When your conservative recruiting can’t compete with $100M sign-ons, your aggressiveness must increase. This Is A Think Piece – whose goal is to encourage you to scrutinize the current level of aggressiveness in your recruiting strategy. If You Haven’t Noticed, “Outrageous Recruiting” (OR) Is Back If you were involved in …
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Stop Using Generation Stereotypes – Because They Hurt Your Recruiting Results
3 things to know This approach doesn’t hire better performers who stay longer. It blatantly ignores gender differences. The intra-generational differences are created based on how and where a candidate was brought up. So any assumption that all generation members share the same attributes is flawed. Treating candidates differently “based …
Read More »Apex Recruiters… You May Need Them For Strategic Impact Jobs
Alert: It’s now a business imperative to fill your strategic impact jobs with top talent. So if you’re struggling to successfully recruit for your strategic impact jobs in hot areas like AI and robotics, this article will provide you with some answers and action tips on how you can improve …
Read More »Recruit During The Summer… When The Jobseeker Pool Is The Largest (The right time recruiting strategy)
Surprisingly, August had the most jobseekers, while July and June ranked #3 and #4. Yes, it’s true. Over the last 12 months, if you wanted to recruit during the time period that had the largest pool of unemployed US jobseekers, you would have recruited during the summer months (BLS). Timing …
Read More »After The Fire, The Best Will Be Recruiting In LA (Helping residents while filling your jobs)
A post-disaster strategy allows you to hire from the large talent pool that the LA fires created. The goal – to highlight the benefits of the “post-disaster recruiting strategy.” The Benefits of a Post-Disaster Recruiting Strategy Because of its high ROI and the competitive advantage that it offers, corporate talent …
Read More »Hit Your Competitors Where It Hurts — Adopt the Hire-to-Hurt Strategy
Access to this article is limited to fierce competitors Most CEOs are fierce competitors. They love my strategy of “targeting your competitor’s top talent, because hiring them makes you stronger, while your competitors simultaneously get weaker.” It’s a two-for-one deal. You might assume that most corporate recruiting leaders share their …
Read More »Recruiting’s Missed Strategic Opportunity — Competitive Intelligence Gathering
Not having a competitive intelligence (a.k.a. CI) gathering process is a missed opportunity for recruiting to increase its strategic contribution and its direct business impacts.
Read More »12 Effective Ways to Assess Candidates’ Soft Skills
As seen on LinkedIn Talent Blog, July 25, 2017. When asked, recruiters say that screening candidates for soft skills are one of the top areas they want to learn more about. That’s because soft skills (think leadership, relationship building, communications, adaptability, strategic thinking, learning and interpersonal skills) take up to …
Read More »Frustrated With Your Recruiting Results? Ask New Hires ‘What Worked’
As seen on ERE Media (April 5, 2017). It’s a basic law for business process improvement. When your process is completed, you survey your users to find out what worked and what didn’t work. In recruiting, it turns out that identifying “what worked” is the second-most impactful of all internally …
Read More »Don’t Pass on Game Changer Candidates Who Are Still Rookies
A white paper for distribution to talent acquisition leaders and other customers of College Recruiter. Professional sports lead the way in recruiting “game changer” candidates that are still untried rookies, while in the corporate world; most of the inexperienced are simply passed over. If you’re not familiar with the term …
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