As a recruiter, how would you describe the culture at Apple, Microsoft, AT&T, or at your own organization? Being able to distill the essence of an … Read more
8 Questions About Your Hiring Process
What is the most important factor in successfully recruiting top candidates? If you said things like salary, benefits, or the economy, you’d be wrong. It’s … Read more
Implementing a Hiring Strategy to Maximize Financial ROI — Part of a Series
In earlier articles in this series, I made the contention that the average talent level of most companies hasn’t increased in the past 10 years. I contend … Read more
Play Nice
Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. –Annie Lennox I recently finished reading the book The Power … Read more
3 Questions to Ask About Candidate Experience
What is the importance of candidate experience to your recruiting process? How do you evaluate your candidate experience to understand its current impact, … Read more
Hiring: What You Don’t Know Hurts!
When I was a kid, I watched adults get their teeth pulled and replaced by dentures. My kid-brain thought it was normal. When I grew up, my adult brain … Read more
Finding the Failure Points in Your Recruiting Process — Some Final Approaches
Some recruiting directors don’t like it when I criticize them for not operating their recruiting function in a more businesslike manner. They fail to … Read more
Should the Recruiting Department Be Charged with Financial Malfeasance?
Earlier this year I presented a financial model that demonstrated that on average, hiring a C+ person instead of a B+ person costs a company somewhere … Read more
President Orders End to Job Seeker “Black Hole”
The federal government is about to do what the private sector can do, knows it should, but doesn’t. That’s to let job candidates know where … Read more
The Steps of the Recruiting Process … and How to Identify Failure Points
It might surprise you to know that the average recruiter cannot name the distinct steps in the recruiting process, nor the goals or common failure points … Read more