Coaching Gen Y Employees: What to Do When They Think They’re Ready to Advance … and You Don’t

Do you have Gen Y, or Millennial, employees who, in your opinion, think they are more proficient than they are or think they should advance faster than you believe is realistic? If so, join the club. This is one of the biggest frustrations I hear from managers. While it may be frustrating, how... [Read more]

How to Be Sure Your Job Req Attracts Anyone and Everyone

click to enlarge One of the things that frustrated me when I was a recruiter was a poorly written job description. This was just one of many puzzle pieces that provided the impetus for me to leave recruiting and work on aligning talent strategy with corporate strategy. For those of you who... [Read more]

Why You Must Kick the Sourcing Habit

As many of you know — I announced it at the ERE Expo in San Diego — I’ve decided to bring recruiting back to recruiting. This is my new old mission. Somehow this has been lost in the past few years when overall candidate supply exceeded demand. Hiring top talent is not the same as finding top talent.... [Read more]

Know What Your Recruiting Competitors Are Up to

It blows my mind how the subject and function of competitive intelligence falls by the wayside in most HR/recruiting departments. Just what exactly is competitive intelligence and what is it used for? Let’s start first by defining it: Definition: the action of defining, gathering, analyzing, and distributing... [Read more]

Is Your Organization Optimized? 8 Questions to Ask Yourself

Our country has gone from conversations about how to recruit and retain quality employees in a market with low unemployment just a few short years ago to conversations about how to find a job in a market with record unemployment numbers. What’s missing is the most important conversation, regardless... [Read more]

You’ll Figure it Out

A holiday message … I’ve been thinking all year about something our accountant said when he visited us in February of this year to have us sign the final paperwork for our taxes. During our meeting Bob had been moaning about how our 2009 business was off so much over 2008 and things just seemed... [Read more]

Newly Aggressive EEOC Sues Over Credit Checks

With the U.S. beginning its fourth year of a sour economy that is taking its toll on consumer credit scores, the EEOC signaled this week that it is taking a hard look at employers who use credit checks as a screening tool. Kaplan Higher Education Corp. was sued Tuesday by the Equal Employment Opportunity... [Read more]

Serious Recruiting Games: 6 Tips for Using Games and Simulations for Recruiting Success

Maybe all you need for an attraction and sourcing strategy is a good game. The U.S. Army was one of the first organizations to pioneer video games for attracting potential recruits. A couple of years ago the Army launched its highly successful recruiting game called America’s Army, which has significantly... [Read more]

Is LinkedIn Becoming a 21st Century Job Board?

LinkedIn introduced a resume building tool a while ago that, even though it’s slick, simple to use, and creates attractive resumes, would be otherwise unremarkable. Except that it’s LinkedIn offering it. And it’s a step better than what Monster and CareerBuilder offer. And, more to... [Read more]

At Cisco, Many Top Recruits Are Already on the Payroll

Cisco Systems has been quietly doubling up on its recruiting efforts, but with a twist: the target market is made up of the company’s own employees. In particular, it has been making it easier for employees to get promoted into different departments, rather than first moving laterally from one... [Read more]

What’s Wrong With Reference Checking? Pretty Much Everything (Part 2)

This article addresses five questions raised in response to Part 1 of this series published last week. It addresses the best ways to assess candidate performance pre-hire and when to use references. Question 1 — What are the most accurate indicators of past, current and future performance? Finding... [Read more]

Change Your Hiring Manager’s POV to Eliminate 50% of All Hiring Errors and Have a Happy Holiday Season

I have a brilliant nephew — Harvard grad, etc., — who is, shall we say, a bit left of center. He has an executive position in the California state government, which is enough to further pinpoint his political persuasion. While I love him dearly, during the holiday season we have some rather... [Read more]

10 Ways To Recalibrate Your Recruiting Process And Technology

In the latest installment of our ongoing webinar series we covered ten steps you can start making today in order to prepare fro the new year. Elaine Orler joined our program once again to expand on these steps to improve your workplace and technology for a better performance in 2011. For more podcasts,... [Read more]

A Nagging Question: What Happens if Facebook Decides to Shut You Down?

I had just finished a presentation at ERE and was walking though the event reception area when a voice from behind me asked “what happens if Facebook decides to shut you down?” I turned to see who had asked such a bold question. I recognized the inquiring voice to be John Sumser. I thought to myself:... [Read more]

A New Year’s Resolution: Stop Talking Nice About Your Company …

(…and start asking questions instead). Why? Simply stated: Because people need to know they’ve been heard and understood. Today’s top sales performers know that it’s more important to understand than to persuade. So what does this have to do with recruiting? Good question. Perhaps you can... [Read more]

But That’s Not My Job: the Benefits of Owning Your Own Business

Any small business can fail. A small business that has been in existence for more than five years has a sizable advantage over a business that you start yourself if you can afford to purchase it. Most people can’t. In lieu of that route there are ways to start your own business that don’t require... [Read more]

New Tool Ranks Job Listings Using Social Media Data

Employee referrals and social media were already merging more quickly than Brangelina. A new tool from Bernard Hodes aims to make referrals and social media more tightly knit, and more personalized. Hodes started thinking about all this at the end of 2008, going into the beginning of 2009. It has spent... [Read more]

Glassdoor Lists the Best (Yes, Really!) Places to Work

From a site best known as the home of the disgruntled worker comes “The 50 Best Places to Work” list. It’s true. It’s true. Glassdoor actually has loads of reviewers who like where they work, are happy there, and are telling the world about it. Their favorite employer? Facebook... [Read more]

What’s Hot in IT

As Yahoo prepares to lay people off, it’s looking like at least the techies in that crowd will find a slightly improving job market. New surveys, one from Dice and the other from TEKsystems, indicate that it’s getting a little tougher to fill technical jobs. Let’s start with what Dice... [Read more]

Is This Next Adler Prediction as Far Off as My Last Few?

I predict that the market is finally heating up. Of course, I’ve been wrong for the past few years, so you might want to take the next few ideas on how to get ready for 2011 with a grain of salt. Or not. The market for top talent is definitely heating up, and you need to take some serious steps to... [Read more]

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