Areas where recruiting must change during 2015 If you are frustrated because your recruiting approaches are no longer producing great results, you will be … Read more
Hire to Hurt: the Boldest Recruiting Strategy of Them All
The recruiting function is unique among business functions because almost no one in recruiting can actually name even a handful of the different strategies … Read more
Aggressive Talent Wars Are Good for Cities
California is often ranked among the world’s most inventive regions. But most observers miss one of the major reasons why: the absence of non-compete … Read more
Recruit Top Prospects During Their ‘Angry Hours’ — Because Timing Is Everything
An in-depth analysis on how the right timing can dramatically improve recruiting In my experience, the hardest-to-recruit exceptional targets are those who … Read more
Retention — The Top 10 Ways a Manager Can Identify Who Is About to Quit
There are few things that are more shocking to a manager then to have one of their top-performing employees suddenly quit on them. Some managers have … Read more
Source of Hire Study: What’s Going On With Recruiting?
Why are employee referrals down? Is LinkedIn now a job board? And what’s the significance of more hires being made the ‘old school’ way … Read more
15 Ultra-bold Recruiting Practices — Are You Falling Behind Your Competitors?
by Trena Luong and John Sullivan In case you haven’t noticed, the world of corporate recruiting has become so intense that formerly rare aggressive and … Read more
End the Shortage — Recruit STEM Women Who Are Working at Your Competitors
I almost broke out laughing when I came across an article in Fast Company magazine entitled Why You Can’t Find Women Engineers. This title reflects a … Read more
Employee-driven Non-compete Litigation: A New Hook on an Old Line
Hypothetical situation: John Smith, an employee with Fast and Speedy Cab Co., a taxi company, leaves his position as a dispatcher. Smith and Fast and … Read more
Stop Your Firm’s Brain Drain – Convincing Innovators to Choose an Established Firm Over a Startup
John Sullivan and Trena Luong There is an innovator brain drain going on.… Read more
Talent Management Lessons From the Super Bowl for Corporate Leaders
A couple years back I was asked to outline “the future of talent management” in a talk at Google headquarters. Then as now, I predicted the future of … Read more
Oil and Pregnancy Don’t Mix, But Apples and Berries Do
Maybe not so much for apples and oranges, but BlackBerrys and Apples do indeed mix. Within days of last month’s announcement of 4,500 upcoming … Read more
The Government Shutdown Provides a Great Recruiting Opportunity
It’s hard to miss the troubling news about the “government shutdown” and the “debt default crisis,” but what has not received a lot of press attention is … Read more
A Look at the Retention and Attraction Competition Between 7 Tech Companies
Headhunting from your competitors is a great place to start recruiting, and a strategy that everyone employs. So this must also be the case when companies … Read more
Comparing the Competencies Between a “RINO” and an Exceptional Recruiter
Recruiting is a unique field because it has no entry barriers. Unlike most professions, you can become a corporate recruiter without any formal … Read more
USC Lures Two Top Scientists: A Case Study in Recruitment Poaching
After years of unsuccessfully courting two of the world’s preeminent neuroscientists with offers of more money, bigger and better facilities, a … Read more
Don’t Blame The Headhunters — Get Better at Keeping Your Employees
While working in-house as a headhunter (the real market-mapping and cold-call headhunting “headhunter”) I often got asked the question about the ethics of … Read more
Acqui-hiring: A Powerful Recruiting Strategy That You’ve Never Heard of
The war for technical talent is so intense that a handful of firms like Google, Facebook, Cisco, Apple, Twitter, and Zynga have shifted to a powerful but … Read more
‘Tis the Season for Recruiting — 20 Reasons Why December Is a Powerful Recruiting Month
If you work in an office, you realize that many times the Christmas season can be a less hectic and even a slack period. In most cases everyone, including … Read more
Another Recruiting Lawsuit: This Time EBay
There was that Kixeye-Zynga battle I mentioned this week. Now, the U.S. government is suing Ebay, saying it agreed with Intuit not to hire from each other. … Read more