Applicants may also be customers: “Don’t call us…we’ll call you” is a phrase from customer service “hell.” This … Read more
Recruit Faster, Better, Cheaper: Re-engineer your Hiring Process
What slows down the recruiting process? Why can’t we make offers faster, better, cheaper than we do? Well, maybe we can. Let’s take a look at … Read more
The Most Effective Recruiting Tool: Employee Referral Systems
What’s the best recruiting tool? Web pages, relationship recruiting? It may come as a surprise to many that the tool which brings in the highest … Read more
Grow Your Own — Or How To Build the Talent You Need
Well we are now on the home stretch in discussing what makes up a world-class staffing function. Let’s continue on with a discussion on why the … Read more
Gaining A Competitive Advantage Through Increasing “The Speed Of Hire”
Want to achieve extraordinary results? Set unreasonable timetables! – John Patrick IBM Strategist What is the speed of hire? A deliberate strategy … Read more
Right Person — Right Job! Part III: Make Sure the People You Hire ‘Fit’
Over the past two weeks I have covered different aspects of what makes up a world class recruiting function. Today I continue that discussion with point … Read more
How to Continually Improve Your Recruiting Program!
Many recruiters get it all wrong! They put major effort into finding great candidates but they almost universally leave out one of the most important … Read more
Managers Are Responsible for the Recruiting Process
Last week I said there were 6 qualities that had to exist before an organization could say it had a world class staffing function. I covered point number … Read more
Recruiters’ Paradox: Use Relationship Recruiting to Get the Very Best
In the first part of this series I introduced the recruiters paradox. The Paradox is that unemployed / malcontents are the easiest people to recruit but … Read more
World-Class Staffing? How Would You Know?
We all talk about creating a world class staffing function, Yet how many of us have any guidelines for setting up such a function? Would we know a world … Read more