Remember the hunt for “original thinkers” from Kimberly-Clark, from a year ago? Part of an effort to make its workforce more innovative and creative, the company says that more than 40,000 people have taken the quiz and over 100,000 visitors…
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New Class of 500 Startups Has Been Announced; These 4 are Workforce Related
500 Startups is ramping up its next group of companies to go through its early-stage startup program. Announced on August 8, there are 36 startups in the current class. There have been eight employment-related companies go through the program in the past, including Blueboard,…
Build a ‘Superteam’ — a Recruiting Strategy That Can Lead to Industry Domination!
The most powerful business strategy and the one with the highest capability for literally driving your firm to industry dominance may be building a Superteam. If you are a recruiting leader who wants to have a significant strategic impact, approach your…
Failure to Launch: Millennials in the Workforce
Millennials are now the largest living cohort in America, numbering about 75 million. Every generation is different from the ones that came before, but this group is different in one unusual way. They seem determined to delay accepting adulthood for…
Wait, What? McDonald’s is Hoping to Hire How Many People With the Help of Snapchat?
Recruitment with Snapchat has predominantly been a sideshow. Aside from a dash of employer branding with Spectacles, their eyeglasses, and a little dabbling Down Under, there has been nothing of significance. And certainly nothing that would get the attention of a serious employer. Granted,…
How Intuit Changed Its Recruiting Game in 10 Days
When you hear about a company using virtual reality, it’s usually assumed it is for a game or product experience. Many of the big players in Silicon Valley, Silicon Beach, Austin, Seattle, and New York City have some sort of VR…
The State of Recruitment: Operating with Integrity
Frequent corporate missteps have hit the headlines recently in the traditional press, not to mention social media channels where numerous cringe-worthy incidents are shared around the globe in a matter of minutes. No industry is immune: the airline, automotive, accounting,…
Let’s Get Serious: Culture Fit Matters
There’s a new trend afoot among the “thought leaders” bubbling up: culture fit doesn’t matter, it’s all about values. Focus on hiring for values for retention success. Seriously? It’s hard to take that statement seriously. Values are the reasons behind…
Uber’s Culture Is A Reflection of Its CEO
If any part of the charges of sexual harassment and favoritism made by a former Uber engineer hold up, company CEO Travis Kalanick should go. The VCs who sit on the company board should do the right thing if he…
What Google’s Response to a 7-Year-Old Has to Teach Us
The story of how an intrepid 7-year-old from the agricultural city of Hereford in the UK boldly wrote Google for a job has been told around the world. In case you missed it, Chloe Bridgewater addressed a letter to “google…
How Any Organization Can Adopt the ‘Car Test’ to Improve Their Hiring Practices
A few years ago, our company was going through some growing pains. We were getting bigger, and the need for employees with a diversified work style was becoming more important than ever. We were a small company at the time,…
Why You Should Use Team-building Activities In Your Hiring Process
A group interview during the hiring process has become a more common technique to interview candidates and assess their capabilities. A group interview setup can involve multiple interviewers, multiple candidates, or both. If you’re looking to hire someone who is a…
Kimberly-Clark On a Hunt for ‘Original Thinkers’
They’re feeling the need to keep older workers’ knowledge with them, but simultaneously bring on millennials and brand themselves as cutting-edge, innovative companies: I’m talking about GE, Mastercard, ADP, and many others, including now Kimberly-Clark. The maker of Kleenexes, Cottonelle, and Huggies…
Millennials Are Different — Very Different
Like any generation, millennials do a lot that give HR teams pause. Gen X was difficult to manage and motivate, and had different perspectives on work and work/life balance than previous generations. There are skill gaps between new young hires…
We Keep Talking About ‘Purpose’ at Work But Perhaps We’re Being Dishonest
It’s only Wednesday, and already I’ve had no less than 12 conversations this week discussing the importance of identifying candidates who “connect to purpose,” and how they are the best targets in recruiting. So long passive candidates, now it’s purpose-driven candidates….
How a Job Candidate’s Going to Fit Into Your Culture
A culture fit is that missing piece, the person who fills certain roles, thinks in certain ways, and whose skills and personality will complement, not duplicate, those of your existing team. That means that culture fit will look different for…
The Final Generation — Recruiting Gen ‘Z’
The millennials are so yesterday. Now it’s time to start thinking about recruiting Generation Z — defined as those born between the mid 1990s and 2010 and now representing over a quarter of the US population. (What comes next –…
The Silver Tsunami – Recruiting an Aging Labor Force
Demographic changes will affect recruitment in coming years The American labor force is getting older and will get smaller. Already, one in three American workers is over the age of 50. By 2019 every baby boomer — 44 percent of…
Migrating Knowledge Across Generations: A Talent Challenge and Opportunity
2015 was a pivotal year in the U.S. workforce. In 2015, there was an equivalent number of workers (approximately 50 million) in each of the Baby Boomer, Generation X, and Gen Y/millennial generations. This is the only time to date that the…
Gen Xers: Skills, Strengths, and Shortcomings
Fair or not, most Gen Xers see themselves as the older, responsible child doing dishes and taking out the trash while the baby boomers and millennials argue over the TV remote. While the smartphone might personify millennials, and Woodstock exemplified…