I almost broke out laughing when I came across an article in Fast Company magazine entitled Why You Can’t Find Women Engineers. This title reflects a … Read more
Employee-driven Non-compete Litigation: A New Hook on an Old Line
Hypothetical situation: John Smith, an employee with Fast and Speedy Cab Co., a taxi company, leaves his position as a dispatcher. Smith and Fast and … Read more
Stop Your Firm’s Brain Drain – Convincing Innovators to Choose an Established Firm Over a Startup
John Sullivan and Trena Luong There is an innovator brain drain going on.… Read more
Talent Management Lessons From the Super Bowl for Corporate Leaders
A couple years back I was asked to outline “the future of talent management” in a talk at Google headquarters. Then as now, I predicted the future of … Read more
Oil and Pregnancy Don’t Mix, But Apples and Berries Do
Maybe not so much for apples and oranges, but BlackBerrys and Apples do indeed mix. Within days of last month’s announcement of 4,500 upcoming … Read more
The Government Shutdown Provides a Great Recruiting Opportunity
It’s hard to miss the troubling news about the “government shutdown” and the “debt default crisis,” but what has not received a lot of press attention is … Read more
A Look at the Retention and Attraction Competition Between 7 Tech Companies
Headhunting from your competitors is a great place to start recruiting, and a strategy that everyone employs. So this must also be the case when companies … Read more
Comparing the Competencies Between a “RINO” and an Exceptional Recruiter
Recruiting is a unique field because it has no entry barriers. Unlike most professions, you can become a corporate recruiter without any formal … Read more
USC Lures Two Top Scientists: A Case Study in Recruitment Poaching
After years of unsuccessfully courting two of the world’s preeminent neuroscientists with offers of more money, bigger and better facilities, a … Read more
Don’t Blame The Headhunters — Get Better at Keeping Your Employees
While working in-house as a headhunter (the real market-mapping and cold-call headhunting “headhunter”) I often got asked the question about the ethics of … Read more