Unilever recently reported that it reached gender balance in its management ranks. Half of the company’s 14,000 managers worldwide are female (up from 38% … Read more
Demystifying AI in Assessments
Marketing hype machines are creating artificial intelligence (AI) FOMO — including in the talent-assessment space, with promises of exponential gains in … Read more
Half of Top Performers Quit Last Year — and It’s Likely Happened to You
Perhaps the most alarming statistic of the year comes from recent research by The Predictive Index (TPI) revealing that “on average, 47% of high-performing … Read more
Are Coding Challenges Your Best and Worst Frenemies?
IT-related jobs are the poster child for the “talent crunch” that defines our current labor market. With almost a million unfilled IT jobs, 3.7 million … Read more
Don’t Believe the Lies About Gen Z and Money
A recent study by The Workforce Institute at Kronos uncovered an interesting twist when it comes to the importance of money in attracting and retaining the … Read more
9 Recruiting Lessons From Santa Claus
If you’re a recruiter celebrating the Christmas season, this may be a slow period for you. But it should also be a time to learn. So why not use any extra … Read more
Pre-Hire Assessment Lessons From the NFL
As a talent acquisition professional, you’re probably at least somewhat aware of pre-hire assessments, especially given that 82% of companies use them in … Read more
Rainy Mondays and Chilly Economics — Recruiting in a Downturn
There was a sales manager who used to say he “loved rainy Mondays.” It was a little crazy to hear, since no one was excited about Monday in … Read more
You’re Trusting Your Gut Too Much in the Hiring Process
As people leaders, we take pride in our ability to decide quickly and change our minds slowly. We trust our intuition and reasoning skills — and with … Read more
Highly Effective No-Cost Retention Tools for Public Sector Managers
Alert: Employees are quitting their jobs at the highest rate in a decade. But few public-sector managers realize that a majority of employee turnover is … Read more
Does Sociology Hold the Secret To Diversity Hiring?
How can sociology — the study of social interactions, relationships, and patterns –be the key to helping you create a more diverse … 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
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
What’s Wrong With Hiring a Gig Workforce? Pretty Much Everything (Part 2 of 2)
You can’t read a business publication these days without hearing about the gig economy and how it can help companies. However, despite the hype, the … Read more
Hiring for Culture
Lots of recruiters talk about “hiring people who fit the culture.” How that’s done is the hard part. In the podcast below, I talk to … Read more
‘Stay Interviews’ and ‘Exit Interviews’ Are Recruiting Tools
Many organizations, of all sizes, ask employees to participate in exit interviews as part of the out-processing checklist. There are a number of valid and … Read more
Personality Tests Can Have Unintended Consequences
It’s generally accepted that personality tests are not a reliable tool for making employee selection decisions. But how about other management and OD uses? … Read more
Remove Obstacles That Are Slowing Down Your Hiring Process
Prior to our last economic downturn in 2008, a company’s approach was — “What’s in it for us” and if a prospect didn’t meet those requirements, or … Read more
Reduce Complexity to Achieve Data-Driven Hiring
Technology was supposed to make hiring simple. In practice, it may have done the opposite. We now have an excessive patchwork of tools, tabs, spreadsheets, … Read more
Proceed With Caution When Assessing Someone Using Social Media
There are many different new tools that allow an employer to try to measure someone’s personality using a job candidate’s social media … Read more