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
Source for Skills Developed Outside Their Day Job — Lessons From the Army’s Esports Team
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
A Buddy Hiring Program Attracts, Retains, and Increases Productivity
Gallup research found that working with your best friend was a powerful motivating factor, so McDonald’s and the Army now have buddy hiring programs. … Read more
One Company’s Experience Using Hiring Assessments
Do personality assessment tests really work? We are going to discuss the why, when, and how to give assessment tests. The podcast is with David Ferguson, … Read more
Walking Employees Downstream Improves Retention, Productivity, Recruiting, and Engagement (Part 2 of 2)
Implementing a walk-them-downstream retention and recruiting approach Part II of this two-part series focuses on implementing a “walking employees … Read more
Walking Employees Downstream Improves Retention, Productivity, Recruiting, and Engagement (Part 1 of 2)
The Powerful Impacts From Showing Employees That Their Work Is Meaningful Forget engagement survey results. If you really want to kickstart actual hands-on … 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
How to Keep Pre-hire Assessments From Wrecking the Candidate Experience
“Can assessments and a positive candidate experience peacefully coexist?” Gerry Crispin, co-founder of CareerXroads and the TalentBoard, has an answer: … Read more
Your Guide to Conducting High-quality Interviews
Talent acquisition exists for one reason only: to add value to the organization through supporting revenue generation or reducing costs. How you do that … Read more
A Candidate Like No Other
In most workplaces. It’s still one size fits all in policies, processes, and tools. We no longer live in a data-poor world, but we continue to use … Read more
The Top 5 No-cost Candidate-selling Approaches
In last week’s companion article “The Top 5 No Cost Sourcing Approaches — And Each Is Guaranteed To Work,” I covered the five best no-cost approaches … Read more
Could We Hire 2 Personalities for the Price of 1?
I’ve been doing a lot of research into modern assessment tools, including everything from games to even DNA assessments. Two types of assessments I … Read more
‘Corporate Skill Pivots’ May Signal the End of the Permanent Employees
Forget the job threats created by the march of the robots, because the new skill sets required by radical new technologies are much more likely to cause … Read more
The Future of Recruiting Will Combine Hiring Machines With Psychology
When it comes to AI-based hiring assessment tools, we are presently at the bottom of the Technology Adoption Curve staring upward. Those brave enough to be … Read more