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
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