Solving Talent Scarcity with Better Design

Solving Talent Scarcity with Better DesignCorporate recruiting has evolved over many decades and is a jumble of habits, ideas, assumptions, and practices. There has been little effort spent to test them for their validity or efficiency.If we believe, as I do, that...

Team-Based Hiring

Team-Based HiringThe matching process is what recruiting is all about, but no one seems to have the answer to how we do it well. Maybe team-based hiring is at least part of the answer.Recruiting is generally thought of as something one person does for another person...

The Proper use of Technology in Talent Acquisition

The Proper use of Techology in Talent AcquistionAutomation for the sake of automation is of no value. To be useful, a tool has to solve a real problem or make some aspect of work easier, faster, or of higher quality than it was without the tool.As we see more and more...

Future of Talent Institute Weekly – Issue #44

What Do You Tell Your Child to Major In?Is what we are preaching to young people about their education good advice? I have a feeling it may be crap.Every day I hear someone saying that the future is all about science, technology, engineering, or math – the STEM...

What Will This Decade Bring to the Talent World?

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...

The Need for a People Strategy

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...