The future of recruiting is scientific, data-driven, and businesslike. The roadblock to that transition is our current “art not science” approach where … Read more
My Journey to a Data-driven Talent-acquisition Team
I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to build a new talent-acquisition team from scratch. I faced the tough challenge of building metrics that enabled … Read more
Recruiting’s Top 7 Bottom-line Business Impacts That Most Ignore
The ultimate goal of any business function should be to have a direct and measurable impact on their company’s bottom line and corporate strategic goals. … 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
Exploring the Only Recruitment Metric That Matters: Quality of Hire
Performance metrics are important for all company departments and positions. The right goals keep employees motivated and the organization successful: … Read more
Recruit Your Super Bowl Lineup
This article is way overdue. To be exact, it is now four years overdue. On February 1, 2015, I was sitting at a hotel lounge in Las Vegas watching the … Read more
The 2 Most Important Employer-branding Metrics
If you’re starting from scratch on your employer-branding metrics, there are two major buckets you should be thinking about in order to have a strong … Read more
5 Key Metrics for Your Talent Pipeline
Many talent-acquisition teams are starting to proactively nurture pools of candidates into pipelines or talent communities. When a new req comes in, a … Read more
Improve Talent Performance by Adding Prescriptive Actions to Your Metrics
This “think piece” is designed to stimulate your thinking about a major omission from your talent metrics. Can you imagine the frustration that a manager … Read more
These Speed-of-Hire Metrics Will Convince Your Managers to Hire Faster
Increasing your speed of hire ranks as the No. 2 option for improving a firm’s quality of hire. The competition for talent is so high these days, that if … Read more
The Talent-acquisition Metric that Matters: Hiring Velocity
Apologies upfront, but I am probably going to get a bit pedantic here. We know that there are numerous metrics and measurements in the TA space, and we … Read more
Slow Hiring Is Damaging Your Firm and Here Are 20 Reasons Why
Few realize that increasing your hiring speed often has the second-largest impact on hiring results (after referral hires). Most track time to fill, but … Read more
A Simplified Way to Measure the Value of Your Recruiting
Measuring the overall effectiveness of your talent acquisition strategy can be challenging at best. There are so many metrics to keep track of, and many … Read more
This Big Fish Swims Fast to Bring ‘Experience of a Lifetime’ to Vail Resorts
David Reed is the VP of global talent at Vail Resorts, the premier mountain resort company with a simple mission: “Experience of a Lifetime.” That … Read more
The Only Speed Metric You Need
Over the past two years, I’ve spent a good amount of time talking to companies about their metrics, and while most companies don’t have good data, almost … Read more
The Future of Hiring Is Quality of Hire
The function responsible for identifying, engaging, and bringing talent into an organization has lived under a variety of names over the decades, ranging … Read more
Rewire Your Brain to Present Talent-acquisition Metrics Differently
People, I am sure you have read enough posts about metrics that state “predictive analytics” is the pinnacle of the mountain we must aspire to as a … Read more
Average Time to fill Takes Big Drop In May. But Is It Temporary?
It took an average of 27.6 working days to fill a job in May, according to the latest data from career site publisher DHI Group. That’s the fewest … Read more
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. … Read more
The Top 7 Ways to Get Hiring Managers to Devote More Time to Recruiting
Of all of the contributing factors that lead to success in recruiting, the hiring manager has the highest overall impact. For example, one study found that … Read more