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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Stop the Insanity: You’ll *Never* Reach Diversity Goals Until You Shift to a Data-Driven Approach
If you have direct access to recruiting leaders like I do, you would quickly learn that upward of 95 percent of large corporate diversity recruiting … Read more
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 … Read more
We Built a Crystal Ball for Recruiting … and Can Predict Which Reqs Will Be at Risk
If metrics are like headlights that allow us to see where our business is going, predictive metrics are the high beams. You can see further out and avoid … Read more
How Talent Acquisition Leaders Can Be Super Valuable
Being invaluable means that you offer something unique and valuable that no one else in your circle does. I have been blessed; this was very easy for me to … Read more
Predicting Which New Hires Will Quit — a Checklist for Spotting Early ‘Flight Risks’
Corporations are currently encountering the highest voluntary turnover rate in a decade. And when they have to refill the position that was vacated by an … Read more
Time to Fill Sets Record In April at 29 Days
Across all industries and all jobs, it took employers an average of 29.3 working days to fill a vacancy in April. That trumps by almost a full day the … Read more
Important Recruiting Lessons from LeBron, Stephen Curry, and Other Game Changers
LeBron James and Stephen Curry are without a doubt both great basketball players. However, those in recruiting should also realize that these two game … Read more
How to Lower Your Time to Hire to 1 Day With a Collaborative Hiring Process
Can you recruit someone in under 24 hours? So when I say recruit, I mean from when you first make contact with them, all the way through to a job offer not … Read more
Hiring Managers Think Recruiters Are Getting Worse – Here’s What To Do About It
The topic of my talk at the ERE conference in New Orleans this fall is “Using Data to Drive a Consultative, Proactive Talent-Acquisition Function.” … Read more