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The Door Is Opening and People Are Leaving
There is going to be an exodus of workers soon from businesses all across the U.S. It seems that for all the work recruiters do at the front end, organizations are undoing it at the backend. Frustrated employees are seeking new opportunities in record numbers, but if you are prepared,… Continue reading
4 Ways to Learn if Candidates Fit Your Culture
Have you ever hired that dream candidate who met every criteria of the position, was courted by the hiring manager, and who negotiated that huge sign-on bonus and then crashed and burned within a few months?
There are hundreds of stories like this. Candidates with great education, experience, and who… Continue reading
Why People Leave Organizations
Whether the economy is strong or weak, no matter the time of year, and no matter how much they are paid, many of our best employees decide to leave. The question we all grapple with is why.
Why do people stay at a company or leave? What motivates such behavior,… Continue reading
Women Are Shifting the Talent Landscape: Strategies to Successfully Recruiting Them
Women have become the new workforce. There are now slightly more women workers than men, given the recession and the shrinking of the manufacturing and construction industries. They have less unemployment: In January of this year the unemployment rate for men was 8.8 percent, yet for women only 7.9 percent.… Continue reading
Adapt & Adopt Technology Faster: Opportunity Calls
Technology forces forward movement. It makes us figure out what could be more meaningful or useful for people to do. Rather than dig ditches and plow fields by hand, we have machinery that makes that work faster and safer and frees individuals up to do work that machines cannot. Rather… Continue reading
4 Common Assumptions Challenged
There are a handful of beliefs within most professions that need to be examined from time to time for validity and accuracy. The medical profession believed for years that ulcers were caused by stress and certain foods. It took a modestly qualified medical researcher in Australia to prove that they… Continue reading
4 Traits That Separate a Great Recruiter From a Good One
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 limits the number of people… Continue reading
The Last Frontier: Can We Measure and Recruit for Success?
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, quantitatively, the value or contribution of people who… Continue reading
Do We Need Internal Recruiting at All?
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 efficiently and continue to innovate and stay ahead… Continue reading
Should You Outsource Your Sourcing? 5 Tips for Success
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 that these skilled and experienced… Continue reading