by Kevin Wheeler | Mar 30, 2011 | Bold HR Ideas
One of the greatest myths in recruiting is that interviewing is the best way to assess people. Numerous vendors provide interview training and promise that if you conduct interviews well you will select people who will perform better and stay longer. If you conduct...
by Kevin Wheeler | Mar 22, 2011 | ERE Articles
Recruiting is unfortunately often a way station in a career. It is one stop on the way to becoming an HR executive or to moving on to other things. There are often very limited opportunities for advancement as a recruiter within most organizations, which further...
by Kevin Wheeler | Mar 3, 2011 | Bold HR Ideas
I spoke at the Global Learning Summit in Singapore last week where I listed the trends that I see emerging around the world that will have wide-ranging effects on corporate learning. I was controversial and tried to offer a different slant on what is emerging as best...
by Kevin Wheeler | Mar 2, 2011 | Bold HR Ideas
Maybe all you need for an attraction and sourcing strategy is a good game. The U.S. Army was one of the first organizations to pioneer video games for attracting potential recruits. A couple of years ago the Army launched its highly successful recruiting game...
by Kevin Wheeler | Feb 8, 2011 | ERE Articles
Recruiters have not paid very much attention to the quantitative side of quality of hire. We frequently talk about hiring manger satisfaction and other subjective measures of quality, but I don’t know of any recruiting function that has even tried to measure,...
by Kevin Wheeler | Feb 2, 2011 | Bold HR Ideas
As the years have rolled by I have become more and more aware of how poorly internal recruiting functions perform when compared to recruitment process outsourcing (RPOs) organizations or agencies. These have to make a profit or go out of business. They have to...
by Kevin Wheeler | Jan 26, 2011 | ERE Articles
As the years have rolled by I have become increasingly aware of how poorly internal recruiting functions perform when compared to recruitment process outsourcing organizations or agencies. These have to make a profit or go out of business. They have to operate...
by Kevin Wheeler | Jan 19, 2011 | ERE Articles
Even though we are in an economic down cycle and unemployment in the U.S. is hovering around 10%, recruiters are still struggling to find people with the skills and experience their hiring managers are looking for. Partly this is driven by the commonly held assumption...
by Kevin Wheeler | Jan 3, 2011 | ERE Articles
John Smith began 2010 with the hope that hiring would ramp up slowly over the year and that he would be able to re-establish his crackerjack sourcing team that was eliminated in 2009. He believed that sourcing passive candidatesoff the Internet would provide enough...
by Kevin Wheeler | Jan 3, 2011 | 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...
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