The world is changing. Okay, maybe that’s nothing new. But some of these changes are affecting how your company is able to attract and retain the best employees. Ultimately, this forces ó yes, forces ó you to start working closely with your corporate marketing department. Now that is something new. We all look at the... [full article »]
Jeff Dahltorp
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Public Relations and Recruiting: Eliminating the “And”
When people talk about public relations, most have an image of either a corporate press secretary touting the genius actions of his or her boss or else a line of local celebrities shoveling some dirt with gold spades at the site of a new youth center. When they think about recruiting, most people think of... [full article »]
Roadmap for the Perfect Recruiting Process, Part 4
Well, here we are at the fourth and final installment in this article series. By now you have evaluated your entire recruiting process, put some changes in place (technology and tracking) to help analyze your success, and begun to plan for next year. In this last part, beginning with Step Six, we will look at... [full article »]
Roadmap for the Perfect Recruiting Process, Part 3
In this article series we’ve been traveling down the recruiting highway talking about improving your recruiting process. We first talked about how to develop a recruiting roadmap, and then how to generate the numbers to help you analyze your process. In this article, we continue on with step five, where we really start to focus... [full article »]
Roadmap for the Perfect Recruiting Process, Part 2
In my last article, we had developed a formal recruiting process, “recruited” other departments in the company to work with us, and learned how their decisions impact recruiting and the value of a workforce plan. In this article we want to pick up where we left off, with step four in building the perfect recruiting... [full article »]
Roadmap for the Perfect Recruiting Process
If someone was to ask you to describe and diagram, in detail, your company’s recruitment process, could you do it? I don’t mean simply creating a job requisition, posting a job, reading resumes, interviewing and making offers. I’m talking about the entire process, including: Building a comprehensive workforce plan [full article »]
Managing Bureaucracy
Most people get a laugh out of reading Dilbert comics, especially when they see how closely Dilbert’s work life resembles their own. But at a certain point, when these comparisons hit particularly close to home, it’s suddenly not so funny. But if you are a recruiter or staffing director within an organization that you know... [full article »]