As Malcolm Gladwell points out is his bestseller The Tipping Point, little things can make a big difference. The same is true when it comes to finding, … Read more
Treat All Candidates as Passive to Increase Your Quality of Hire
There’s an old adage that you should treat candidates as customers. Somehow this has been forgotten in the current era of high unemployment and slow job … Read more
Don’t Waste Your Time Recruiting Passive Candidates
Every executive and hiring manager worth his or her salt will tell you hiring top talent is the most important thing they need to do. Unfortunately when it … Read more
Why You Must Kick the Sourcing Habit
As many of you know — I announced it at the ERE Expo in San Diego — I’ve decided to bring recruiting back to recruiting. This is my new old … Read more
The Benefit of Urgency in a Talent Short Market
The job market has been picking up, and hiring managers are aggressively trying to increase human capital to reach their 2011 revenue goals. Having the … Read more
Close at the Beginning to Increase Quality of Hire
Many recruiters lose too many good candidates at the beginning of the sourcing and recruiting process, due to lack of basic recruiting skills. As a result, … Read more
BranchOut vs. LinkedIn, and Recruiting Passive Candidates in 2011
Although there were some naysayers about my predictions for job growth in 2011 (Dec 14, 2010 ERE), it’s more clear that 2011 will be banner year for … Read more
4 Passive-candidate Recruiting Strategies
I was talking last week with Melissa Mounce, the senior vice president of talent acquisition at PNC who I’m interviewing for a session at the Spring … Read more
Succession Management: Let us in. We can help. Sincerely, Recruiting
In the November Journal of Corporate Recruiting Leadership, in an article titled “Talent Acquisition as a Tool of Succession Management,” I discuss … Read more
LinkedIn Unveils Two New Products: Jobs For You and Referral Engine
This morning, at its first ever user conference, Talent Connect, LinkedIn revealed two brand new product offerings to its “Recruiter” … Read more