Why Do We Love Hiring Shenanigans?
Have you ever asked candidates to come in for six, eight, or even 10 interviews? Does your culture demand that candidates answer weird and irrelevant questions like those infamous ones Microsoft used to ask about why manhole covers are round or how many eggs it takes to fill up a school bus?
It's All About Performance
It's all about performance. Over the past four or five years, I have seen a steady increase in organizations spending time and effort to define and measure employee performance.
What's Hot for 2008?
I am always looking for trends or emerging practices that are changing, or at least influencing, the way we source and recruit talent.
Web 2.0 Recruiting is Here
My friend Sue, a project manager and an expert in the biomedical arena, was looking for a job change. Her husband had taken a new position with a firm several hundred miles away from where they lived, and she was in pursuit of her next gig.
What Does the CEO Think About You?
You would probably be very surprised to know what the CEO of your organization thinks about you. Rather than having a negative view, most CEOs I have spoken with believe you have almost magical powers. They assume you know where talent is located and how to find it.