Over the last decade of my career, I have spoken to and received feedback from hundreds of talent acquisition, HR, and business executives. One theme rings … Read more
Hiring Managers Think Recruiters Are Getting Worse – Here’s What To Do About It
The topic of my talk at the ERE conference in New Orleans this fall is “Using Data to Drive a Consultative, Proactive Talent-Acquisition Function.” … Read more
A Little-known Fortune 100 Company Is Trying to Become a ‘Talent Factory’
A not-well-known company that’s nonetheless one of the U.S.’s largest, operating in 160 countries with about $47 billion in revenue, is trying … Read more
70% of Recruiters Don’t Care or Are Clueless: Long Live AI Recruiting
I try to not to get all worked up over recruiters being replaced by robots, or recruiting-is-dead click-bait articles, but some of them are just annoying … Read more
Relegating Cost Per Hire to Its Rightful Place
Lou Adler and Dr. John Sullivan have long questioned the validity of the cost-per-hire metric on these pages. Indeed, John has even gone as far as … Read more
Leadership’s Effect on Recruiting
There has long been an assumed link between the quality of leadership a company has and its ability to attract and retain great people. But why is that? Is … Read more
Challenge: Name the Recruiting Results With the Highest Impact on Business Performance
This article covers the tremendous value that comes from adding “risk management” to recruiting. Now you are probably thinking, “I’m in recruiting, why on … Read more
The Next Generation of Recruiting Benchmarking Is Here
People ask me all the time why I got off the corporate TA executive leadership track to join ERE Media. Did they fire you Rob? Did you get bored? Quite … Read more
In Recruiting, Back to Basics Does More Harm Than Good
Back to basics is terrible strategy. Having to engage in such a wasteful activity means people were allowed to stray from these core best practices. Why … Read more
The Right to Hire Fast, Not Slow
The rights of people around the world have been a hot topic for centuries. Most people in the modern world agree that certain rights should be inalienable, … Read more