ERE reader feedback to my recent article, The Myth of the Passive Candidate, was astonishing; I was up answering personal emails and reviewing comments … Read more
What’s Your Hiring Strategy?
In past ERE articles, I’ve used the amazing iPod story as a metaphor for developing recruiting systems. The iPod is not a music player. It is a fully … Read more
Using Assessment Results to Make Smart Hiring Decisions
As assessment tools continue to become a more central part of the modern hiring process, the interpretation and use of their results are becoming an … Read more
5 Ways to Foster Internal Employee Transfers
If we believe that talented, skilled people are a scarce recourse, then we have no choice but to focus as much on internal recruiting as we do on external … Read more
Good to Great Staffing
Periodically, you read something that shakes the foundation of what you’ve come to believe. This is exactly what happened when I recently read Good … Read more
Making the Business Case to Shareholders — It’s Never Happened Before!
Any experienced businessperson knows that no one is more important in a public corporation than the shareholders, who are, in fact, the owners of the … Read more
Sourcing 101
Let’s separate fact from fiction. This will help you find and hire more top candidates. It’ll also help if you read the last two paragraphs of … Read more
Recruiting Trends Survey, Part 2
article by Kevin Wheeler and Erik Foss In this second part of our report on the findings from our recent survey on recruiting trends, we will look more … Read more
Discouraging Low Quality Applicants Allows You To Focus on the Best
It’s almost impossible to provide great customer-centric service in recruiting when you’re overwhelmed with applicants, most of whom … Read more
Developing an International Sourcing Strategy
It’s May 7, 2005 as I write this, and in today’s news, four headlines were worthy of note. They will affect you, your career, and your company: … Read more