Over the past decade recruiters in many organizations have migrated from folders of resumes and stacks of paper to some type of computer system to help … Read more
Excite Your Candidates With A Project And Opportunity Description (POD)
Applicants know it and recruiters know it to… Job descriptions are boring! We WOW applicants with great web pages and savvy recruiters but when we … Read more
Evaluating Recruitment Websites
With the thousands of websites offering online recruitment how do you establish a standard of evaluating these sites? The steps outlined below will help … Read more
Hiring the College Grads You Really Want How to Structure the Offer and Get to Yes!
Structuring the offer for a college graduate these days has become complex. More of them they have choices of employers and many offers and can be very … Read more
Instead Of The Cost Of Hire?Measure The Cost Of A Bad Hire
If your company has a turnover of 20% per year and all of your new hires are mediocre, it will only take 5 years for all of your entire workforce to be … Read more
So Many Sites, So Little Money: Thinking Strategically About Your Recruiting Plan
In Part I of this series (published on December 10 — before the snow, tornadoes, floods, ice storms, and flu season) we covered alternative ways of … Read more
The Web of Influence: Building On-Campus Relationships
Last week we discussed how important it is to create a brand image for your organization on campus. Equally important, is building long-term relationships … Read more
Stop Worrying About The Cost Per Hire – A “Better Metric” Is The Quality Of Hire
I hear HR professionals say they want to be strategic but often their actions indicate otherwise. Take the all too commonly used “cost per … Read more
How to Ruin a Great Recruiting Effort with the “Orientation From Hell” – Part II
This is the second of a two part series on how to “close the sale” after a world class recruiting effort Sales Reps know it – First … Read more
Creating a “Brand”
Let’s face it; most of us who do recruiting are not very good at marketing. We may be relatively good salespeople and we may know how to close a … Read more