Despite all the technological advances in recruiting, most hiring managers are surprised to learn that the best way to find and hire top candidates still … Read more
Suffering a Shortage of Applicants? A Checklist Covering the Top 10 Reasons Why
When a corporate recruiting function conducts an audit, I find that the resulting data usually reveals that the recruiting problems that dramatically … Read more
Employee Referral Platform Teamable Raises $5 Million, Acquires Simppler
San Francisco-based Teamable, which uses social networks to facilitate employee referrals, has raised $5 million in additional funds and acquired Simppler, … Read more
End Your Seasonal Recruiting Problems — The Top 10 Proven Solutions
Why You Are Losing “The War For Seasonal Talent” Explained Managers who must recruit seasonal staff need to wake up and realize that the recruiting … Read more
The Top 8 Reasons to Refocus on Employee Referrals During Low Unemployment
Employee referral programs should be producing 50 percent of all of your hires because they are the most powerful corporate recruiting tool by far. Over … Read more
A Story Inventory Will Allow You to WOW Top Candidates
How Stories Will Dramatically Improve Your Recruiting Results If you want to improve your recruiting results dramatically, one of the smartest things that … Read more
Employees Excel at Selling Candidates – The Warriors’ ‘Hampton 5 Story’
When it comes to closing top candidates, your own employees are the best salespeople. Top recruiting leaders already know the tremendous value that a firm … Read more
Poor Recruiting Is Killing Retail — the Top 12 Tips for Stopping the Pain
The biggest threat to retail isn’t Amazon. It’s poor recruiting! Skeptical? Well, look no further than the recent announcement that the famous and … Read more
Another Employee-referral Platform Is Going Bye-Bye
I wrote about Indeed’s dip into the referral program business back in September 2016 with a post entitled We Are All Recruiters Thanks to Indeed … Read more
Boomerangs — The No. 1 Solution for Reducing the Need to Hire ‘Stranger Candidates’
Most have never heard of “stranger candidates.” However, most firms hire almost exclusively from a group of candidates who they knew nothing about before … Read more
Adopt Same-Day Hiring or Lose Your Top Candidates With Multiple Offers
Heads up: you are probably unwittingly damaging your firm’s hiring results. Slow hiring during periods of record low employment means that top candidates … Read more
Indeed.com Survey: Here’s Why People Don’t Share Your Job Openings on Social Media
Employee referral programs are consistently at the top of the source-of-hire list. Refer a friend to your employer, and if they get hired, you get paid. … Read more
We Asked 145 Companies About Their Referral Programs. Here’s What We Learned
If you’ve ever had to fight an internal battle to get an employee referral bonus approved, this post is for you. Referrals and networking are the … Read more
WOW Hiring Managers by Projecting a Candidate’s Performance and Promotion Trajectories
Imagine a recruiting session with your hiring manager where you are selecting from among three finalists who all seem to be about equal in their required … Read more
Building an Advanced Talent Acquisition Function Today — People and TA Structures (Part 1 of 3)
I wrote an article not too long ago called What does an advanced talent acquisition function look like?, and received a fair few calls about it. A lot of … Read more
Security Giant Telling Organizations They’ll Get $400 for a Hire
Allied Universal, the 150,000-employee security company hiring about 50,000 new employees over the next few months, is trying a new spin on referrals, … Read more
What Worked and Didn’t Work for Us When Quickly Building a Technical Team
Cities like Seattle, San Francisco, New York, and where we are based — Austin, Texas — are typically underserved with highly skilled … Read more
It’s Time to Build a Strong Foundation of Core Fundamentals for Recruiting
I’m a big proponent of innovation in the talent acquisition space. When it comes to innovative talent-acquisition technology, I’ve been an early adopter, … Read more
Need More Strategic Thinkers? Here’s How to Hire Them
What firm doesn’t need to be strategic? In fact, what could contribute more to the success of an organization in today’s fast-changing world of business … Read more
How to Throw a LinkedIn Party and Reach 100 Candidates in an Hour
Imagine a scenario where you find 100 excellent candidates in 90 minutes, and, as a bonus, you make your current employees recruiting evangelists. The one … Read more