by Kevin Wheeler | Feb 28, 2012 | ERE Articles
Never before has the time been riper for recruiters to make a real difference to the profitability of their firms. The differentiator between profits, innovative products, and long-term success is, very simply, the quality of talent. As gatekeepers, your function is...
by Kevin Wheeler | Jan 4, 2012 | ERE Articles
I was just reviewing the predictions I made for 2011 written at roughly this time a year ago. Much of what I thought would happen unfolded as expected, except for talent management. I had thought there would more focus on integrating the employee development and...
by Kevin Wheeler | Jan 3, 2012 | ERE Articles
Recruiting never seems to change very much. As I have often written, even with computers, smart phones, cheap video, big bandwidth, and years of accumulated experience, the way we look for people and select them looks very much the same as it looked 50 years ago. The...
by Kevin Wheeler | Dec 3, 2011 | Bold HR Ideas
The year is 1967 and an academic named Marshall McLuhan writes a book. It’s a book called “The Medium is the Massage,” with only a few pages, pictures, white space and not very many words. It would revolutionize how we think about media. The title: “The Medium is the...
by Kevin Wheeler | Nov 16, 2011 | Bold HR Ideas
At our Future of Talent Retreat this past weekend, I laid out the five trends I see as dominating the next decade or more. In an age of mechanization, such as the 20th century, we glorified all things mechanical and we developed hierarchal and mechanistic systems to...
by Kevin Wheeler | Nov 8, 2011 | ERE Articles
I am not sure about you, but I am reading more and more about the power of “big data.” Forrester, McKinsey, and IBM have all issued white papers or reports in the last month or two discussing the impact that the analysis of big data will have on business. Big data...
by Kevin Wheeler | Oct 7, 2011 | Bold HR Ideas
We toss the word community around a lot in recruiting, but most of us do not have a very clear definition of what makes it different from a database or a talent pool. A talent pool typically is a group of people who have been screened at least a little. They are...
by Kevin Wheeler | Sep 27, 2011 | ERE Articles
Recruiters and hiring managers love interviews. I have never been sure why that’s the case, but it seems to satisfy a human need for power and control. An interviewer has power to recommend for a job or not. Sometimes an interviewer has the power to actually make the...
by Kevin Wheeler | Sep 11, 2011 | Bold HR Ideas
SLIDESHOW FROM A RECENT TRU LONDON Most conference follow a traditional pattern: Keynote talks, general sessions, panels, and break out sessions. There is almost always a vendor section where you can get demonstrations of software products, meet key users and try out...
by Kevin Wheeler | Aug 17, 2011 | ERE Articles
Negotiating the conditions of employment, hedging one job with another, being wary of accepting full-time jobs that put at risk other work or that compromise skill — those are becoming the normal patterns for accomplished professionals. Individuals are finding new...
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