For the past two days, I have been attending and speaking at the first ever Talent Officer Conference in Austin, Texas. Where else for BIG ideas? Sponsored … Read more
Let Centers of Higher Education Become Your Hiring Centers
If the search for candidates has you coming up empty-handed, you might want to consider going back to school…to look for candidates, that is. … Read more
Supply Chain Recruiting
E-business is in the news. Not a week goes by without a few old economy companies announcing their plans to form an online marketplace. The Big Three … Read more
Re-Recruit Your Top Talent…If You Want Loyalty, Buy A Dog!
If you want to retain your best workers it takes hard work! Gone are the days when employees would stay at a firm and make it a career. It’s no … Read more
So, Who Wants to Hire a Future Manager?
For the longest time, it was assumed that only members of the technical trades who use a computer in their daily routine would also use the Internet to … Read more
Learning from a Parallel Universe: What Sports Agents Can Teach Us
Parallel universes–universes that mirror our own but add some reflection and distortion–help us look at ourselves in a different way. One of … Read more
Top Ten Reasons Most Companies Do Not Really Consider Staffing Their Number One Priority!
Pick up any newspaper, any professional HR magazine, any newsletter or business journal “of record” from any segment of industry–even the … Read more
Getting Managers to Pay Attention to Resumes: “Five Greats, No Uglies.”
Why don’t managers pay more attention to recruiting? Of all the questions I get from HR professionals, this is by far the most common. Managers often … Read more
Get The Best By Growing The Best: Summer Employment as a Recruiting Strategy
Summer is here, and students everywhere are looking for a summer job. Many will flip hamburgers or work as camp counselors, when they could be working for … Read more
Much Ado about Testing
An applicant takes a battery of tests. Three trained professionals examine the scores. One professional exclaims, “We have found our candidate! Hire … Read more