As the fierce competition for talent continues, it’s essential that both recruiters and hiring managers possess the most effective candidate convincing tools. And while recruiters tend to be pretty good at selling candidates, hiring managers often struggle. They struggle because they are frequently out of touch with the job market …
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Build a ‘Superteam’ — a Recruiting Strategy That Can Lead to Industry Domination!
If you are a recruiting leader who wants to have a significant strategic impact, approach your CEO with the idea of building a “Superteam” at your firm. You don’t have to look any further than the Golden State Warriors or the New England Patriots to understand the tremendous long-term value that …
Read More »Influence Your CEO With WOW And OW! Talent Data
As seen on Visier. This “think piece” is designed to challenge your thinking on talent metrics/analytics Everyone in HR should be aware that among the global business concerns of CEO’s, Human Capital is literally the top issue. And, unfortunately, Human Capital has been their #1 concern for four years in …
Read More »The Critical Role of Data In Talent Acquisition
Happy Independence day! As seen on Visier by Josie Sutcliffe. According to Dr. Sullivan, Human Capital is the #1 global business challenge facing CEOs for the fourth year in a row. This is because few CEOs are confident in the quality of their Human Capital metrics. Often what is shared …
Read More »Don’t Just Fix What’s Broken In Recruiting, Consider What You’re Not Doing
Identifying the key program omissions in talent acquisition One of the key characteristics of strategic leaders is that they don’t just focus on refining existing processes, they are also forward-looking. So they continually ask themselves the strategic question “What is missing that we should be adding?” It’s easier to focus …
Read More »Top Performers Produce 4x More Output and Higher Quality Referrals
Top performers have an incredibly high ROI Articles from academics don’t always provide practical lessons, but there have been two recent ones that everyone in talent management should pay attention to. The results of the first one focus on the output differential produced by top performers. This study published in February …
Read More »Revealing 3 Leading Edge Talent Practices From the Silicon Valley
Practices: The return of talent agents; HR owns M&A; and hiring without degrees Anyone who tracks advanced trends in talent management knows that many of them originated in the Silicon Valley. However, you probably also know that many of the publicized practices that start in the Silicon Valley are so …
Read More »[Webinar] 2010 Talent Acquisition Trends: Q & A on Recommended Action Steps
Prepare action step outlines — it’s not necessary to complete a detailed written plan for every possibility, but you should prepare an action outline highlighting the key steps that you would take for the most likely upcoming events. Develop these steps using if-then scenarios (i.e. if this happens, then we …
Read More »Crowdsourcing: A Red-Balloon-Finding Contest Shows the Future of Recruiting
A Contest to Identify the Most Effective “Finding Tool” This story begins with a famous government agency, DARPA, wanting to test the effectiveness of the available tools/approaches to locate missing objects or individuals, i.e., pieces of downed aircraft, wanted criminals, or missing children. Because this task was so large in …
Read More »Emerging Talent Acquisition Trends For 2010: Are You Ready for a Roller Coaster? (Part III of III)
Action steps for handling the power shift There are four primary action steps that you should consider when the competition for attracting and retaining talent once again becomes intense for your organization: Jugaad is now required: The intense competition for candidates that occurs in a war for talent, coupled with …
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