A few years ago, I gave a webinar entitled something like “The Top Ten iPhone Apps for Recruiting.” To my surprise, the app that received the warmest reception had nothing to do with recruiting. It was called “White Noise.” Like…
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Montage Acquires Video Interview Competitor
GreenJobInterview, an early entrant in the video interview arena, is being acquired by Montage, one of its two leading competitors. No financial details were disclosed in this morning’s announcement, which also included news that Montage had closed an $8 million funding round…
Skype Finally Gets Serious About Being a Video Interviewing Tool
There’s no shortage of video interviewing tools in the recruiting industry. Green Job Interview, HireVue, Take the Interview, Montage, Wepow, Sparkhire, and Vervoe are just a few off the top of my head. Though each one can talk up their…
Experiential Interviews: 4 Steps to Help You Identify Superior Talent
If you’re still using conventional interviews when hiring, I’ve got bad news — common interviewing methods set you and hiring managers up to pick the wrong people. Why? Because conventional interviews give only the smallest glimpse of the candidate —…
Canvas Looks to Take on TextRecruit Following its $1.7 Million Seed Round
Hot off TextRecruit’s recent $3 million raise, a new competitor has arisen. Indianapolis-based Canvas is the brainchild of former Cha Cha executive Aman Brar, and uses the advantages of text messaging to help recruiters connect with talent. Brar was also president of Apparatus…
How to Keep Candidates Warm During the Recruiting Process
One of the biggest complaints candidates have about working with internal and external recruiters is the spottiness of the communication between them. Recruiters deal with dozens or scores of candidates, whereas a candidate may be in one, two or three…
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 itself offers a great opportunity to capture the names of top performers for your talent pipeline….
Open Letter to the CEO and CHRO: You’re Disconnected On Talent Priorities.
Dear Mr/s CEO and CHRO, I needed to send you this important note after reading all those McKinsey and Gartner “What are the CEO’s priorities?” survey results for the last few years. You have also read and probably participated in them…
An Interview Is Not a Test — Prep Candidates for Success
Why has the interview experience been set up to be like a pop quiz for the candidate with no real idea of how or why certain questions are important? We complain that we are frustrated with new hire turnover, productivity,…
Survey Says Job Seekers Are Mostly OK Engaging With Chatbots
Job seekers have had to endure the resume blackhole for decades, and it turns out that lack of response from a perspective employer has led to lowered expectations. So low, in fact, that prospects are mostly OK with talking to…
My Favorite Interview Question
It’s a no brainer that knowing the reasons a candidate has applied for a job will help you win them over in the offer stage. My favorite question in a screening interview is … We’re all taught to tell employers…
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…
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 firm’s executives will be shocked to learn that the recruiting process (the HR…
Predictive Analytics, Bias, and Interviewing
For centuries people have been captivated by the idea of predicting the future (and I’ll be offering my own predictions on the stage in a few days). Crystal ball gazers and fortune tellers all promised to be able to do this….
How to Assess Candidates With These Surprising Job Interview Questions
From a young age, I played baseball. It was something I loved to do, and it bled into many aspects of life, both then and now. For example, whenever my family would go on vacation, I’d take my baseball equipment…
Candidate Coaching Improves Hiring Results — So Stop Losing Candidates For Preventable Reasons
If you are failing to coach your candidates prior to their interview, you may be unnecessarily losing as many as 20 percent of your qualified candidates simply for trivial reasons. Candidate coaching is where a corporate recruiter provides pre-interview guidance…
A Better Way to Assess Exceptional vs. Average Performance in an Interview
I want to give you a blueprint for what I believe based on my experience and research is the best way to structure your interview framework to produce a more optimal outcome to identify a higher-performing employee. If you’ve read me…
4 Ways to Repel Top Talent With Scarce Skills
Let’s acknowledge that, despite our widespread desire to offer a great candidate experience to every applicant for every role, talent acquisition functions simply aren’t resourced to do so. Like every business and family, we have limited resources within which we…
Revelation! Unconscious Bias Hurts Your Hiring Results Across All Candidates
One of the primary reasons why increasing amounts of technology are entering the recruiting space is the recognition that recruiters and hiring managers harbor a great deal of unconscious bias, which has a negative impact on a firm’s recruiting results….
Preparing for Your Next Virtual Interview
Searching for the right candidate is easier than ever given the rise of the virtual interview. Virtual interviews offer recruiters the opportunity to quickly reach a diverse applicant pool without the cost of time and travel, and have the added…