Online screening has received a great deal of attention lately, and after a recent experience I had with it, I couldn’t help but chime in. As part of … Read more
Welcome To Opportunity Gap, Home of the Stars!
Top candidates are still the stars of the recruiting trade. They are also very different from ordinary candidates. And if you want to hire your share of … Read more
Outsourcing Talent Acquisition? Maybe You Should Think Twice
As organizations respond to the tough financial environment and a lessened (albeit temporary) demand for talent, many are considering outsourcing their … Read more
A Skilled Workforce Is a Cash Multiplier
This article, the first in a series, covers some of the dramatic changes human capital management has undergone during this last year. This series of … Read more
Countering Layoffs with Round-World Thinking
You have to wonder, why is it that every time there’s an economic slowdown, the RIF, redundancy, right-sizing, and layoff mindset takes over, and … Read more
Talent Swapping: Hiring Without Impacting Headcount
It’s ironic that, at the same exact time that CFOs are instituting hiring freezes and demanding that we add “no new headcount,” there … Read more
Knowledge is Power: The Value of Research
Used properly, research is perhaps the most powerful tool in the world of marketing and advertising. Marketing departments use several forms of research to … Read more
Recruiting Trends: A Brief Survey
Will you help me ? and your fellow readers? This has been an extraordinary year ? a year of tragedies and events that were unimaginable. Because of the … Read more
Data Minefields in Global Recruitment
In recent years cross-border and multinational recruitment has increased tremendously, be it recruiting foreign nationals to work in North America or … Read more
Six-Sigma Hiring
I keep hearing about Six-Sigma hiring. I guess it was only time before HR started using quality improvement tools. I just hope they are ready to discover … Read more