Hiring Process

I’ve been a recruiter, recruiting trainer, and recruiting consultant for 25 years. Before that (when I worked for a living), I had 12 different jobs … Read more

The sourcing strategies and tactics you decide to use are fundamentally a function of the economy and the supply of available candidates. In previous … Read more

As many of you know, at POWER Hiring we spend much of our time ferreting about in other people’s hiring processes to see what works best and what … Read more

Part 1 of this article series outlined some of the similarities and differences between healthcare recruiting today and the IT recruiting crises of the … Read more

In my last article, we had developed a formal recruiting process, “recruited” other departments in the company to work with us, and learned how … Read more

From 1997 to 2000, a war for talent was being waged in the high-tech field. With a growing need for software, an Internet-fueled economy, and declining … Read more

If you want to make your hiring a routinely formal business process, being pretty good at everything is usually good enough. The real problem with hiring … Read more

Here are some further thoughts on my last article about making your hiring a formal process instead of an event: “Hiring is #1,” the mantra … Read more

For most companies, sourcing is a .5 Sigma process. If you’re familiar with Six Sigma, you’ll quickly understand the difference. A Six Sigma … Read more

When I left the military service years ago, my first civilian job was in operations management in the trucking industry. I went through an extensive … Read more

Despite your efforts to locate?? either internally or externally?? the best possible management candidates, at the hiring stage your work has only just … Read more

Sometimes the journey to greatness takes a slight detour. It doesn’t matter if you’re an internal corporate recruiter or an outside … Read more

“It’s my way or the highway.” If I were to develop a list of the ten dumbest things a manager can say to his or her direct reports?? in … Read more

For the next few minutes, let’s take on the persona of a talented job seeker, based in North America, who is looking for a mid- to senior-level … Read more

The economy will recover, and the most important thing you can do now is to upgrade the quality of your recruiting team. I’d like to make a business … Read more

In June I asked ERE subscribers to participate in a survey aimed at collecting the information needed to examine some trends related to the current and … Read more

You can assess the effectiveness of any business process by conducting an end-to-end yield analysis. Just divide how much you have left by what you started … Read more

Last month I asked readers to complete a survey aimed at gathering information needed on the adoption and use of online screening. My survey sought to … Read more