Imagine that this letter appeared on the first page of your company’s career website, or perhaps on your company’s home page in place of the … Read more
Police Shortages: Finding the Bad Boys of Tomorrow
While there is a shortage of police officers in federal jobs, the country is also facing a shortage of local police recruits, leaving law-enforcement … Read more
Uncle Sam’s Most Wanted
The government is desperate. It’s alarmingly short of talented police officers, food inspectors, prison guards, airport screeners, border patrol … Read more
Look for Ways to Measure the Right Brain
Daniel Pink’s work has been called a “miracle” by Tom Peters, while Tom Friedman has called A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will … Read more
The Corporate Recruiter’s Guide to Competing with Agency Recruiters
This article originally appeared January 17, 2007. Agency folks tend to see the corporate world as bureaucratic and slow to make decisions; more … Read more
Salary Resources: PayScale’s New Partnership and IT Trends
Corporate Executive Board has joined forces with PayScale to offer the Seattle-based company’s compensation data as part of a new premium member … Read more
Seven Secrets of Sourcing
I like lists; on-the-go literary distillations that tell a story. Here’s another one about sourcing. The best lists are presented with a pinch of … Read more
Increasing Offer Acceptance Rates When Your Company Pays Crummy Wages, Part 2 of 2
It seems that nearly every recruiter, at some point in his or her career, has been forced to present an offer that was an insult to the candidate and an … Read more
Internet Recruiting
Platinum Recruiter by infoGIST This month, I am happy to review the newly released Platinum Recruiter from infoGIST. With the big job boards not paying off … Read more
Baby Boomers Going Virtual Could Upturn Recruiting as We Know It
One year or so out from the beginning of the biggest retirement surge in history, the United States could be about to experience a titanic shift that could … Read more