Recruiters have always been tasked with the responsibility of maintaining a network of contacts outside the company so that when openings become available they know who to call to get those jobs filled. But what if instead of going outside…
Retention & Engagement
Improve Retention Up to 50 Percent Because Post-Exit Interviews Get More Honest Answers
Most corporate retention programs are driven by emotion rather than data. As a result, even though a data-driven “loss prevention” effort is common throughout the business, there is no one in the retention team who quantifies the percentage of turnover that…
This Wharton ‘Startup Challenge’ Winner Wants to Improve Your Internal Hiring
Startup Twine, created by Wharton MBA 2017 graduates Joseph Quan and Nikhil Srivastava, beat out 28 other semifinalists to win the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Entrepreneurship’s first “Startup Challenge.” Twine’s software uses algorithms with the goal of aiding companies in determining…
Without Metrics, Weak Onboarding Will Neutralize Your Recruiting Results
Think about it for a minute. You devote thousands of dollars and hundreds of management hours to recruiting, and as a result, you land a great candidate. But all that is for naught if the new hire gets off to…
Culture Is Talent Acquisition’s, Not Just HR’s, Responsibility
There comes a point in your recruiting career when culture, employee retention, and organizational health become even more interesting than the daily hunt for new talent. The thought of “your” new hires leaving your company prematurely or underperforming on the…
At Cisco, We’re Trying to Create Our Own ‘Gig Economy’ for Employees
As consumers, we’ve come to expect that when we want something, we can get it. Whether that’s a taxi, a grocery delivery, or your favorite ice cream delivered to your door. The concept of “on demand” is no longer a…
Diversity’s Revolving Door — With 2x the Turnover, a Diversity Retention Program Is Needed
Most firms have no idea that they have a revolving door that is bleeding diversity talent, because unexplainably, they don’t measure and report diversity turnover and the cost. But what if your executives knew that diversity turnover “was off the…
The State of Recruitment: Operating with Integrity
Frequent corporate missteps have hit the headlines recently in the traditional press, not to mention social media channels where numerous cringe-worthy incidents are shared around the globe in a matter of minutes. No industry is immune: the airline, automotive, accounting,…
Ouch, 50% Of New Hires Fail! 6 Ugly Numbers Revealing Recruiting’s Dirty Little Secret
Large corporations have thousands of business processes, but I doubt that you’ve ever heard of a single process that has a 50 percent failure rate. So your firm’s executives will be shocked to learn that the recruiting process (the HR…
Talent Shortage Problem Solved! Create a Recruiting Culture
How leaders can stop worrying about their persistent and damaging talent shortage It’s hard to find a large corporation, a tech firm, or a small business that isn’t currently suffering from a shortage of top talent with the required skills….
In an Interconnected Digital Business World … Why Is Recruiting Still An Island?
a “think piece” designed to stimulate your thinking about strategic recruiting Corporate recruiting, unfortunately, operates as if it were an island. Recruiting can, justifiably, be accused of acting as if it is an autonomous corporate entity because it seldom has…
Want Managers To Focus On Retention? — Show Them The $ Impacts Of Turnover
Almost everyone in talent management agrees that managers don’t place enough emphasis on employee retention, despite the fact that retention is often ranked as the No. 1 people-management problem. In fact, according to a recent PayScale survey, “63 percent of…
Jobs Grow by 156K in December; Wages Take Jump
Ending the year much as it began, employers hired a modest 156,000 new workers in December, bringing the total for 2016 to 2.16 million new jobs. In 2015, employers added 2.74 million. While this morning’s jobs estimate from the Labor…
What the Data Tells Us about Hiring Trends in 2017
At Glassdoor, I spend my time trying to make sense of the labor market through research, primarily with our own data. In 2016 I learned a lot about hiring challenges facing both the recruiter and job seeker, about how the…
What to Like (and not) About LinkedIn Salary
Earlier this month, LinkedIn introduced LinkedIn Salary for users in the U.S., UK, and Canada (rollout to the rest of the world is expected in 2017). The crowdsourced salary database — which places LinkedIn squarely in Glassdoor’s neighborhood — enables…
Millennials Are Different — Very Different
Like any generation, millennials do a lot that give HR teams pause. Gen X was difficult to manage and motivate, and had different perspectives on work and work/life balance than previous generations. There are skill gaps between new young hires…
Hiring a CEO? The Data Behind What Makes a Great One
CEOs are measured on everything. Company earnings, culture, leadership, employee retention, business trajectory, and so on. It’s no wonder the corporate executive role is ranked No. 7 on Forbes’ list of the 10 Most Stressful Jobs for 2016. But what…
You Can’t Calculate Employer Branding’s ROI if You Omit Its Negative Impacts
Understanding the Top 10 Problems Associated With Having a Strong Employer Brand There are only two long-term strategic recruiting approaches: employer brand building, and talent pipelining. Of the two options, employer brand-building is by far the most powerful. In fact,…
Good, But Not Good Enough: Matching Workers with High-growth Jobs
In the six years since the global financial crisis, the U.S. economy has gained much of the economic strength that was lost in the recession. In the last month alone, the economy showed a robust hiring rate of 287,000, the…
How Using a Single Broad Turnover Measure Can Cost Your Corporation Million$
Business Impact Turnover Measures That Can Dramatically Improve Employee Retention The simplistic and broad turnover metrics used by most corporations hide the real truth about the business impacts of employee turnover. And as a result, few executives realize that the…