“I think I’ll lose my job tomorrow,” I told my husband. Earlier that day, the day after Labor Day, my third manager in a year had set a mandatory … Read more
Onboarding Habits We Ought to Quit
In 1987 I took a summer job in a medical supplies distribution warehouse. My responsibility was mainly “picking.” I assembled and prepared daily orders for … Read more
Job Seeker Nation Report: 82% of Workers Seeking New Opportunities
If there’s one thing that jumps out from Jobvite’s 2018 Job Seeker Nation Study, it’s this: they hit you immediately with the huge … Read more
The Last Recruiter: AI and Recruiting
A long time ago, in a conference room far, far away, I was asked by an HR executive if the ATS I was implementing would eliminate the need for recruiters. … Read more
Improve Retention Up to 50 Percent Because Post-Exit Interviews Get More Honest Answers
Most corporate retention programs are driven by emotion rather than data. As a result, even though a data-driven “loss prevention” effort is common … 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 Desk Is Kinda Small, the Office Is Cramped, But There’s a Stunning View In This New Onboarding Video
In a new, memorable onboarding video, current employees give incoming employees advice (“don’t talk for your first three years”), warn … Read more
The Amazing ’25 Names Approach’ for Filling Your Talent Pipeline Simultaneously With Every Hire
Not using the hiring process for name capturing for future jobs is a missed opportunity Few hiring managers and recruiters realize that the hiring process … Read more
Diversity’s Revolving Door — With 2x the Turnover, a Diversity Retention Program Is Needed
Most firms have no idea that they have a revolving door that is bleeding diversity talent, because unexplainably, they don’t measure and report diversity … Read more
Ouch, 50% Of New Hires Fail! 6 Ugly Numbers Revealing Recruiting’s Dirty Little Secret
Large corporations have thousands of business processes, but I doubt that you’ve ever heard of a single process that has a 50 percent failure rate. So your … Read more
Frustrated With Your Recruiting Results? Ask New Hires ‘What Worked’
It’s a basic law for business process improvement. When your process is completed, you survey your users to find out what worked and what didn’t work. In … Read more
Intel’s Latest Acquisition Will Speed-Up the Mass Unemployment of Truckers, Drivers
In the next decade, robots could replace 1.7 million American truckers, a workforce that represents one of the last remaining careers to offer a … Read more
In an Interconnected Digital Business World … Why Is Recruiting Still An Island?
a “think piece” designed to stimulate your thinking about strategic recruiting Corporate recruiting, unfortunately, operates as if it were an island. … Read more
The Top 5 Power Tips For Selling Extremely Hard-to-close Candidates
In this obviously tight job market, I estimate that it has become at least 25 percent harder to sell the most in-demand candidates. And closing the best is … Read more
A Contrarian Perspective on Hiring for ‘Fit’
Many industries today are accelerating their focus on innovation to capture opportunities in ever-changing markets. CHROs and recruitment leaders are being … 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
Develop a Process for Limiting Early New-hire Turnover
Early new-hire turnover is one of the most frustrating (40 percent of new hires leave within six months) and expensive (the cost of losing a new hire is at … Read more
Your Talent Pipeline Needs a Roto-Router Because It’s Not Producing
A comprehensive name-capturing guide for identifying who should be in your recruiting pipeline Let’s get straight to the point: having an external … Read more
4 Questions You Need to Ask Before You Hire Someone Who Just Got Fired
It’s tough to find the perfect candidate for any job. You need to make sure the skill set is a match, and the company culture is a fit. You want someone … Read more
For Quality Hires, On-site Staffing Firms are Best
It is rare to find a large medical device manufacturing facility today that doesn’t take advantage of temporary labor. As the number of orders for products … Read more