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 aren’t exactly useful. Here’s a simple metric that we adopted from marketing: total talent acquisition…
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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 provides a great platform for a premier employment brand — but that doesn’t make it…
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 every company was able to quote me their time to fill number. …
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 from staffing to recruitment to talent acquisition to search operations to future state buzz-heavy names like talent…
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 profession. Yes, forward-looking metrics that help you be more proactive vs. rear-view-mirror looking…
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 days since January, and almost three days fewer than it took in April….
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…
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 recruiting’s relationship with the hiring manager was the No. 1 driver of overall talent…
Open Letter to the CEO and CHRO: You’re Disconnected On Talent Priorities.
Dear Mr/s CEO and CHRO, I needed to send you this important note after reading all those McKinsey and Gartner “What are the CEO’s priorities?” survey results for the last few years. You have also read and probably participated in them…
Who Wants to Be a Recruiting Metric-Aire?
If you’ve been in HR for any amount of time, you know that people want to hear about metrics. Whether it’s a vendor telling you about their metric heavy dashboard, a VP of talent acquisition spouting the metrics she watches,…
Impress Your CEO by Focusing on the Things They Care About
Contrasting the Factors That CEOs Focus On, With Those That Garner Little Interest One of the reasons why talent managers continually strive to become more strategic is that they want their ideas and problems to be noticed by their CEO….
Tell Me the Talent-acquisition Metrics You Invented (Even the Bad Ones)
As Jessie Garcia and I were prepping for our leadership workshop at the Spring ERE Conference in San Diego on April 18, we had a spirited discussion around the “best metrics for influencing your C-suite.” To say we are both…
Facing a Shortage of Candidates? Discover and Use the Right ‘Attraction Factors’
They call it talent attraction for a reason. Because, obviously, the primary role of the function is to literally “attract” the very best candidates. But when a recruiting function is only guessing about what draws in desirable candidates, it will…
Fast to Hire and Quicker to Inspire: How to Help Managers Speed Up Employee Selection
Hiring is one of the most important tasks done by leaders in your organization. When they get it right, their job (and yours) is made easier. When they get it wrong, everyone’s job becomes harder—possibly putting careers at risk. The…
The Top 10 Strategic HR and TA Metrics That CEOs Want to See
Unfortunately, most of those who create metrics in HR and recruiting don’t really understand the strategic mindset of CEOs. And, as a result, the metrics that are reported to CEOs and the executive committee result in no positive action being…
Why CEOs Don’t Act on Talent Metrics — No Trend Lines, $ Impacts, or Prescriptive Actions
Talent metrics have been a miserable failure! They don’t drive executives to act because they are not forward-looking and they don’t prescribe the needed actions to solve upcoming problems. Yes, after 20+ years of striving to improve metrics in talent…
3 Steps to Become a Metrics-Driven Recruiter
How much does your company spend on agency hires? What are your most valuable recruiting channels? How much budget have you slated for emergency situations? If you can’t answer questions like these with confidence, then you’re not alone. About 75…
3 Ways You Can Measure the Quality of a Hire
CEB, after exhaustive research, concludes that 20 percent of new hires are “regretted decisions.” If this is true, why aren’t more companies testing quality of hire improvement strategies? Quality of hire is the holy grail metric for most recruiting organizations….
Human Capital Is Their No. 1 Challenge, So CEOs Must Demand More From HR!
A recent survey of global CEOs and board chairmen was conducted by the prestigious Conference Board, and it concluded once again that human capital is the top challenge that they face. While some in talent management and HR might feel…
We’re Taking the Plunge and Hiring an Analytics Leader
You might have seen my comment on Raghav Singh’s article about Monster’s fall. I said: “The better companies get at analyzing and using data effectively to drive business decisions (in this case, where to invest recruitment marketing dollars and focus…