“Recruitment, at its core, is marketing,” said Gordon Frutiger, director of strategic recruitment initiatives at AIG, when we spoke to him in 2012. “I … Read more
We’ve Got to Stop Over-promising and Under-delivering, or Retention Will Suffer
It’s natural to do everything you can to convert a potential candidate you’re interested in. However, mistakes made during recruiting process and in the … Read more
Fix the Top 5 Online Job Search Frustrations for Applicants
Brilliant people and companies simplify; others complicate. The evidence of this principle is all around us. Ebay simplified the garage sale; Google … Read more
Mystery Job Shopper Survey: Not Much Improvement From America’s Best Companies
If God hadn’t promised Noah to never again flood the planet and start all over, most of America’s best companies to work for would be moving to … Read more
Develop a Recruiter Scorecard … Because Champions Demand That You Keep Score (Part 2 of a 2-part series)
How to develop a recruiter scorecard for assessing individual corporate recruiter performance Champions insist that you keep score. If you understand that … Read more
Positive Candidate Experience Is a Competitive Advantage
There have been several recent articles on the importance and, in some cases the lack of attention on, the candidate experience. One article goes so far as … Read more
Death by Interview: Revealing the Pain Caused by Excessive Interviews
“Death by interview” is the harsh but unfortunately all-too accurate name that I give to the majority of corporate interview processes because of the … Read more
An Honest Look at What Job Candidates Really Want
Every few months here on ERE, some author writes an article discussing the “candidate experience,” or as I prefer to call it: the “c words”: candidate … Read more
CandE Companies Do Better, But Most Candidates Still Hear Nothing
Hard on the heels of the release of the Candidate Experience Awards Report comes word from CareerBuilder that the vast majority of candidates who apply for … Read more
“Good Grief, Charles Brown. They Never Told You if You Got the Job?”
Charlie Brown never got much respect. Not from Lucy, who when she wasn’t snatching the football away at the last minute, was making fun of his … Read more
When Applicants Hear Nothing, They Talk and You Get Hurt
You’ve written a compelling job ad that hits all the hot points. You’ve distributed it widely. You’ve even managed to get it high up on … Read more
Mystery Applicant Wins the Recruiting Innovation Summit Startup Competition
Mystery Applicant is the winner of ERE’s first-ever competition between startups, one that began with almost 50 applicants and ended up with the … Read more
Company Career Site Is Most Important to Job Seekers
When U.S. college students and recent grads go looking for a job, they want quick answers, trustworthy insights, and evidence the employers know how to use … Read more
5 Reasons Why Traditional Employment Is in Trouble
According to the U.S. Labor Department, 2.1 million people resigned their jobs in February, the most in any month since the start of the Great Recession. … Read more
Create a Better “Candidate Planet” for Earth Day
HR professionals have designed, built, torn down, and rebuilt many things to enhance talent acquisition: processes, procedures, metrics, sourcing channels, … Read more
Packaging and Selling the Candidate Experience
There are plenty of whitepapers and blogs that attempt to define and describe the candidate experience, but can we go further? Can we find a way to make it … Read more
Chat LIVE With Dan Schawbel on 10/27 at SourceCon.com
On Wednesday, October 27 at noon Eastern, we will be privileged to have a brief LIVE chat on our sister site, SourceCon.com, with the “personal … Read more
Overqualified Candidates, Devaluing Sourcing, and What Keeps You Up At Night
Everyone is on LinkedIn and so are we! Join us there for more of the interesting news and conversations that ERE is known for. Here’s what’s … Read more
Ignoring Facebook, Job Seeker Confessions, and Typers vs. Talkers
What a fun week in the community. I can’t wait to see more of you in person at the #socialrecruiting summit in May (pst… this is the last week … Read more
New Recruiters, Candidate Experience, and Employment Brand
Have you joined our LinkedIn group yet? Check it out. Here’s what’s going on in the ERE community this week: Lessons for a new recruiter Bogus … Read more