Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. — Mark Twain See if you can place … Read more
The Top 10 Strategic Talent Areas … Where Most Firms Do Nothing
There’s no better way to start out a new year than to take one or more strategic actions. On the surface, selecting a new strategic area may seem to be … Read more
Doing These 10 Things Will Help You Recruit Successfully in 2013
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. –Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von As we emerge from the strains and … Read more
3 Things You Need to Do to Close the Prize Hire (Confessions of a Recovering Headhunter)
I’ve always thought corporate recruiters could learn a lot from “headhunters” — not because I’m biased due to years spent in third-party … Read more
Next Year’s Recruiting Headlines, Trends, and Next Practices
If you are going to be strategic, you must be forward looking. Obviously forward-looking people stay aware of current trends. I’ve written extensively on … Read more
The Cost of Quality of Hire Is Free
I was training a group of hiring managers in New York City a few weeks ago on the fine points of Performance-based Hiring. The conversation quickly focused … Read more
Recruiters: Be Your Own Therapist
Talent management and recruitment, or really any of HR’s core functions, can be one of the most rewarding professions out there. It comes ready with … Read more
Talent Strategies for a Turbulent VUCA World — Shifting to an Adaptive Approach
It’s not the big that eat the small. It’s the fast that eat the slow! –-Author Jason Jennings If the rate of change inside your firm is slower than … Read more
Assessing Whether You Have an Elite Strategic Recruiting Function — a Checklist
Corporate recruiting is a field where there are distinct and measurable differences between the average and elite functions. In short, what that means is … Read more
Use Prospect Research and Failure Analysis to Learn Why Recruiting Underperforms
When you are battling for talent in a highly competitive environment, you are likely to encounter more than your share of failures. In fact, because … Read more