If there’s one thing that jumps out from Jobvite’s 2018 Job Seeker Nation Study, it’s this: they hit you immediately with the huge … Read more
The Last Recruiter: AI and Recruiting
A long time ago, in a conference room far, far away, I was asked by an HR executive if the ATS I was implementing would eliminate the need for recruiters. … Read more
Without Metrics, Weak Onboarding Will Neutralize Your Recruiting Results
Think about it for a minute. You devote thousands of dollars and hundreds of management hours to recruiting, and as a result, you land a great candidate. … Read more
The Desk Is Kinda Small, the Office Is Cramped, But There’s a Stunning View In This New Onboarding Video
In a new, memorable onboarding video, current employees give incoming employees advice (“don’t talk for your first three years”), warn … Read more
The Amazing ’25 Names Approach’ for Filling Your Talent Pipeline Simultaneously With Every Hire
Not using the hiring process for name capturing for future jobs is a missed opportunity Few hiring managers and recruiters realize that the hiring process … Read more
Diversity’s Revolving Door — With 2x the Turnover, a Diversity Retention Program Is Needed
Most firms have no idea that they have a revolving door that is bleeding diversity talent, because unexplainably, they don’t measure and report diversity … Read more
Ouch, 50% Of New Hires Fail! 6 Ugly Numbers Revealing Recruiting’s Dirty Little Secret
Large corporations have thousands of business processes, but I doubt that you’ve ever heard of a single process that has a 50 percent failure rate. So your … Read more
Frustrated With Your Recruiting Results? Ask New Hires ‘What Worked’
It’s a basic law for business process improvement. When your process is completed, you survey your users to find out what worked and what didn’t work. In … Read more
In an Interconnected Digital Business World … Why Is Recruiting Still An Island?
a “think piece” designed to stimulate your thinking about strategic recruiting Corporate recruiting, unfortunately, operates as if it were an island. … Read more
The Top 5 Power Tips For Selling Extremely Hard-to-close Candidates
In this obviously tight job market, I estimate that it has become at least 25 percent harder to sell the most in-demand candidates. And closing the best is … Read more
A Contrarian Perspective on Hiring for ‘Fit’
Many industries today are accelerating their focus on innovation to capture opportunities in ever-changing markets. CHROs and recruitment leaders are being … Read more
Predicting Which New Hires Will Quit — a Checklist for Spotting Early ‘Flight Risks’
Corporations are currently encountering the highest voluntary turnover rate in a decade. And when they have to refill the position that was vacated by an … Read more
Develop a Process for Limiting Early New-hire Turnover
Early new-hire turnover is one of the most frustrating (40 percent of new hires leave within six months) and expensive (the cost of losing a new hire is at … Read more
Your Talent Pipeline Needs a Roto-Router Because It’s Not Producing
A comprehensive name-capturing guide for identifying who should be in your recruiting pipeline Let’s get straight to the point: having an external … Read more
For Quality Hires, On-site Staffing Firms are Best
It is rare to find a large medical device manufacturing facility today that doesn’t take advantage of temporary labor. As the number of orders for products … Read more
6 Ways to Make New Hires and Your Clients Happy After the Placement
Only about 10% of all recruiters do anything about ensuring their candidate will perform adequately or happily on the job. Their follow-up is limited to … Read more
5 Ways to Enhance The New Employee Experience
If your company is growing rapidly, congratulations! That means demand is high for your product or service, and you are hiring a ton to keep up. The … Read more
Talent Branding: Your EVP in the Age of the Mecosystem
A new buzzword on the rise is “Mecosystem,” a set of connections in which brand fits into an individual’s life in a customized way. … Read more
WOW, Google’s Simple Just-in-time Checklist Improves Onboarding Results By 25%
Although the initial part of this article is about how Google improved its onboarding results by 25 percent, the unique approach that it used reveals many … Read more
I Have Some Onboarding Advice That’s Really Mundane … and Profound
Ask yourself: What happens when your new young employees walk through the door on Day 1? How do you leverage those first days and weeks? You won’t be … Read more