One of the things I most admire about world-class companies is how they spot top talent inside their organization, and the great lengths they go to keep … Read more
What Children Can Teach Us About Winning and Retaining Employees
Human Resource specialists frequently boast graduate degrees and specialized skill sets gained from attending professional seminars and career development … Read more
How to Recruit for a Lousy Company
One time, at cheerleading camp in Texas, one of the camp counselors asked us, “What do you do if your football team is the worst in the district?” The … Read more
Don’t Blame The Headhunters — Get Better at Keeping Your Employees
While working in-house as a headhunter (the real market-mapping and cold-call headhunting “headhunter”) I often got asked the question about the ethics of … Read more
High-impact Strategic Recruiting Metrics for WOWing Executives
The Top 18 Metrics for Recruiting Leaders It’s hard to find anything in recruiting that has failed to live up to its potential more than recruiting … Read more
What Motivates Employees to Stay? It’s Mostly About the Pay
Sometimes, the simplest and most logical answer that makes the most sense. So it is with CareerBuilder‘s latest survey that digs deep into just what … Read more
The Secret of Employee Retention is Actually Pretty Easy
What is the one single thing that employees hate more than anything else? Change. Bar none, “change” would rank as the most disliked thing that … 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
You Should Learn What I Learned From 2 Millenials
Millennials get a bad rap. We hear that millennials work with their iPods on, want flexible hours, won’t stay in a job long, and they get bored easy. Some … Read more