The answer to the title of this article depends on what we mean by “personalized.” So let’s start by pointing out that about 50% of sourcing time is … Read more
Your Job Alert Is the Lost Sock in the Dryer
I see you out there with your job alerts and your talent networks and communities. I sign up for them all the time. You know what you send me: Very little. … Read more
A New Way to Customize Pitches to Passive Candidates
Recruiting desirable talent is fundamentally bi-directional: candidates sell themselves to companies, and companies sell themselves to … Read more
What Does The S-Word Really Mean in Talent Acquisition?
How can talent acquisition serve its purpose more successfully right now? By being more strategic. But what does that really mean? We throw around the … Read more
Hit Your Competitors Where It Hurts — Adopt the Hire-to-Hurt Strategy
Access to this article is limited to fierce competitors Most CEOs are fierce competitors. They love my strategy of “targeting your competitor’s top … Read more
How Can I Transform My Talent Acquisition Capability When I Don’t Have X?
This question in the headline has been posed to me several times. For context, we are driving a transformation of the way we do talent acquisition. In a … Read more
Alert — Recruiting’s Future Will Be Dominated By a Full Cycle Self-Service Phone A...
This “think piece” is designed to stimulate your thoughts around the future of recruiting Forget what you’ve read about the future of recruiting, because … Read more
Why Your Firm Has a Talent Shortage Explained (Bluntly)
Most organizations that are facing a talent shortage blame a variety of external factors, even though the actual culprit is the way their firm recruits. … Read more
Amazon Is Taking D.C’s Talent Fight to a New Level
As if the multi-year boom and low unemployment in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. (where ERE’ll be this fall) weren’t enough, … Read more
Candidate Sharing: A Peace Offering in the War for Talent
Join any serious discussion with talent acquisition professionals these days, and the conversation inevitably turns to out-of-the-box ideas to hire new … Read more
Bring on Hiring Managers Earlier In the Recruiting Process
Everyone’s talking about employee engagement. But engagement really starts with the interview. And, to really get job candidates engaged, hiring … Read more
Recruit Always and Everywhere
Lorraine Ladd, associate director of talent acquisition for alliantgroup, is recruiting in an area with 2.4 percent unemployment. That’s a lot of … Read more
Why Our Hiring Sources Shouldn’t Be a Secret
There may be a disconnect between candidates and employers, an incongruence in where candidates and employers spend time searching each other. This is … Read more
Texting Candidates from Your Personal Cell Phone? Here’s Why You Should Stop
One study found that 70 percent of companies say time to fill was reduced when using text messaging as the primary form of communication. But could you be … Read more
Source for Skills Developed Outside Their Day Job — Lessons From the Army’s Esport...
Recruiters look for job experience and then sort by skill level. But an alternative is to look for “skills experience,” which better reveals hidden … Read more
TextRecruit Launches Virtual Career Fairs
The business of connecting with candidates via text messaging has been a clear winner in the recruitment space the last few years. Readers will remember … Read more
Make Your Automated Recruiting Messages Better
Last month I went on an epic vacation (yay me!) and I got to do one of my favorite things (don’t laugh): write my out-of-office message. I know people … Read more
Avoid Common Mistakes in Text-based Interviews
Many recruiters and HR professionals are using text-based recruiting platforms for the first time, and it can be challenging to learn how to best use this … Read more
Game-based Assessments for Hiring — What You Need to Know
Are game-based assessments the future of employment testing? In the podcast below, I talk about that question with Ben Hawkes. He’s an I/O … Read more
Total Wine & More Wants Job Candidates to Know It’s Not Your Typical Liquor Stor...
Total Wine’s reach now spans 193 stores in 23 states, as well as online sales in 14 states. The chain’s stores can be as large as 50,000 square … Read more