Dear Hiring Manager: You probably only hire a handful of people each year and your recruiter usually does a reasonable job of getting decent people. Sure, … Read more
How to Avoid the Four Deadliest Onboarding Mistakes
An investment in effective onboarding is an investment in employee retention, morale, and productivity. Research at Corning Glass Works revealed that … Read more
Poaching the Best Talent Worldwide
Few topics in the field of recruiting evoke such strong opinions as the subject of poaching talent, but it is a topic that must be explored further. In the … Read more
10 Steps to Finding and Hiring Diversity and High-Demand Candidates
Here are two basic principles of recruiting that you need to apply when targeting passive candidates, diversity candidates, or any type of candidates in … Read more
Don’t Miss the Next Strategic Turn
People who didn’t believe in the Internet as a sourcing medium 10 years ago started to look pretty foolish about five years ago. Likewise, some … Read more
What Is Talent?
About once a year I get the feeling that we aren’t making any progress in really improving our approaches to acquiring and retaining talent. Perhaps … Read more
How To Lose a Candidate in 10 Ways
Murphy’s Law states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Obviously, Murphy was a recruiter. If he did something else for a living, he would … Read more
How to Find a Great Recruiter, Part 3
Any good recruiter knows that there are literally thousands of approaches that can be used to source, assess, and hire a great recruiter, and that the best … Read more
How to Negotiate Compensation
Sometimes you just don’t have enough money in the budget to attract a top person. The following compensation negotiation techniques will allow you … Read more
Hiring Smarter as the Workforce Gets Older
The U.S. workforce is growing steadily older. From 1930 to 1970, the median age went from 26 to 28, an increase in age equal to about two weeks per year. … Read more