How many of your qualified candidates are being rejected for these questionable reasons? Article Descriptors| Recruiting /rejection factors – How to – 4 min read It’s no secret that most hiring processes suffer because they are mostly intuitive and use assessment factors that don’t predict new hires’ on-the-job performance. As …
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The Business Case For Hiring The Employed (That’s not a typo)
Which makes more sense, recruiting the unemployed 4% or the gigantic pool that already has a job (unfortunately, most get it bass-ackwards)? Fortunately, employed talent won’t be hard to recruit because today, an astounding 96% of all workers are looking for a new job. So, I promise that after closely examining …
Read More »Hire More Employed Candidates… By Raising Doubts About Their Current Job (The power of “doubt raising”)
Employed candidates are gold but hard to sell unless you raise new doubts about their current job. Descriptors| Recruiting /Selling The Employed – Increasing Doubts – How To – 8 min Yes, Doubts Do Change Job Acceptance Decisions I hope that everyone realizes this. Among your currently employed candidates, doubts …
Read More »Everyone Jokes About HR… These Fast-Acting Strategic Steps Will Change That
There are 20.5 million “jokes about HR,” double those in accounting and millions more than CEO’s. Don’t you wish HR could stop them? Article Descriptors| Strategic Steps/Fast-Acting – List Of Five – 5 Min Read Don’t Complain… Act Yes, since Dilbert began providing readers with jokes about HR, it has …
Read More »Bad HR Can Cost You Billions, Just Ask Apple (How ignored HR process vulnerabilities can lead to business catastrophes)
Retention and recruiting were factors in the downfall of Apple’s $10 billion EV car project! Boeing’s missing door catastrophe was also caused by overlooked HR vulnerabilities. Article Descriptors | Another case of bad HR – Apple’s EV failure – Identifying HR vulnerabilities – 6-minute read Here We Go Again, First …
Read More »Improve Hiring… With These Top No-Cost, Offer Acceptance Boosters (The complete guide for getting your offers accepted)
The most damaging part is when, at the end of hiring, your top candidate surprises you with a no answer. Article descriptors| Recruiting /Offer acceptance – How to actions – 6 min scan Realize That… Offer Acceptance Is A High-Impact Step It’s no longer okay to just stand by. Today, …
Read More »Bad HR Can Cost You Billions, Just Ask Boeing – Why HR Needs To Embrace Risk Management
Boeing is suffering an estimated $45 billion loss from a single employee error. So, add reducing errors to HR’s responsibilities, or this could happen to you. A Think Piece – Urging HR to develop a risk management process that focuses on reducing employee errors. Before you assume that employee errors …
Read More »Need Exceptional Talent? Recruit Contest And Award Winners (Competition reveals exceptional talent)
Contests build your employer brand, attract top-tier talent, improve assessment, and yield solutions. The problem solvers who win these recruiting-related competitions are some of the most impactful of all hires. Article Descriptors| Recruiting /Sourcing – Contests to attract/assess – How to – 7 min. read What exactly is “contest recruiting/sourcing?” …
Read More »This “Forever” Hiring Shortage… Will Forever Hurt Your Business Results (Shifting to Competitive Advantage Recruiting)
The recent Post-COVID hiring shortage wasn’t temporary, instead, it’s a permanent business condition. So why isn’t it a standard corporate practice to measure (and respond to) the current level of recruiting competition in your industry? Descriptors| Recruiting / Hiring shortages – Future of recruiting components – 5 min read In …
Read More »Discover Exceptional Candidates – Scan Resumes For These Talent Indicators
Most resume scans are shallow, so they pass over factors that reveal if a candidate is exceptional. Descriptors | Recruiting/Resume screening – Talent indicators – How-to – 5 min read Why Most Resume Scanning Approaches Fail To Identify Exceptional Candidates Most traditional resume-scanning processes come up short. They are designed …
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