Sometimes you just can’t make this stuff up! From the land of Bad HR comes something I’ve only heard about as urban legend — the Revenge Hire! A … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: Make Sure You Don’t Let the Great Ones Get Away
Unemployment is coming down and, even if it weren’t, great employees always have their choice of employers. Case in point: I got some great service at a … Read more
Hiring Veterans: They Want a Chance to Show How Great They Can Be
Editor’s Note: This was first published on TLNT on Veterans Day 2011, but it seems equally appropriate to bring it back today. I got a chance to … Read more
How To Counteroffer Proof Your Offers
Ben Franklin said “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” It’s an old English proverb (as in Ye Olde) that goes back many centuries even prior … Read more
Baltimore’s New Ban-the-Box Law Imposes Criminal Penalties
Baltimore is the latest major U.S. city to “ban the box.” Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is expected to sign a controversial bill that prohibits both … Read more
It’s Not Control; It’s A Relationship
Dear Barb: How can I establish candidate control faster? My candidates are not providing me with information; they are not calling me back after … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: The No. 1 Reason the Wrong People Get Hired
The No. 1 reason the wrong people get hired is because we hire them for the wrong reason. No matter how logical we may try to be, most hiring decisions … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: The Winning Combination For a Top-Notch Workforce
The following is my response to an item on Retail Wire concerning the fact that The GAP has announced they are going to raise the starting wage of … Read more
Steps for Increasing Your Speed of Hire in Order to Improve Your Quality of Hire, Part 2 of 2
This continuation of the two-part article covers specific actions that corporate recruiters can implement to speed up their hiring during each individual … Read more
Step-by-Step to “Closing to the No On Money”
Dear Barb: In the past 30 days I’ve had three offers turned down and they all came down to money. I heard you teach a process that I think you called, … Read more