Every vendor in the recruiting space touts their latest recruiting and sourcing tool as the next killer app. If you were there, you saw many of them at the … Read more
We Should Be Ashamed
Top-notch job candidates are tired of the recruiting mess we have created in the U.S. I would guess that well over half of all recruiting functions are … Read more
Overqualified Need Not Apply
Ask for an inch, and you get a yard! Ask for a staff accountant, and you’re buried in resumes from those who were a controller. Ask for an IT help-desk … Read more
The 3 Dimensions to Recruiting Top Performers
Recruiting the best candidates – something I’m writing a book about, and have a much longer version of this article in the November Journal of Corporate … Read more
Hiring for Fast-growing Departments or Companies
To be a fast-growing company, whether a start-up or a new growth unit within a large corporation, there needs to be a product or service that is priced … Read more
How to Get Ready for a Surge in Replacement Hiring
Over the past few months, I’ve been tracking employee satisfaction vs. job hunting activity. Here’s the link so you can take the survey yourself, see … Read more
Sourcing Insights: No More ‘Apply or Goodbye’
“Apply or Goodbye” is a great metaphor for a transactional recruiting process. Sadly, “apply or goodbye” seems to be the end result with most recruiting … Read more
Building Candidate Pipelines: The Dilemma and Some Solutions
Developing candidate pipelines (i.e. having a ready “pool” of candidates available when a position opens up) is a topic that has been talked … Read more
Message to Candidates: Cheating Works … Sometimes!
How many applicants fake test results and assessments?Does cheating work? Is it worthwhile?What can you, the employer, do about it? Read more
Countercyclical Hiring: The Greatest Recruiting Opportunity in the Last 25 Years
Being strategic always requires some degree of unconventional thinking. If you are a corporate recruiting manager and you are looking for an opportunity to … Read more