One joke can quietly hurt diversity, raise anxiety, and make interviewees feel like they won’t fit. In addition, most of these icebreaker jokes don’t even meet the practice’s primary goals of relaxing the candidate, reducing anxiety, and making the candidate more open to talking. So why do so many interviewers …
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An “Interview Preview” – It Improves Hiring By Reducing Interviewee Anxiety (An introduction to white-glove interviewing)
The easiest way to raise the interview’s low predictive value is by reducing candidate anxiety. Yes, it’s a fact that Google research, unfortunately, found that most interviews were no more predictive than a coin flip. And academic research has further shown us that one of the primary reasons for the …
Read More »When You Must Hire The Very Best… Extreme Referral Tools Will Have The Most Impact (It’s time to shift to bolder recruiting tools)
Tired of weak results? Blame cautious recruiters that won’t try more aggressive recruiting tools. Understanding Why Extreme Recruiting Approaches Are Necessary One of the primary reasons why most hiring managers have long been frustrated with the number of top candidates that they are receiving. This is because risk-averse recruiters (most …
Read More »Recruiting Leaders Your Future Is Dim – Guidelines For Your Transition Into AI
AI’s capability is so great that TA leaders that can’t drive the transition will be replaced. Note: The goal of this short piece is to get TA leaders to plan for their transition into AI. AI is currently dominating both national and business news, and that importance will persist for …
Read More »Hire Faster – By Reducing “Quickly-Ended” Initial Interviews (A small fixable problem with significant negative impacts)
A quickly-ended interview is when after 1-2 unsatisfactory candidate answers, you just want to end it. And afterward, frustrated hiring managers will openly wonder why this clearly flawed candidate was ever scheduled for an interview. These problematic interviews are labeled as “quickly-ended” because, during the first few minutes, they were …
Read More »The Key Driver Of Every Company’s Bottom-Line… Will Be A High-Volume Pipeline Full Of AI Candidates
The Future of Strategic Recruiting will use tools like Evergreen Jobs to create an AI talent pipeline. As you will learn later, this AI talent pipeline will soon be necessary for any company to achieve its bottom-line results. This “always recruiting tool” that I am highlighting here enables companies to …
Read More »Improve Hiring Instantly… Simply Add An Interview Scheduling App (Seldom does a simple addition have such a measurable impact on your results)
Note that the lengthy back-and-forth of most interview scheduling is the longest hiring delay factor! Yes, using something as slow as a people-driven traditional interview scheduling process. Could, in some cases, lengthen the overall hiring process by up to 50%. And having an overly long time period to complete all …
Read More »You’ll Never Achieve Great Hiring Until You Better Document Your Interviews
46% of hires fail, and Google found interviews can have a lower predictive value than a coin flip. Also, research by Gallup found that “Companies fail to choose the candidate with the right talent for the job 82% of the time.” In my experience, you can fairly blame the common …
Read More »Revisiting Top Talent Failures – Recruiting Sources That Only The Best Use
Most “revisits” are top prospects that applied, and came close, but were never hired during a job search. So they can be classified as top-talent failures. However, I find that these talent failures are right under your nose. It should be considered as a top-quality talent pool instead. It is …
Read More »The Elimination Of All Sourcing Jobs… Is Being Accelerated By AI
Note: Sourcing jobs led the recent wave of recruiting layoffs at top firms like Amazon and Meta. So in the near future, be prepared for the day when AI-generated search algorithms will permanently replace almost all the work human sourcers have done. Just like not long ago when ATS screening …
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