There may be a disconnect between candidates and employers, an incongruence in where candidates and employers spend time searching each other. This is … Read more
Recruiting’s Missed Strategic Opportunity — Competitive Intelligence Gathering
This “think piece” is designed to stimulate your thinking about activities that recruiting should be doing, but most do not. During a job interview with a … Read more
Personality Tests Can Have Unintended Consequences
It’s generally accepted that personality tests are not a reliable tool for making employee selection decisions. But how about other management and OD uses? … Read more
Fixing the Relationship Between Tech Recruiters and Developers
The relationship between recruiters and developers is a rocky one. In 2013 Joel Spolsky, the CEO of Stack Overflow, famously exploded Twitter asking a … Read more
What’s On the Minds of Talent-acquisition Leaders
It’s 7:25 a.m. on a crisp NYC spring morning and I’m sitting at the back table at Ai Fiori at the Langham Hotel in Manhattan waiting for the last of six … Read more
Recruiting Is a Science Not an Art — How Intuition Hurts Recruiting Results
The future of recruiting is scientific, data-driven, and businesslike. The roadblock to that transition is our current “art not science” approach where … Read more
Texting Candidates from Your Personal Cell Phone? Here’s Why You Should Stop
One study found that 70 percent of companies say time to fill was reduced when using text messaging as the primary form of communication. But could you be … Read more
Eliminate This Common Issue That Undermines Effective Recruiting and Hiring
Most leaders agree that implementation and follow-through are required for business success. Organizations that execute their well-thought-out plans … Read more
Embracing AI Techniques in Recruiting Could Help Women
There has been a lot of ink spilled on hiring processes that use AI for end-to-end recruiting that fall short by magnifying the biases inherent in the data … Read more