Sourcing

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 …

In our competitive and fast-moving world, failure is now a certainty. And even though it may sound counterintuitive, instead of the traditional approach of automatically rejecting candidates who have experienced failure in their jobs, today, we should instead be considering “failure as the greatest teacher.” We should begin considering those …

Remember that you felt guilty when, as a highly loyal employee, circumstances forced you to quit. And then you wished there was some way to repay the company/manager that had been so good to you. Well, fortunately, there is a way for a loyal employee to make one last contribution …

Rather than being constant, the supply of talent often suddenly increases after a recent event. So in order to maximize its impact, a recruiting strategy must have the capability of identifying what I call these “Sudden Recruiting Opportunities.” These SROs are sudden and unexpected surges in talent availability. And if …

A growing source for discovering hidden talent is scanning through online work in a given field. This sourcing approach mirrors the way you’d find a little-known artist: not through a resume (which may have been written by AI) or past job titles, but by reviewing their actual work on the …

Most are surprised to learn how difficult it is to staff new AI data centers (AIDC). That’s important because the billions budgeted for new AIDCs will be wasted if the new centers cannot maintain continuous operations due to serious recruiting and retention issues. Staffing these AIDC jobs will be exceptionally …

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 …

Apple recently lost its iconic iPhone designer to OpenAI and another iconic designer to Meta. The loss of two of Apple’s icons should be considered a warning sign of things to come. Apple has been known for years for its exceptional retention rate among its senior executives. Smart recruiting leaders …

Job posts have an astonishing 90% failure rate because only 10% of those who view them apply. Fortunately, you can cut that failure rate for your most valuable recruiting targets (top performers) by up to one third. By merely shifting the content of your job posts away from listing job …

With record applications (up 45%), mostly from AI agents, 20% of employers are considering pay to apply. “Pay to apply” is a process for discouraging the shotgunning of applications by charging a small application fee to candidates. And incidentally, the “AI agents” driving this massive increase in resumes aren’t people. …