What are your RCR ratios? If you are not familiar with RCR, it stands for Rejected Candidate Referral. The metrics are simply the ratio of RCRs in your … Read more
From 42 Floors, Turnaround is Fair Play
Tired of those annoying calls from persistent recruiters who want your business and call, and call, and, you know, keep calling? Darren Nix, a founder … Read more
What? No Job Postings?!?
If you ask my team, they will tell you that I love change and innovation. In the last couple of years I’ve helped push our team to new heights in sourcing, … Read more
Incentivize Recruiters for a More Successful Hiring Process
The candidate experience has become one of the most talked-about areas for improvement in the recruitment industry, in large part thanks to Gerry Crispin, … Read more
This Is Not a Test — It’s the Future! Talent Assessment Trends for 2014
“Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon … everything’s different.” — Calvin from … Read more
AIG’s Better Candidate Experience
“Recruitment, at its core, is marketing,” said Gordon Frutiger, director of strategic recruitment initiatives at AIG, when we spoke to him in 2012. “I … Read more
We’ve Got to Stop Over-promising and Under-delivering, or Retention Will Suffer
It’s natural to do everything you can to convert a potential candidate you’re interested in. However, mistakes made during recruiting process and in the … Read more
Fix the Top 5 Online Job Search Frustrations for Applicants
Brilliant people and companies simplify; others complicate. The evidence of this principle is all around us. Ebay simplified the garage sale; Google … Read more
Mystery Job Shopper Survey: Not Much Improvement From America’s Best Companies
If God hadn’t promised Noah to never again flood the planet and start all over, most of America’s best companies to work for would be moving to … Read more
Develop a Recruiter Scorecard … Because Champions Demand That You Keep Score (Part 2 of a 2-part series)
How to develop a recruiter scorecard for assessing individual corporate recruiter performance Champions insist that you keep score. If you understand that … Read more