Three weeks ago, I was invited to pitch to a group of investors on behalf of a potential client: a Series B Silicon Valley startup. Our job, as the client’s recruiting partner, was to convey to the investor that hiring…
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Building an Advanced Talent Acquisition Function Today — People and TA Structures (Part 1 of 3)
I wrote an article not too long ago called What does an advanced talent acquisition function look like?, and received a fair few calls about it. A lot of the questions were related to building (or redesigning) a talent acquisition…
RPO Wars: Episode III – Return of the Project Manager
A time right about now, In a galaxy not far, far away … The line between good and bad RPO implementations has been drawn Between the reality of well-spoken account managers versus what is actually delivered Perceptions of customer service…
SHRM Survey: 2/3 of Companies Made Social Media Hires
Two-thirds of all companies have sourced new hires in the last year from social media. And, no surprise here, LinkedIn is the most popular site for making hires. A survey out this morning from the Society for Human Resource Management shows…
Speed. Price. Quality. Are Your Recruiters Sacrificing One of the Above?
There’s a well-known project management challenge: “fast, good, cheap: pick two.” It succinctly captures the dilemma that project managers face as they try to achieve their goals at the right speed, price, and quality. In this triangle of competing priorities,…
Pinstripe + Ochre House = Cielo
Yes, that word sounds familiar from your childhood Spanish classes. Pinstripe, the U.S. recruitment outsourcing company, and Ochre House, out of the UK, having got together about a year ago, and are now taking on a new name: Cielo.
The Best Advice for an RPO Consultant: Immerse Yourself in Your Client’s Business
To be a successful RPO consultant you have to immerse yourself in your client’s business and industry. Once you’ve done that, your client will pull up a chair for you at its table and welcome you as its RPO business…
Top 4 Process Improvements to Improve the Productivity of Your RPO
Discussions that revolve around talent acquisition “transformation” often involve long-term strategies and high-level shifts that require an extended period of time to implement. If you are looking to see a faster return on your recruiter productivity when you’re using an…
Keeping Your Enemies Close …Turning Agencies Into Allies
As a long-time corporate recruiter, I have developed a very bad habit of being animalistic in marking my territory, meaning that for me … I hate to turn over reqs to agencies. It can sometimes feel like defeat, failure, and…
I, Robot: How Vulnerable Are Recruiters to Automation?
A recent study from Oxford University suggests that almost half of all job categories are at some risk of being automated within the next 20 years. That includes telemarketers (99 percent certainty); accountants (94 percent), real estate agents (86 percent);…
Who’s Responsible for Social Recruiting?
Candidates today connect, communicate, and proactively do their homework as they interact with future employers through social media. Their first impression of your brand often takes place through your social media presence. They expect responsiveness, a person behind the brand…
Where to Find Dependable, Intelligent, and Hard-Working Employees
Say hello to your newest employee Baxter. He stands three feet, one-inch tall and weighs 165 pounds. He’s dependable and works well on teams and alone. He’s very productive especially performing tasks most employees don’t like to do such as…
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…
Keep Calm and Optimize
Recruiting is very much reactive in nature. Someone quits, retires, or is fired — and for the most part, we begin at that moment to search for a new person who can do the job. And recruiters are creatures of…
5 Predictions for Recruiting From Government Shutdown, Sequestration
The predictions are below. You can skip the introductory setup and go right to them — just scroll down to “Predictions” Recruiting professionals and departments across the federal and government contracting sector didn’t know what to expect from the recent…
Pick the Right Recruitment Ad Agency and Get the Most From It
External recruitment marketing companies are not one-size-fits-all. The key to a successful collaboration with an outside agency is finding the right fit for your company and needs. Consider the following three questions when determining whether an agency is the right…
RPO Company Futurestep Rolling Out a Data/Metrics Tool
Futurestep has quietly been developing a tool called “Foresight” it will be rolling out to its clients, a dashboard meant to make heads and tails out of the recruiting information global companies have stored in their many databases. Futurestep (a…
It’s Time for Recruiters to Adapt (Again!)
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change” — Charles Darwin There is a great article by Adrian Kinnersley on Why Recruiters Will Be at the Heart…
The Future of RPO? 3 Predictions for 2013 and Beyond
I don’t have a crystal ball. Nate Silver, who wrote a bestseller and predicted the outcome of presidential election better than any other pollster, said that his goal is to get 80-85% of his predictions right, not 100%. To get…
This Week’s Roundup Was Outsourced to Unpaid Interns
Bob is the kind of guy people don’t look at twice. He’s described as a family man, quiet, and inoffensive. For years he got stellar performance reviews, describing him as “the best developer in the building.” But Bob had a…