Recruiting Tools

“Recruiting is just sales with a crummy budget.” So why haven’t recruiting leaders learned a lesson about incentives from their company’s sales function? Because sales leaders consistently operate under the proven idiom of “what you reward gets done.” So at least to me, everyone in the talent world should be …

I never had TV-hiring tips until Freddy was labeled as the best worker in his industry. Like most recruiters, I haven’t found TV shows to be a great source of hiring tips, until one episode of Deadliest Catch (a crab fishing documentary). It was clear that deckhand Freddy Maugatai was …

LeBron was recently recruited using a dream job offer, where the money offered him clearly came last in importance. LeBron took a whopping $97 million pay cut over two seasons to end his career with a dream job that included job factors that were clearly personalized to his current needs. …

CEOs track every battle with competitors, except recruiting!  Yes, in my experience, CEOs are competitive. (Let me correct that: they are fiercely competitive.) And they would likely go off in a rant if they heard that they lost a head-to-head recruiting battle against one of their industry’s competitors. But they …

Last year, new-hire turnover jumped a whopping 15%! So everyone involved in hiring should take notice. This type of turnover may be the most painful of all turnovers! Why New Hire Turnover Is Especially Painful Of course, all turnover hurts; however, I’ve found that new-hire turnover (where recent hires leave …

Being late to make an offer guarantees you an ugly prom date! And the only way to ensure that you have a chance to get the most attractive date is to be the first one to make an offer. And the recruiting world is no different. In our function, it’s …

Ignore spammed resumes; focus on highly interested candidates.

A record 1 in 3 under-35 adults lived with their parents in 2025. So, lacking a proper handshake, Liam may live in your basement forever! It’s ironic that during a time when hiring managers complain they can’t hire enough next-generation (aka next-gen) talent, these same hiring managers are rejecting a …

Most struggle to get the attention of applicants. Clickbaiting may be the answer! Unfortunately, a great deal of recruitment messaging is routine and dull. So often, important messages go unnoticed, and when they are spotted, the time that potential applicants spend on those messages is minuscule. However, clickbaiting recruitment messaging …

Surprisingly, summer months rank in the top 5 of applicant volume. And during 2025, the summer months of August, July, and June literally ranked 1, 2, and 3 in the months with the highest US applicant volume. So the critical lesson that hiring managers and smart recruiting leaders need to …