I decided to ask 1,582 U.S. company employees how they go their last job. I gave them four choices: Internal move or promotion Some type of proactive … Read more
Bold Approaches for Successfully Retaining Every Innovator, Part 2 of 2
A retention toolkit for innovators As the economy picks up and unemployment rates continue to drop, I can forecast with a good deal of certainty that the … Read more
Talent Diversity Isn’t Just About Demographic Data
On the way home from the diversity career fair, while writing job ads for the diversity publications, hiring the diversity consultants — while taking … Read more
Try Using Employee Referrals for Filling Internal Openings
Everyone knows that employee referrals produce high-quality external hires, but what most don’t know is that employee referrals can also be used to improve … 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
Adopt a “Whole Career” Strategic Hiring Model
If you are a recruiting leader, I would like to introduce you to a concept that many are not familiar with, which is “whole career employment.” The … Read more
Solving the “Candidate Sharing Problem” Using a Social Media Approach
There is probably no more misleading statement in corporate recruiting than “we will keep your application on file for six months.” While such a … Read more
20 Reasons Why LinkedIn Will Be the #1 Recruiting Portal of the Future
This week on ERE.net, there is a unified focus by a wide range of authors on the use of LinkedIn. To me, this focus is justified because LinkedIn has the … Read more
Referrals on the Rise at eBay as it Ponders How to Handle Pipeline
Employee referrals are up at eBay, the owner of such brands as PayPal and StubHub, up enough that it has candidates in a pipeline that is hasn’t … Read more
An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page — Action Steps to Avoid or Turn Around a “Great to Good” Slide (Part 2 of 2)
Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous. So, since becoming CEO again, I’ve pushed hard to … Read more