by Kevin Wheeler | Sep 9, 2010 | ERE Articles
I see many recruiting functions wavering back and forth between centralized, decentralized, and some hybrid forms of organization. Recently this has been made worse by the increased number of virtual, contract, and part-time recruiters and the global spread of...
by Kevin Wheeler | Aug 26, 2010 | ERE Articles
Labor Day in the U.S. is almost here. Many other countries also celebrate a labor day, which has always seemed an unusual event to me. We didn’t celebrate such a day at all until Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City. Interestingly, this is a date that...
by Kevin Wheeler | Aug 12, 2010 | ERE Articles
It’s almost back-to-school time, and many of you are getting ready to hit the campus circuit (something I’ll talk much more about at 4 p.m. on October 27, in Florida). If you are like most recruiters I know, you will be — unfortunately — falling into the routine of...
by Kevin Wheeler | Aug 4, 2010 | ERE Articles
There is a common language used by top-level managers in every company. It is a language centered on business concepts and understanding a handful of concepts. For example, CEOs instinctively move toward the action that will maximize profits and minimize costs or...
by Kevin Wheeler | Jul 21, 2010 | ERE Articles
As a recruiter, how would you describe the culture at Apple, Microsoft, AT&T, or at your own organization? Being able to distill the essence of an organization’s culture into a few well-thought-out adjectives is worth a lot. Sometimes I ask a wide variety of...
by Kevin Wheeler | Jul 8, 2010 | ERE Articles
How much should we let chance and circumstances define who we hire, rather than continue to invest time in tough screening and many interviews? In the simplest terms, should (and maybe even does?) randomness play a large role in selection? Is it better to have a...
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