Gerry Crispin

Gerry Crispin

Gerry Crispin, is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and thought leader. He seeks to understand how firms design and build staffing processes, the technology to enhance them and the systems to manage them. He is also committed to writing, researching, and sharing his adventures, opinions and observations about evolving staffing models with the HR profession, clients and friends. He and his partner, Mark Mehler, created CareerXroads® and the CareerXroads Colloquium with one goal in mind: critically analyzing corporate recruiting issues from a tactical yet strategic perspective. Learn more at CareerXroads

Quality: You Can’t Discuss the ‘How’ if You Don’t Agree on the ‘What’

Of all the metrics recruiters and employers debate, “quality” is at the heart of every conversation. Many recruiters and employers accept that measures of recruiting success will in some form be linked to either cost, time, or quality. Whether digging…

Are Cover Letters Dead or Just Following Us Around?

Recently more than one recruiting leader asked whether their peers were still using cover letters or, if they had become like our dictionary perception of an appendix, a “useless [recruiting] remnant of our evolutionary past.” And let’s not kid ourselves,…

When We Connect the ‘Global Integration’ Dots, Recruiters Risk Being Defined Here by Their Practices There

The hiring process has no minimum acceptable (or unacceptable) standard of practice. Anything goes and many recruiters prefer it that way. Perhaps intuitively we know that people who think of themselves as recruiters (or enjoy being seen as successful recruiters…

Can You Recognize This Recruiting Model?

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. — Mark Twain See if you can place this current staffing model without skipping to the end. You are responsible for an…

Recruiting/HR Lessons Learned in the Superstorm’s Aftermath

Three weeks after Sandy, life is getting back to normal … or is it? Walking the dog this weekend morning around a relatively unscathed block of homes in central New Jersey (miles from the shore) today, reminders are everywhere. Tons…

“Our Employees Are Our Most Valuable Asset”

This (standard) cliché is repeated over and over by the world’s public employers in their most valuable marketing piece, their annual report. We know it’s B.S. You know it’s B.S. … and so does everyone else. Employers, in their infinite…

2012 Candidate Experience Awards Deadline Extended

The Candidate Experience Awards deadline set to expire June 15 was extended to July 13 by the TalentBoard, the non-profit created to oversee the www.theCandEs.org, at its monthly meeting this past week.

Which Are More Valuable: Internally or Externally Sourced Candidates?

The science of recruiting is years behind our peers in other disciplines, but when I see research like this journal article, “Paying More to Get Less: The Effects of External Hiring versus Internal Mobility,” I know we’re beginning to catch up. This…

Tilting at Windmills: Sometimes, You Just Have to Do It to Be Heard

Some subjects I care about but am reluctant to discuss because it’s just… awkward. Lots of people naturally feel uncomfortable when folks get emotional about topics they don’t relate to in the same way or, like politics and religion some…

Conversations With Staffing Leaders: Anita Gutel and Chris Himebauch of Red Lobster

You cannot truly lead or make a difference at your company without all the qualities ERE authors describe every day in their articles. But there’s one more thing you must also have: an absolute passion for what it is you…

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