If you need a new job or want more job security, consider gaining experience using AI tools. Why? Because it is now becoming clear to executives everywhere that the availability of AI tools (like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and AI-powered search) will have a profound impact on productivity and what each …
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Don’t Penalize Them, Instead Target Early Adopters That Used AI In Their Job Search
Experience using AI tools will soon be the most needed skill, so targeting users of AI job search tools makes sense. Unfortunately, most in recruiting don’t realize that, even though there is a great deal of talk about hiring AI experts to develop their own internal AI systems. In reality, …
Read More »The Case Against… Hiring Underqualified Candidates (With the potential to grow into the job)
You shouldn’t hire those who lack qualifications but have the potential to develop on-the-job. Even though some hiring managers have used this strategy, they mistakenly believed that recruiting and hiring “underqualified candidates with the potential to develop on-the-job” would be easier to source, sell, and hire than the alternative of …
Read More »Hiring Is Broken – Fix It By Learning From Your Hiring Failures (Clearly defining a hiring failure)
Data reveals that 46% of recent hires fail, and managers wouldn’t rehire up to 50% of their hires. Now, assume for a minute that you are one of your company’s top executives in a business world where “failure analysis” is an expected business practice. You were presented with data showing …
Read More »The Costliest Failure In Recruiting – “Settling” For The Number 2 Candidate
You won’t hire a number 2 candidate for a critical job after you discover the high cost of settling. The definition of “settling” includes “accepting less than the best.” To me, that doesn’t sound like a desirable recruiting result. Until now, after losing your number one candidate, you most likely …
Read More »Competitor Talent Mapping – A Powerful Recruiting Tool That No One Uses (Despite its numerous benefits)
Competitor talent mapping identifies the best recruiting targets at your competitors. This competitive intelligence approach’s strength is identifying top talent at your competitors before you need to recruit them. So that there is time to assess thoroughly, and in some cases, build a relationship with them. This extra pre-hire time …
Read More »Outrageous Recruiting Is Back… Because The Competition For AI Talent Is Now So Intense
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 …
Read More »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 …
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