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Lou Adler

Lou Adler is the CEO and founder of The Adler Group – a training and search firm helping companies implement Performance-based Hiring℠. Adler is the author of the Amazon top-10 best-seller, Hire With Your Head (John Wiley & Sons, 3^rd Edition, 2007). His most recent book has just been published, The Essential Guide for Hiring & Getting Hired (Workbench, 2013). He is also the author of the award-winning Nightingale-Conant audio program, Talent Rules! Using Performance-based Hiring to Build Great Teams (2007).

When Being Great in the Hiring Process Is Overrated

Lou AdlerNovember 17, 2022

If you want to make your hiring a routinely formal business process, being pretty good at everything is usually good enough. The real problem with hiring … Read more

Spend Less on Job Advertising and More on Recruiters

Lou AdlerAugust 4, 2022

The economy will recover, and the most important thing you can do now is to upgrade the quality of your recruiting team. I’d like to make a business … Read more

How to Improve Your Recruiting Batting Average 25 Points

Lou AdlerJune 11, 2014

I’ve been missing from these pages for awhile, but I asked if I could return and request the help of some real recruiters. I heard some of the best hang … Read more

I’ll Say It Again: We Need to Get Rid of Resumes and Job Descriptions

Lou AdlerApril 18, 2014

Editor’s Note: Sometimes readers ask about past TLNT articles. That’s why we republish a Classic TLNT post every Friday. As some of you may know, I … Read more

Why You Shouldn’t Waste Your Time Recruiting Passive Candidates

Lou AdlerAugust 2, 2013

Editor’s Note: Sometimes, readers ask about past TLNT articles they may have missed. That’s why on Fridays we republish a Classic TLNT post some of you … Read more

Want a Candidate to Succeed? Then Define What It Takes to Be Successful

Lou AdlerApril 30, 2013

If a manager is concerned about hiring a high achiever, you need to be concerned about the manager! We just ran a quick poll to determine if hiring … Read more

Why You Can’t Hire High Achievers

Lou AdlerApril 25, 2013

If a manager is concerned about hiring a high achiever, you need to be concerned about the manager! We just ran a quick poll (see question and results in … Read more

Why ‘Source of Hire’ Should Drive a Company’s Talent Acquisition Strategy

Lou AdlerApril 12, 2013

I decided to ask 1,582 U.S. company employees how they go their last job. I gave them four choices: Internal move or promotion Some type of proactive … Read more

Want to Be Great? Here Are the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Recruiters

Lou AdlerMarch 28, 2013

We just updated our Recruiter Circle of Excellence Competency Model to take into account the expected surge in hiring in Q2 and Q3. There was also an … Read more

7 Ideas for Becoming a More Effective Recruiter

Lou AdlerMarch 27, 2013

We just updated our Recruiter Circle of Excellence Competency Model to take into account the expected surge in hiring in Q2 and Q3. There was also an … Read more