Now, I’m not an anti-consistency guy at all. To scale, to create a great experience, you need to make sure certain things are predictable and … Read more
How to Lose a Candidate in 10 Days
From helpful advice to foreboding warnings, job seekers hear countless dos and don’ts when it comes to applying to, interviewing for, and nailing down a … Read more
Rejected Candidate Referrals and the Candidate Experience
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