Applicants know it and recruiters know it to… Job descriptions are boring! We WOW applicants with great web pages and savvy recruiters but when we … Read more
Evaluating Recruitment Websites
With the thousands of websites offering online recruitment how do you establish a standard of evaluating these sites? The steps outlined below will help … Read more
Hiring the College Grads You Really Want How to Structure the Offer and Get to Yes!
Structuring the offer for a college graduate these days has become complex. More of them they have choices of employers and many offers and can be very … Read more
Revving Up the Engines: Northern Light
A few months ago, we looked at the major search engines and how they worked. But, in the world of cyberspace, a few months can change a lot. So, our next … Read more
Instead Of The Cost Of Hire?Measure The Cost Of A Bad Hire
If your company has a turnover of 20% per year and all of your new hires are mediocre, it will only take 5 years for all of your entire workforce to be … Read more
So Many Sites, So Little Money: Thinking Strategically About Your Recruiting Plan
In Part I of this series (published on December 10 — before the snow, tornadoes, floods, ice storms, and flu season) we covered alternative ways of … Read more
The Web of Influence: Building On-Campus Relationships
Last week we discussed how important it is to create a brand image for your organization on campus. Equally important, is building long-term relationships … Read more
The Virtual Job Fair
Remember the last job fair you attended? The boxes of stuff you lugged along? The people that just passed you by? Was it worth it? Of course, if you got … Read more
Stop Worrying About The Cost Per Hire – A “Better Metric” Is The Quality Of Hire
I hear HR professionals say they want to be strategic but often their actions indicate otherwise. Take the all too commonly used “cost per … Read more
How to Ruin a Great Recruiting Effort with the “Orientation From Hell” – Part II
This is the second of a two part series on how to “close the sale” after a world class recruiting effort Sales Reps know it – First … Read more
Creating a “Brand”
Let’s face it; most of us who do recruiting are not very good at marketing. We may be relatively good salespeople and we may know how to close a … Read more
Bookmarking Framed Sites
We’ve all been there. We come upon a site that makes liberal use of frames, breathe a sigh of displeasure, and plunge in anyway hoping to find those … Read more
Wrap A Sourcing Program Around Your Current Recruiting Efforts
How can you ensure maximum efficiency from your sourcing routine, while freeing up many hours per week to recruit? Consider segregating, and then … Read more
World Class College Recruiting: How is it Different From Other Recruiting?
Did you know that the average male college graduate got 2.65 offers and the average female graduate got 2.53 offers last year? Did you know that fewer than … Read more
Stay Informed
Tired of searching out new sites to find those elusive candidates? Try the “Informant,” a nifty service from Dartmouth College that e-mails you … Read more
How To Ruin A Great Recruiting Effort With The “Orientation From Hell” – Part I
This is the first of a two part series on how to “close the sale” after a world class recruiting effort. SALES REPS KNOW IT – FIRST … Read more
Robots, Spiders, Hands
Should search robots/spiders replace, or simply augment, the searches you perform by hand? If you are a recruiter or staffing professional, you may already … Read more
Ten Things You Can Do to Select the Right People
Have you ever hired someone who seemed perfect for a job, but who later turned out to be quite a bit less than perfect? Stressed by today’s … Read more
Managing Mail: Using Filters
Organize your mail. When you’re at a point where you get hundreds of e-mails a day, you risk overlooking important pieces and people. You also may … Read more
Becoming an Employer of Choice – Part II
FIRST STEPS IN BECOMING AN EMPLOYER OF CHOICE (EOC) Do a preliminary survey of top management to identify possible support or resistance. Read more