Future of Talent Institute Weekly – Issue #21

The Value of Onboarding New Employees EffectivelyI remember showing up for my first corporate job early one summer morning. When I presented myself to the security guard, he made a phone call to the person who had hired me, but no one answered. We waited a while, and...

Future of Talent Institute Weekly – Issue #19

21st Century Talent LeadershipLeadership is hard to define. One might say, “I know it when I see it, but I can’t tell you exactly what it is.” We have all probably worked for good leaders – people who inspired us, excited us, or challenged us. And, we have also all...

Future of Talent Institute Weekly – Issue #18

Specialist or Generalist?We live in an era where the specialist has been dominant. Recruiters and hiring managers are on the hunt for engineers, coders, machine learning experts. PhDs and people with master’s degrees are sought with diligence. Even in HR and...

Chatbots, A.I. and the Future of Candidate Engagement

Chatbots, A.I. and the Future of Candidate EngagementAllyo’s recent ability to raise a record $45 million from the investment community should be proof that chatbots are becoming a powerful tool for engaging candidates and building candidate relationships.It is no...

Traditional Recruitment Metrics are Useless

Traditional Recruitment Metrics are UselessIf metrics are supposed to give us data so that we can make recruitment more effective and efficient they have failed – badly.In most organizations, the commonly reported metrics have been relatively unchanging for months and...