Trying to recruit top talent with a single technique is like trying to win a football game entirely by passing or trying to win the popular reality show, The Voice, by singing the same song over and over again. It’s possible to succeed, but the odds are definitely not in your favor. The only way …
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Overlooked Recruiting Strategy For Top Talent
Too many employers these days are wearing rose-tinted glasses. They think their employment brand is what they say about their values, benefits, and work experience. It isn’t. If you look at an organization through the critical lens of top talent, an organization’s brand isn’t words, it’s deeds. Now, don’t get me wrong. Having a written …
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What Recruiters Must Know About Passive Job Seekers
There is a lot of talk about game changers in sports—the individuals who, more often than not, spell the difference between victory and defeat. They are every team’s dream player and, in every other facet of the economy, they are every hospitality employer’s dream new hire. The goal of recruiting, therefore, should be to recruit …
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The One True Source Of Hire
A director of recruiting for a major employer made a bold statement the other day. She said, “I don’t care about the source of hire.” Then, she went on to explain. First, it’s important to understand the context of her statement. While there are many dynamics shaping today’s job market, three are of particular importance …
Have You Considered a Candidate’s Uncertainty Factor?
Even top performers are worried these days. Thanks to the drumbeat of news stories about business miscalculations, facility relocations, and corporate mergers and acquisitions – all of which produce layoffs – they too fear they will end up out on the bricks. As a result, uncertainty has now become as important a recruiting factor as …
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One Social Recruiting Strategy Recruiters Often Overlook
Amidst all the breathless commentary about commercial social media sites, there’s another online social environment that’s being overlooked by many recruiters. It’s the most talent-rich resource on the Web, yet it hardly ever gets mentioned at recruiting conferences or in recruiting publications. The result is best described as LockedOut – the social recruiting strategy that …
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5 factors that motivate passive professionals to apply
Given the workload of a recruiter these days, few have the time to craft a brand new ad for each and every job they post on the web. And even when a posting gets the attention it deserves, all too often it includes copy invented in the 1950s. The ad will highlight the “requirements and …
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Strategic Recruiting with Big Data
Let’s be honest. Hiring managers are not our customers. At best, they are our allies, and at worst, they are our enemies. They hold the power to help or hinder our day-to-day work. But, our customers – the people who determine whether or not we’re successful – are another group altogether. Recruiters have a fiduciary …
Recruiting Analytics: How Do You Measure Up?
Economics has been called the dismal science. Recruiting analytics should be called miserable math. You have to use such metrics, but it’s painful to do so. What makes the experience so unpleasant? It’s complicated. Performance data can be analyzed in many different ways, and that’s exactly what’s happening in recruiting today. There is no general …
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How to Optimize the Candidate Experience
Recruiting the best talent is an exercise in stimulating irrational behavior. Because most top performers are already employed, you have to persuade them to do something they don’t want to do – change. You must convince them to move from the devil they know (their current employer, boss, and commute) to the devil they don’t …