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
‘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
Employers Operating in England (and the U.S. Too) Should Get to Know the Apprenticeship Levy
A crucial part of reforming the Apprenticeship Program, the Apprenticeship Levy was created to help grow the quantity and quality of apprenticeships across … Read more
Blue Collar Blues: Recruiting Manufacturing Workers
Manufacturing in America is huge. Over the last 20 years manufacturing output has increased by almost 40 percent, and the annual value of production by … Read more
Kick-Start Your Firm’s Growth By Hiring Candidates With Game-changer Competencies
This article covers how you can directly accelerate your firm’s growth rate through recruiting. If you’re skeptical about whether that is possible, be … Read more
What 1 Company Is Doing About Manufacturing’s Skills Shortage
Manufacturing is not the object of the media’s affection like the technology field is, but it has a skills shortage of its own. In the eight-minute … Read more
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality: The Next Frontier
It’s early, but virtual reality is showing some promise as a recruiting tool. Employers ranging from the British Army to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia … Read more
TA Survey: Hiring Managers Say They Can Recruit Better
LAS VEGAS — There’s an amazing difference in how talent acquisition leaders and hiring managers see recruiting at their company. TA leaders … Read more
Tests Are Better at Hiring Than You
When hiring managers and recruiters use their discretion to overrule the results of assessment tests, their hires do less well than workers selected … Read more
What’s the State of Talent Acquisition In 2016?
When it comes to hiring managers, agency recruiters have a lot in common with their counterparts in the corporate world. Both are discouraged by the … Read more
Take 10 to Take Our Talent Acquisition Survey
Did you know the average cost of hire is $4,200? That 45 percent of a recruiter’s time is spent filling jobs due to attrition? That last year it was … Read more
Recruiting’s Not the Hot Skill It Was (But Here’s What Is)
First the bad news: Recruiting failed to make LinkedIn’s list of the year’s 25 most in-demand skills. After making the list of the most … Read more
How Do I Get More Production From My Team?
Dear Barbara: How do I get my employees to set and achieve higher goals? They are earning more than they’ve ever earned, get comfortable and seem to lose … Read more
Fill More Orders With More Candidates
Dear Barbara: My recruiters are only filling 12% of the job orders we are writing. The orders not being filled are good orders that are obviously being … Read more
“Old School” Recruiters Do Need to Learn New Tricks
Dear Barbara: I’m an old school recruiting guy who doesn’t use job boards or social networks to find my candidates. I have relationships that I’ve built up … Read more
Want Top-performing Hires? Learning Ability May Be The No. 1 Predictor
Everyone involved in corporate recruiting knows that hiring managers value education because we routinely use it as an absolute requirement to screen in or … Read more
Follow Your Bliss to Bigger Billings
Do you love what you do for a living? I remember hearing this quote when I first started out as a recruiter: If you love what you do, you’ll never have to … Read more
Barb’s 21 Day Plan to Improve Your Production
Dear Barbara: I find it very hard to stay motivated daily when the majority of my day is spent leaving voicemails, not getting returned calls, being … Read more
The 12 Practices of Every Big Biller
Once I had the honor of coaching a recruiter (I’ll call him David) who wanted to bill $1,000,000 in one year. He called Paul Hawkinson, then the editor of … Read more
You CAN Conquer the ‘Worst Territory’
How often do you look in the mirror and assess your skills and abilities? After being in the recruiting industry for almost 18 years, I find that people … Read more