Contests build your employer brand, attract top-tier talent, improve assessment, and yield solutions. The problem solvers who win these recruiting-related competitions are some of the most impactful of all hires. Article Descriptors| Recruiting /Sourcing – Contests to attract/assess – How to – 7 min. read What exactly is “contest recruiting/sourcing?” …
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The Most Read Talent Management Articles (Dr. Sullivan highlights 6 simple recruiting tools)
Descriptors – recruiting/tools – how to – 3 m. read During tough times, a recruiter’s knowledge of best practices is the key to job security. As the most prolific author in the field of recruiting tools (I have written over 700 articles and a book on recruiting tools). To me, …
Read More »New Year’s Resolutions For Progressive Recruiters (Simple but effective recruiting tools)
The New Year is a great opportunity for progressive recruiters to tweak their TA approach by adding small things that will make a big difference. Descriptors… recruiting/tools – how to – simple but effective – 3 min. scan Simple High-Impact New Year Resolutions For Recruiters If you are seeking small …
Read More »All Turnover Isn’t Bad… Encouraging “Good Turnover” (The positive impacts of good turnover)
The silliest practice in retention is counting all quits equally in your turnover calculations. Descriptors… retention/good turnover – eye-opening – how to – data-rich – 4 min. scan Understanding The Different Amounts of Business Impact From Each Category Of Turnover It’s a common practice to lump all employee turnover into …
Read More »All Turnover Isn’t Equal… And “Devastating Turnover” Produces The Most Damage (Prioritizing devastating turnover)
The silliest practice in retention is counting all quits equally in your turnover calculations. So the purpose of this article is to “open your mind” about the problem of measuring only aggregate “total turnover. ” And why you must begin measuring, prioritizing, and focusing on the most damaging category of …
Read More »Having A Muslim Or Jewish Name… Might Trigger Hiring Bias During This Difficult Time (The name-blinding tool)
Just seeing/hearing a candidate’s name can cause them to be rejected because of unconscious biases. So, if you want to avoid religious discrimination, consider using one of the available name-blinding methods. It’s a mistake to assume that the current Middle East conflict isn’t having a negative impact on recruiting. In …
Read More »Time Your Hiring… To When Your Recruiting Competition Is Low (The Candidate Per Opening metric)
The amazing “right time” strategy advises managers when their recruiting competition is low. Then, they can focus their recruiting during the times when they have the greatest chance of placing a truly outstanding candidate in a priority job. This think piece… is designed to startle you… after you learn about …
Read More »Take Advantage Of… This Year’s Holiday Recruiting Pause (‘Tis the season” to be recruiting)
Holiday Hiring allows average organizations to land quality candidates that they normally couldn’t. Yes, it’s true. When most major corporations temporarily pause their hiring, even the underfunded recruiting efforts at an average organization can produce amazing results during Nov/Dec. Why can they succeed during this time period? Because this slack …
Read More »Recruiting Must Accept Accountability… For Producing Great Hiring Results
Today, there’s plenty of evidence that debunks the old myth that “Recruiters don’t hire! Managers do.” Fewer Would Aggressively Resist Accountability If They Knew Its Many Benefits Since so many in recruiting appear to be passionately trying to avoid accepting accountability, it may be surprising to learn that there are, …
Read More »Most Don’t Rate HR As Strategic – Here’s Why (Outside the box actions for making HR strategic)
Not once in our history has HR convinced a majority of our business leaders that we were strategic. Yes, despite the fact that I’ve never met an HR leader who didn’t continually talk about becoming strategic. New survey data reveals that all of that talk hasn’t translated into results. And …
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