One aspect of the recruitment process guaranteed to irritate, if not enrage, candidates is lack of communication from prospective employers or recruiters. Regardless of whether there is any basis for it, most applicants have the idea that they are the ideal candidate for an advertised position, and that an implied contract between the parties is... [full article »]

Do the Internet and new hiring technologies herald the end of the recruiter? Is there any future for recruitment agencies? What developments can we expect in recruitment technology and business practices? Answering these questions is difficult, especially since making predictions can come back to haunt you. But it’s fair to say that recruitment has never... [full article »]

I was in the middle of writing a paper on the intricacies of multi-site recruitment process alignment when I received an email from a very experienced professional recruiter in North Carolina, asking me for advice on how to become a consultant in the recruitment arena. It got me thinking about how important the basics of... [full article »]

Much has been written about hiring management systems and their ability to handle applicant tracking and recruitment workflow ó what I call middle-office applications. But in a series of articles I will be focusing on the front-office aspect of the recruitment life-cycle, namely the response management of high-volume candidate applications. Up until a few years... [full article »]

In recent years cross-border and multinational recruitment has increased tremendously, be it recruiting foreign nationals to work in North America or locals for overseas locations and subsidiaries. It is clearly desirable that any global organization would want to adopt uniform procedures across all of its operating companies. But there are many potential pitfalls, especially when... [full article »]