by admin | Jan 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
What Will This Decade Bring to the Talent World?I was looking back at the 1920s to see what changes they experienced and found myself amazed. The 1920s brought us from the biggest boom in the stock market to the crash of 1929. (Are we poised for this again maybe?)The...
by admin | Jan 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Need for a People StrategyKey question for you: What is your organization’s strategy for ensuring it has the right talent for this decade? My bet is that it doesn’t have one.Every organization has some sort of business strategy and most likely a technology and...
by admin | Dec 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Preventing Employee TurnoverIn a talent constrained market such as we have experienced for the past decade, turnover is big issue.The downsides are many: loss of skills and experience, lost productivity during replacement, cost of replacement, and stress on other...
by admin | Dec 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
Six Ways to Influence Hiring ManagersIf you ask a recruiter who their primary customer is, they will most likely tell you that it is the hiring manager. Indeed, they are core to any recruiter’s work and success. Without a hiring manager, there is no work, and without...
by admin | Dec 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
A Day in A Recruiter’s Life & What Needs to ChangeIt’s 7:30 a.m. and John rolls into the parking lot at CS4 Corporation, slurping a huge latte and wearily heading in to the office to start reviewing resumes. Most mornings he is greeted with at least 50 new...
by admin | Nov 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
For our readers in the United States, Happy Thanksgiving.Rethinking Who We Hire and Where We FocusArtificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing have changed work and, along with it, the focus of recruiting. Over the past twenty years at...
by admin | Nov 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Can A.I. Predict Employee Success?Most recruiters and hiring managers struggle to predict whether or not a candidate will be successful once hired. In fact, the data shows that their predictions are not much better than if they had made a random selection. Employee...
by admin | Nov 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Automated Coaching & LearningCoaching as a way to help develop and retain employees has become more popular and important. Research and experience tells us that when employees lack opportunities to grow and advance in their careers, they leave for other...
by admin | Nov 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
Should Recruiting Be Automated?I have written a lot about recruitment process automation. I believe it is possible to automate a large percentage of what the average recruiter does today. My thoughts are illustrated in the diagram above.Because of access to large...
by admin | Oct 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
Microsites for More Effective RecruitingAlmost everyone has a career site but unfortunately they are often not as effective as they could be. The typical career site is generic and paints a broad picture of the organization and the jobs that are available. While this...
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