How to Build a Crowdsourcing Program

How to Build a Crowdsourcing ProgramHard to find talent isn’t interested in submitting resumes or engaging with career sites – even in these pandemic times. These are busy people, still employed, deeply focused on a project or idea. Reaching them is not only...

Keys to Sustainable Technology Implementations

Keys to Sustainable Technology ImplementationsAll corporate functions receive shocks and change drivers – from the market, the economy, the pandemic, or from leadership. Why do some functions weather these shocks better than others? Why is it that many recruitment and...

The Power of Process

The Power of ProcessA few weeks ago, I wrote an article about whether internal TA remains relevant given technology and the growth of RPO. Each time I am asked to review a recruiting function, I find that their processes are a bigger problem than the technology or the...

Fooled By Our own Rationality

Fooled By Our own RationalityMany of us have read the book “Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell where he postulates that chance and “gut feel” may play a bigger role in our lives than we imagine. Another book, older and more rigorously researched, entitled “Fooled by...

Busting a Few Recruitment Myths

Busting a Few Recruitment MythsThere are a handful of assumptions and beliefs within most professions that need to be examined from time to time for validity and accuracy. Assumptions can be very dangerous when they are swallowed without critical thought or current...

What Will Tomorrow's Recruitment Look Like?

What Will Tomorrow’s Recruitment Look Like?The Coronavirus dominates our lives, economics look grim, hiring is at a standstill and budgets are frozen. What we need now is a perspective on the future of recruitment. As some said, “When things are good, they are...