Over the past few years, we’ve spent a lot of time assisting many different types of organizations select and deploy a variety of staffing assessment … Read more
How Great Recruiters Get Great Recruiter Equity
Tom S. is an outstanding recruiter. More than 80% of all the candidates he sends to managers get offers. Although he has been at his company for five … Read more
Is Your Recruiting Process Like the Typewriter?
Over the past decade, the process of recruiting has gone through a dramatic evolution through the use of database technology and the Internet. Though most … Read more
Are You One of Us, Or One of Them?
In that difficult period in your youth, where you’re old enough to move about but not yet old enough to be trusted to stay at home alone, you … Read more
Hiring To Hurt: How It’s Done (Part 2)
As we saw in Part 1 of this two-part article series, many HR professionals in general ó and recruiters in particular ó act as though they are … Read more
Using Metrics to Create a Six Sigma Hiring Process
If everybody does what everybody else does, it’s a safe bet to predict that everybody will get average results. The key to success is to do something … Read more
A Letter to Hiring Managers: How To Make Sure You Always Hire the Best
Dear Hiring Manager: You probably only hire a handful of people each year, and the recruiter assigned to your team has always done a reasonable job at … Read more
Do You Pass the Test?
It’s a funny thing, but everyone and their brother seems to think that developing a test is easy. Just put a few people in a room, brainstorm … Read more
Hire To Hurt: A High-Impact Recruiting Strategy
The world of business is highly competitive. Firms frequently introduce new products or run attack ads with the specific intention to hurt their direct … Read more
Using the One-Question Behavioral Interview
A while back, I introduced the best one-question behavioral interview of all time (although I’m often accused of using hyperbole, this wasn’t … Read more