I once did a study to measure the commercial impact of poor candidate experience in a large subscription based telco business called Virgin Media. You … Read more
Muzzle Will Stop an Embarrassing Desktop Notification from Ruining Your Next Skype Interview
A few years ago, I gave a webinar entitled something like “The Top Ten iPhone Apps for Recruiting.” To my surprise, the app that received the … Read more
Montage Acquires Video Interview Competitor
GreenJobInterview, an early entrant in the video interview arena, is being acquired by Montage, one of its two leading competitors. No financial details … Read more
Skype Finally Gets Serious About Being a Video Interviewing Tool
There’s no shortage of video interviewing tools in the recruiting industry. Green Job Interview, HireVue, Take the Interview, Montage, Wepow, … Read more
Experiential Interviews: 4 Steps to Help You Identify Superior Talent
If you’re still using conventional interviews when hiring, I’ve got bad news — common interviewing methods set you and hiring managers up to … Read more
Canvas Looks to Take on TextRecruit Following its $1.7 Million Seed Round
Hot off TextRecruit’s recent $3 million raise, a new competitor has arisen. Indianapolis-based Canvas is the brainchild of former Cha Cha executive … Read more
How to Keep Candidates Warm During the Recruiting Process
One of the biggest complaints candidates have about working with internal and external recruiters is the spottiness of the communication between them. … 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
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 … Read more
An Interview Is Not a Test — Prep Candidates for Success
Why has the interview experience been set up to be like a pop quiz for the candidate with no real idea of how or why certain questions are important? We … Read more
Survey Says Job Seekers Are Mostly OK Engaging With Chatbots
Job seekers have had to endure the resume blackhole for decades, and it turns out that lack of response from a perspective employer has led to lowered … Read more
My Favorite Interview Question
It’s a no brainer that knowing the reasons a candidate has applied for a job will help you win them over in the offer stage. My favorite question in a … Read more
Let’s Get Serious: Culture Fit Matters
There’s a new trend afoot among the “thought leaders” bubbling up: culture fit doesn’t matter, it’s all about values. Focus … 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
Predictive Analytics, Bias, and Interviewing
For centuries people have been captivated by the idea of predicting the future (and I’ll be offering my own predictions on the stage in a few days). … Read more
How to Assess Candidates With These Surprising Job Interview Questions
From a young age, I played baseball. It was something I loved to do, and it bled into many aspects of life, both then and now. For example, whenever my … Read more
Candidate Coaching Improves Hiring Results — So Stop Losing Candidates For Preventable Reasons
If you are failing to coach your candidates prior to their interview, you may be unnecessarily losing as many as 20 percent of your qualified candidates … Read more
A Better Way to Assess Exceptional vs. Average Performance in an Interview
I want to give you a blueprint for what I believe based on my experience and research is the best way to structure your interview framework to produce a … Read more
4 Ways to Repel Top Talent With Scarce Skills
Let’s acknowledge that, despite our widespread desire to offer a great candidate experience to every applicant for every role, talent acquisition functions … Read more
Revelation! Unconscious Bias Hurts Your Hiring Results Across All Candidates
One of the primary reasons why increasing amounts of technology are entering the recruiting space is the recognition that recruiters and hiring managers … Read more