Many in business and most in talent management fail to realize that as soon as you open your mouth, it’s immediately obvious to almost all leaders and … Read more
The Top 10 Best Approaches for Winning The ‘War For College Talent’
College recruiting has been in the doldrums during most of the economic downturn, and as a result there have been few strategic changes in it, even though … Read more
What Have You Done for Me Lately? Entrance to the C-suite Requires Data on the Economic Impact of Job Performance
If I hear one more speech about how HR needs to be strategic, I may lose it. Of course, we all want and need to make a difference, get noticed, and help … Read more
Sacred Cows and Silly Practices Die Slowly in Recruiting
Recruiting is full of practices that seem to last forever. Unfortunately, many practices endure for years despite the fact that they add no value to the … Read more
Develop a Hiring Manager Scorecard … to Make Them More Accountable (Part 2 of 2)
If you’re going to measure and perhaps reward individual hiring managers for excellence, you will need to work with a sample of them to determine which … 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
Use These 8 Lessons to Make the Right Technology Decisions
A study by Deloitte estimates that companies will spend more than $4 billion annually on talent management technology this year. Because the HR technology … Read more
The Quest for Quality of Hire
About a month ago, I was at ERE and a session caught my attention: “A Framework for Improving and Measuring Quality of Hire.” I was delighted. Would … Read more
Our Big Cleanup of Our Big Data
Informatica, the company for which I work, deals in big data challenges every day. It’s what we do — help customers turn their data into … Read more
RPO Company Futurestep Rolling Out a Data/Metrics Tool
Futurestep has quietly been developing a tool called “Foresight” it will be rolling out to its clients, a dashboard meant to make heads and … Read more