Recruiting is often compared to sales, marketing, and customer service ó in that recruiting departments market and sell your company’s … Read more
Quality of Hire: What To Measure and When To Measure It
In Part 1 of this article series, we looked at the many reasons why your organization should measure the quality of its hires. Here in Part 2 we’ll … Read more
From the Front Lines: The Convergence of Methodologies and Technology
We hear and read so much about what the recruiting world will or should be, and much of the information, frankly speaking, comes from the theoretical side. … Read more
When Hiring Managers Ignore Hiring Competencies
It happens every day. Somebody gets the great idea to develop organizational competencies. A committee is formed of trainers, recruiters, and a sprinkling … Read more
How To Be an Effective Recruiting Consultant
I was in the middle of writing a paper on the intricacies of multi-site recruitment process alignment when I received an email from a very experienced … Read more
Five To Seven Years Experience Required
Dear Candidate, I am writing to thank you for expressing interest in our current opening. However, I regret to inform you that we feel that your current … Read more
Quality of Hire: Why You Should Measure It
I consider the single biggest fault with corporate and external recruiting functions to be their almost universal failure to measure the quality (or … Read more
Building a Solid Foundation
The importance of providing a good foundation for every action used to narrow down an applicant pool cannot be understated. This is a universal concern … Read more
Technology: Changing the Face of Recruitment
In a recent white paper published by the Talent Market Group, the following comment is made: “In the future, recruiting departments will see their … Read more
A Parable: Who Moved My Behavioral Interview?
This is a story I heard about sheep as a young boy, which I hope you will find as useful as I did. At the time I heard it thought it was about being … Read more