Would you be open to explore a situation that’s clearly superior to what you’re doing today? This is what you need to ask top candidates when … Read more
Online Recruiting Evolves
Remember the days when Internet recruiting meant posting an opening on an online career center in lieu of a print ad? In those days, recruitment technology … Read more
Periodic Potpourri: The First Set of?Results
In a medley of graphs and words, this week’s article and next week’s will paint your own self-portrait of the state of recruiting, April 2002, … Read more
Your Employment Product
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