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
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
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
A Perfect Week, The Perfect Day: Time Management for Recruiters
One of the best things about being a recruiter is that you can pretty much predict the events and activities that will occur during the day. It’s … Read more
Fixing the American Economy: A Recruiter’s Revolutionary Proposal
Something is terribly wrong. I can’t put my finger on its exact nature, but I know that America’s capacity for creating jobs and generating … Read more