Have you seen this startling current job market statistic? For the first time in this century, there are more job openings than unemployed people. And this shortage of unemployed applicants means that you must shift your recruiting strategy from an unemployed/active candidate focus to one that emphasizes poaching currently employed …
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Improve Your Hiring Results With These Speed of Hire Tips
Many recruiting leaders are not aware that “the magic bullet” in recruiting is improving your speed of hire. Hiring faster improves your quality of hire because you make a hiring decision before any top candidates drop out to take a competing offer. A faster time to hire will also improve …
Read More »Implementing Innovations Requires a “Future-Acting” Workforce
If your firm competes against serial innovation and top-market-cap firms like Amazon, Apple, and Google, you already know that you must match their “speed of innovation.” But you might not realize that to reach that speed, you also need “a future-acting workforce” in order to implement the new ideas generated …
Read More »The Definitive Action Guide for Minimizing Bias and Increasing Diversity Hires (Part 1 of 2)
As seen on ERE Media June 26, 2017. There has been a great deal of recent coverage on unconscious biases. However, almost all of the attention has been on becoming aware of these unconscious biases. This is problematic because even data-driven Google could not prove that unconscious bias training actually …
Read More »Your Talent Pipeline Needs a Roto-Router Because It’s Not Producing / Part 1 of a 3 Part Series
A comprehensive name-capturing guide for identifying who should be in your recruiting pipeline Let’s get straight to the point: having an external recruiting talent pipeline is a powerful tool but almost no one does it well. You can tell if your pipeline is failing if more than 50 percent of …
Read More »The Many Benefits From A Talent Pipeline – And How It Improves Quality Of Hire / Part 2 of a 3 Part Series
If you’re looking for a powerful strategic recruiting approach that has powerful long-term impacts, you really only have two choices: employer branding, and a “recruiting talent pipeline.” While almost every major corporation is investing heavily in building their employer brand, it’s quite rare for one to actually have a high-performing …
Read More »ESports — An Under-The-Radar Social Media Community That Recruiters Should Use
By Dr. John Sullivan February 22, 2016 | ERE The dream of every corporate recruiting leader is to discover a phenomenal secret source that few in recruiting are even aware of. That recruiting source would ideally be a social media community, so its members would be “social savvy.” The new source …
Read More »Referrals From Job References — The Simplest And Cheapest Sourcing Tool
November 1, 2015 | ERE Almost everyone in recruiting agrees that employee referrals produce the highest quality of hire (i.e. superior on-the-job performance). But few are aware that the references provided by new hires, with little work, can also provide outstanding referrals. I call them “reference referrals” and both the concept …
Read More »The Benefits of a ‘Someday I Might Want to Work There’ Talent Community
Engaging those who someday might want to work at your firm We’ve all done it. At one time or another after hearing about the best practices or using the products of a firm that we admire, we have thought to ourselves “someday I might like to work there. It makes sense …
Read More »Getting It All Wrong – “The Work” Attracts Top Performers (not pay/benefits)
“It’s the work (stupid)” That is the gist of the answer that you get when you ask top performers, “What would attract you to a new job?” If you were Picasso, wouldn’t you only be attracted to a new job if it provided you with the opportunity to “do the …
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