategic Talent Management solutions. In this podcast, he shares the top 13 most impactful strategies for competing for talent. To learn more about the underwriter of this podcast …
Read More »[Webinar] [Slides] MOST INNOVATIVE RECRUITING STRATEGIES USED BY LEADING FIRMS
On August 26, 2015, Dr John Sullivan partnered with ERE Media to post the most innovative recruiting strategies used by the leading firms. The slides have been enclosed. ERE Webinar Slides by Dr John Sullivan
Read More »It’s Embarrassing: Every Business Function Measures Quality, Except Recruiting
Recruiting Is Literally the Last Function to Measure It’s Output Quality Quality is such an easy-to-understand thing. It is an improvement in performance above and beyond the ordinary. Since the 1980s, every internal corporate business function has found a way to measure the quality of its outputs, whether they are …
Read More »The Top 10 Thought-provoking CFO ‘Questions From Hell’ for Recruiting Leaders
Recruiting questions from hell that most recruiting leaders can’t answer May I suggest that this may be the most thought-provoking recruiting article that you read this year. It is thought provoking because it covers mind-numbing questions that you are likely to get covering the business impacts of recruiting. Answering tough …
Read More »Increased Recruiting Spending Gets You in the NCAA Tournament and Improves Business Results
The data is in and it’s clear that heavy spending on recruiting is critical if a university wants to get into the men’s NCAA tournament. This positive correlation between recruiting spending and success in sports should be noted by corporate recruiting leaders because it could help support their business case …
Read More »Hire Self-Motivated People — the Single Smartest Thing a Hiring Manager Can Do
How recruiters can become a hero of your hiring managers by dramatically reducing the number of hours that they have to spend motivating and watching their employees If you are a corporate manager, you already know that you routinely spend a significant portion of your time trying to motivate your …
Read More »College Recruiting on a Shoestring Budget – ERE Community Q&A
Questions & Answers How do you make the business case to managers who believe now is not the time to be recruiting college grads/interns, etc.? What are the long-term consequences of stopping college recruiting? Any time you make a business case you need to address the concerns of your audience …
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