If you are a recruiting leader, I would like to introduce you to a concept that many are not familiar with, which is “whole career employment.” The … Read more
Solving the “Candidate Sharing Problem” Using a Social Media Approach
There is probably no more misleading statement in corporate recruiting than “we will keep your application on file for six months.” While such a … Read more
20 Reasons Why LinkedIn Will Be the #1 Recruiting Portal of the Future
This week on ERE.net, there is a unified focus by a wide range of authors on the use of LinkedIn. To me, this focus is justified because LinkedIn has the … Read more
Referrals on the Rise at eBay as it Ponders How to Handle Pipeline
Employee referrals are up at eBay, the owner of such brands as PayPal and StubHub, up enough that it has candidates in a pipeline that is hasn’t … Read more
An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page — Action Steps to Avoid or Turn Around a “Great to Good” Slide (Part 2 of 2)
Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous. So, since becoming CEO again, I’ve pushed hard to … Read more
Which Are More Valuable: Internally or Externally Sourced Candidates?
The science of recruiting is years behind our peers in other disciplines, but when I see research like this journal article, “Paying More to Get … Read more
Unless No One Gets Sick, Quits, or Dies, A Plan’s in Order
Does your organization have a succession program in place? Too many organizations and small businesses default to the practice of reactionary assignment of … Read more
5 Predictions for Recruitment 2012
I was just reviewing the predictions I made for 2011 written at roughly this time a year ago. Much of what I thought would happen unfolded as expected, … Read more
Why Not Start the New Year by Doing Something Strategic in Talent Management?
The New Year is an opportune time to “raise the bar” by doing something strategic in talent management. In many corporations, new plans and budgets take … Read more
Does Your Company’s Passive Talent Acquisition Strategy Need a Chiropractor?
Of late I’ve been making the contention that the strategies and tactics used to recruit active candidates is fundamentally different than the ones used for … Read more
Strategic Market Research: What You Don’t Know Can Kill Your Recruiting! (Part 1 of 2)
I have stated for years that “recruiting is just sales with a crummy budget,” but there is one major differentiator: sales professionals widely accept the … Read more
Talent Management Lessons From Apple … A Case Study of the World’s Most Valuable Firm (Part 2 of 4)
In Part 2 of this case study on Apple’s talent management practices, I look at its approach to innovation, compensation, and benefits, careerpathing, and … Read more
The Complete List of Employee Referral Program Best Practices (Part 2 of 2)
In Part 1 of this series we looked at the first 35 of 70 exceptional employee referral program features. This episode continues with 36-70 and covers … Read more
Recruiting’s Most Strategic Role — Leading a Corporate Turnaround
Few roles could be more important in an organization with deteriorating performance than the roles responsible for crafting a new strategy and the roles … Read more
Climbing the Lattice
With some companies focusing more on internal hiring and beginning to look at new models of working, I’ve heard more comments and questions about “career … Read more
Who Owns Your Talent? (hint: it’s not you…)
It is hard to believe that it has been nearly 10 years to the day since Free Agent Nation was published, and nearly 14 years since the article by Daniel … Read more
At Cisco, Many Top Recruits Are Already on the Payroll
Cisco Systems has been quietly doubling up on its recruiting efforts, but with a twist: the target market is made up of the company’s own employees. … Read more
Succession Management: Let us in. We can help. Sincerely, Recruiting
In the November Journal of Corporate Recruiting Leadership, in an article titled “Talent Acquisition as a Tool of Succession Management,” I discuss … Read more
Building an Internal Mobility Program to Increase a Diverse Employee Population
When you think about building a diverse workforce, an internal mobility program may not be the first thought that comes to mind. In fact, when we at Sodexo … Read more
Internal Talent Integration
How well does your organization select and integrate talent for internal promotion? If you are like many organizations we’ve seen — not very well. … Read more