Remember back in high school, when everyone seemed to follow the most popular athlete or cheerleader around? Not only did everyone follow these … Read more
Screening vs. Resumes: What Will Be the Weakest Link?
The other day I was thinking about the evolution of the online job searching and hiring process, and the thought occurred to me that the efficiency to be … Read more
To Be or Not To Be: Personality and Job Performance
Personality and job performance are often very misunderstood. For one thing, there is a tendency to look at personality and make assumptions about job … Read more
How To Organize Your Recruiting Function: The Pros and Cons of Three Models
How we organize ourselves often becomes a time-consuming political engagement that satisfies no one. Some organizations oscillate between centralized and … Read more
Leadership 103: Building a Leadership Program
If, by now, you have decided to place greater emphasis on the internal and external recruitment and development of potential leaders for your organization, … Read more
Getting Your Recruiters To Use Your ATS
Imagine you are the director of recruiting for a Fortune 1000 company. You have just completed what appears to have been a very successful implementation … Read more
106 Reasons Why New HR Programs Are Rejected
I get to work with quite a few senior HR people during the time they are proposing new HR or recruiting programs. Almost without exception, they seem … Read more
Lessons from the Recession
Now that the Federal Reserve has made public that the economic recovery is underway, we can start to consider the many valuable lessons that have been … Read more
Creating and Managing Your Talent Relationship Pipeline
One of the primary reasons a “recruiting black hole” exists is because many recruiting teams don’t realize where technology is supposed … Read more
Some Recruiting Tidbits from Recruiting Veterans
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin … Read more