While reading Thomas Friedman’s best-seller, The World Is Flat, this past week, I came across a passage that I found to be very relevant to the … Read more
Where Have the Diamond Mines Gone?
Sourcing good people has never been more challenging. The days when good people simply dropped off their resumes or when the average recruiter could flip … Read more
The Talent Story of the iPod
At the beginning of every great business success there’s a human capital story, and that’s certainly the case with the iPod. In just over four … Read more
Don’t Miss the Next Strategic Turn
People who didn’t believe in the Internet as a sourcing medium 10 years ago started to look pretty foolish about five years ago. Likewise, some … Read more
Putting in Place a Labor-Based Supply Chain
Car manufacturers get daily, even hourly, updates on car sales from dealerships all over the country. This data gets fed into sophisticated supply chain … Read more
Four Rules of Talent
While human intervention is important to candidates and to hiring managers, we have to change when and how we intervene. As I have written about many … Read more
Using Blogs as a Strategic Recruiting Tool
Blogs represent an emerging and rapidly growing communication vehicle. Today, there are over 14 million blogs, and this number is increasing fast — … Read more
Assessing Employee Referral Programs: A Checklist
By now, everyone has heard the praises on employee referral programs and how they can produce outstanding results with regards to cost, speed, and quality … Read more
Simple Recruiting
There is a question I have been posing to recruiters all over the world that is evoking some interesting answers: What is the simplest recruiting model you … Read more
Moving Away from Requisitions and Towards Strategic Partnership
The response to my last two articles on the topic of requisitions was informative. Most recruiting professionals who responded via the ERE Forum thought I … Read more