At LinkedIn’s (LI’s) annual Talent Connect Conference in Las Vegas last week, they announced the addition of a certification program for recruiters. … Read more
5 Rules to Guide You If You Do Background Checks on Job Candidates
By Eric B. Meyer Nearly half of employers investigate job applicants online. This is according to a CareerBuilder survey released last week. Of the 2,775 … Read more
Survey Shows 5 Somewhat Surprising Lessons For Recruiters
I always cringe when I get a survey or some research touting some hot new finding or a big “surprise,” because in my experience, the vast … Read more
Why the Government Shutdown is a Great Recruiting Opportunity
It’s hard to miss the troubling news about the “government shutdown” and the “debt default crisis,” but what has not received a lot of press attention is … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: I Don’t Like You, But I’ll Hire You Anyway
I haven’t met many people who have hired someone they did not like. Yet, I have never seen anything in any job description that says you must like a person … Read more
Why Goal-Based Job Descriptions Are the Next Big Thing
Are your people working towards the wrong goals? According to a recent survey, goal cascading and employee turnover are the two largest concerns business … Read more
4 Recruiting Behaviors That Limit the Quality of Who You Hire
Talent acquisition — despite the mass adoption of new tools and technologies to make the process data rich and workflow friendly — remains a major … Read more
Bad Candidate Interviews: Maybe You’re Really the One At Fault
You may already have a laundry list of ”bad interviews.” The fit may not work or the candidate could turn out to be completely different than you thought … 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
Hiring Wisdom: The Best Interview Question, and 3 More Good Ones
Many of our readers shared a version of the following as one of their favorite interview questions: “We are interviewing many people for this position. … Read more