The recruiting profession is blessed with a number of tools for finding and attracting quality candidates. The Internet, our telephones, ads in newspapers … Read more
Using 21st Century Tools for Recruiters
Although the Internet has created a variety of tools for communication, data sharing, and relationship building, almost no one in recruiting uses them. Our … Read more
Don’t Let Your Worst Enemy be You!
Several years ago, on an assignment with an international computer and software developer, I was asked to assist in developing a recruiting image for its … Read more
E-Recruiting in Europe: Microcosm of Globalization?
Europe is merging into a single, unified market, with goods, capital and labor freely flowing across national boundaries. Political and economic … Read more
Maintaining Morale and Productivity During Layoffs
The uncertainty caused by layoffs can impact both companies and employees in many ways, most of them negative. During large-scale layoffs, morale and … Read more
Diversity Recruiting’s Last Frontier: The Internet
A recent analysis of the latest U.S. census data shows that a strategic corporate diversity strategy is an essential long-term corporate investment, … Read more
The Incredible Cost of a Bad Hire: Part Two
In Part One, I outlined how an “average” standard deviation in worker productivity can amount to huge dollar costs for a company. In many cases … Read more
Job Board Trends: Going Niche
In Part One of this article series, we reviewed the landscape of the recent and pending acquisitions of HotJobs, FlipDog and Headhunter.net by the industry … Read more
Service Level Agreements: Summing Up
For the past two weeks we have been discussing the value of service level agreements, or SLAs. There has been a large response to the questionnaire I … Read more
Paper Resumes…An Endangered Species?
Paper resumes. Are they going out of style? When will they really be obsolete? As I visit various large companies to help re-engineer staffing processes … Read more