A New Look At Which Job Skills Are Critical

The Rise of Innovation, Diversity, and TeamworkThe pandemic, artificial intelligence, and remote access have changed work and, along with it, the focus of recruiting.Over the past twenty years, The focus of much recruiting has been on hiring highly skilled and...

Women are Stressed and Angry

Strategies for Change Women report high levels of stress and burnout as they juggle work, family, and household responsibilities.  Even though we supposedly live in a more egalitarian society, the home, cooking, and childcare responsibilities still fall primarily on...

Love the Rebels – Hiring for Innovation

Emerging Trends in Hiring Job RequirementsIn 2019, Ukraine elected a very unconventional president, Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky was a comedian and an actor with no political experience. One newspaper wrote,“Ukrainians are waking up this morning and discovering that...

Creating the Recruiting “Experience”

Lessons From the World of RetailingIt is increasingly difficult to recruit solely on the basis of salary or benefits or even on the merits of a particular job.  With everyone offering almost the same packages, tweaked and customized as they are, how can an...

Measuring Success Objectively

Quantifying ValueRecruiters have not paid very much attention to the quantitative side of the quality of hire. We frequently talk about hiring manager satisfaction and other subjective measures of quality. Still, I don’t know of any recruiting function that has even...