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 …
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Top Candidates Are Gone Within 10 Days … So Assign Each A ‘Hire-By-Date’
By Dr. John Sullivan February 15, 2016 | ERE If business people ran recruiting … they would assign a “hire by date” to each must-hire candidate, because these valuable in-demand candidates are likely to be quickly out of the job market. Perhaps an example will help you understand the concept of …
Read More »Develop a “1-Day Hiring” Program to Avoid Losing In-Demand Candidates, Part 1 of 2
The average time to fill an average job in the United States is 25 days; unfortunately, in many cases top candidates are no longer available after 10 days. You may think that making quick hiring decisions would lower the quality of your hire, but the reality is that in most …
Read More »Steps for Increasing Your Speed of Hire in Order to Improve Your Quality of Hire, 2 Part article
This two-part in-depth article covers the how-to steps that corporate recruiters can use to speed up their hiring process. Speed of hire is an important topic for recruiting leaders because without it you won’t be able to successfully land high-quality candidates who are in and out of the job market …
Read More »The Top 12 Reasons Why Slow Hiring Severely Damages Recruiting and Business Results
A candidate from a well-known benchmark firm dropped out of our search for a General Manager position because the hiring manager took a week to respond to his interest. He said… It’s not like I need their job. If it takes them a week to respond to a resume like …
Read More »[Webinar] – Employee Referrals: Advanced Approaches
Date/Time: Thursday, February 27, 2014, 2:00 pm ET Duration: 60 minutes Registration: Register for this free webinar Exceptional Practices That Will Elevate Your Referral Program To Elite Status If you have been operating a corporate employee referral program (ERP) for a while and now you’ve decided that it’s time …
Read More »Best Practices in Recruiting: Develop a “Most Wanted” List
As a consultant, I have the opportunity to visit dozens of firms each year, and without a doubt the most frequently asked question is, “What are the best practices in recruiting?” Well, one best practice that always appears near the top of my list is developing a “most wanted” list. …
Read More »Gaining A Competitive Advantage Through Increasing “The Speed Of Hire”
Want to achieve extraordinary results? Set unreasonable timetables! – John Patrick IBM Strategist What is the speed of hire? A deliberate strategy for improving the quality of our hires by decreasing the cycle time for making a hiring decision. Don’t confuse speed of hire with “time to fill”. Speed of …
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