Based on my experience, both as a former HR executive and as an agency owner, I believe corporate recruitment can be enhanced by borrowing strategies from … Read more
The Fallacy of Sourcing
This is an open letter to every CEO in the world. I hope you take the time to read it, as I’m sure you, your shareholders, and your employees, would hate … Read more
Increase Hiring Manager Performance and Compliance With Service-level Agreements
I estimate that hiring managers are responsible for more than 60 percent of all delays and errors during hiring. So if you want to improve your quality of … Read more
Top 10 Future Recruitment Trends
Fall 2014 ERE Conference Think Tank Session Recap Good conferences always offer great opportunities to stay on top of challenges, best practices, and … Read more
If Martian Executives Visited Recruiting … What Would They Find Missing?
It may seem like a strange proposition at first, but what if an experienced business executive who knew nothing about recruiting visited and took a … Read more
Time to Kill the Requisition?
Most corporate recruiting teams still rely on requisition-based hiring. In most cases this means they focus on recruiting for openings as they arise using … Read more
Score Some Winning Insight From a Sports Recruiter’s Perspective
Recently, I’ve become immersed in some unfamiliar recruiting territory — collegiate sports! As I work with my son, a student athlete, to navigate the … Read more
Workforce Speed — the Most Impactful Talent Factor That No One Is Managing
I work in the Silicon Valley, where we have a long-established mantra of “faster, cheaper and better.” But now no matter where you work in the world, … Read more
Today’s Rant: Consistency as a Goal
Now, I’m not an anti-consistency guy at all. To scale, to create a great experience, you need to make sure certain things are predictable and … Read more
3 Lessons Corporate In-house Recruiting Organizations Can Learn from Staffing Agencies
On average, 118 people apply for any given job — and of those 118 candidates, only 23 actually get an interview. This conundrum begs the question: … Read more