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
4 Steps to Make Campus Recruitment a More Data-driven Program
Let’s move beyond the “two-years experience required” for entry-level jobs generation of job ads, and talk about how to actually insert … Read more
4 Steps to Defining Your Talent Acquisition Team’s Key Performance Indicators
No matter what team you’re on, you’ve probably been asked to create and share the key performance indicators that measure your efficacy. There are lots of … Read more
We Cracked Open Time-to-Fill and Found Some Weird Stuff
Traditionally, the time-to-fill metric has been used as a scorecard for past performance. An organization may use time to fill to assess the performance of … Read more
The Biggest Mistake In Employer Branding — Failing to Measure the Business Impacts of Employer Branding
In my experience, the current state of employer branding is dismal. I have been developing employer branding solutions since before the advent of … Read more
In Recruiting, Back to Basics Does More Harm Than Good
Back to basics is terrible strategy. Having to engage in such a wasteful activity means people were allowed to stray from these core best practices. Why … Read more
The Right to Hire Fast, Not Slow
The rights of people around the world have been a hot topic for centuries. Most people in the modern world agree that certain rights should be inalienable, … Read more
The Path to Being Globally Consistent and Locally Relevant
As a novice world-traveler, your attention is drawn to the differences between your native culture and the foreign one you are immersed in. However, as you … Read more
A Note to Recruiting Leaders: Reporting Is Not Analytics
There’s a lot of talk currently about the use of analytics in recruiting. Unfortunately, in my experience many talent acquisition leaders seem to be … Read more
Getting Managers to Take Action on Turnover … By Using Heat Maps and Dollar Impacts
Turnover rates are reaching record levels at many firms. But many managers aren’t paying much attention to turnover because, in the corporate world, most … Read more
An ROI Roadmap for Talent Acquisition Leaders
Recruiting leaders are constantly asked to justify additional investments in their team, tools, and technology. At the same time, they face increasing … Read more