You might be surprised to learn that a talent pipeline strategy can yield a time to fill that can actually be zero days. If you’re not familiar with the concept, a talent pipeline recruiting strategy provides a tremendous competitive advantage…
Strategic Sourcing
Timing Is Everything — Initiate a December Recruiting Push When Competition Is Low
Timing is always critical in recruiting, and sometimes the best way to land top talent is to wait until the major corporate competition is not active. Data reveals that for new jobs put out to search, December is 35 percent…
Need Top Performers? Hire Candidates With a Strong Professional Network
Actionable Tips for Hiring Those With Powerful Professional Networks Everyone knows the power of networks. But many hiring managers and recruiters are surprised to learn that the strength of someone’s professional network is also one of the strongest predictors of…
Build a ‘Superteam’ — a Recruiting Strategy That Can Lead to Industry Domination!
The most powerful business strategy and the one with the highest capability for literally driving your firm to industry dominance may be building a Superteam. If you are a recruiting leader who wants to have a significant strategic impact, approach your…
Need More Strategic Thinkers? Here’s How to Hire Them
What firm doesn’t need to be strategic? In fact, what could contribute more to the success of an organization in today’s fast-changing world of business than having a large cadre of strategic thinkers? As a result, CEOs would love to…
A Cousin of Siri Is Coming to the Recruiting Field
HiringSolved will soon unveil what it considers “Siri for recruiting,” an artificial intelligence assistant for recruiters. His name will be RAI, pronounced like the name Ray, and standing for “Recruiting Artificial Intelligence.” The company has been working on it for five…
Your Talent Pipeline Needs a Roto-Router Because It’s Not Producing
A comprehensive name-capturing guide for identifying who should be in your recruiting pipeline Let’s get straight to the point: having an external recruiting talent pipeline is a powerful tool but almost no one does it well. You can tell if…
Candidate Research — The Critical Information That You Must Know About Your Recruiting Targets
It’s a sad fact that most of what we know about those who we are trying to hire (recruiting prospects and candidates) is anecdotal and historical. At the same time, both the job search process and candidate expectations are changing at…
The Most Damaging Strategic Omission in Recruiting — Candidate Research
You Don’t Know Jack … About Your Recruiting Targets If businesspeople ran recruiting … candidate research would dominate! Even though both recruiting and product sales are involved in a form of selling, only the sales function has shifted to a…
Leadership in Recruiting: How to Create Happy Employees, Happy Experiences, and Happy Clients
My family and I go to Disneyland every year. When I walk in, I can smell the popcorn and cotton candy right away. The friendly staff wishes you a magical day and, of course, all the amazing entertainment is certainly…
December Is the Critical Month to Recruit (and Retain) Salespeople
If you haven’t already shifted to a data-based recruiting approach, December is an ideal time to see the benefits resulting from using data to take what I call “right-time” recruiting actions. Most executives and recruiting leaders are shocked when they…
Don’t Pass on Game-changer Candidates Who Are Still Rookies
Don’t Pass On Game-changer Candidates Who Are Still Rookies Professional sports lead the way in recruiting “game-changer” candidates who are only rookies, while in the corporate world, most of them are simply passed over. If you’re not familiar with the term…
If Your Talent Acquisition Department Doesn’t Have One of These, Maybe It Should
“… my awesome company/team is looking for a ninja recruiting coordinator … if you all know anyone please send them my way…” That was posted in an online sourcing group I’m in. Recruiting coordinator — maybe for those departments which lack it, that’s what…