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A few weeks ago John Sullivan wrote an article citing a few disturbing recruiting numbers: 70% of participants are dissatisfied with the hiring process; 46% of new hires turned over within the first year (50% for new executives); and top producers produce 40-67% more than others. Sullivan recommended a variety of solutions. (Read More)
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Last week I introduced this series by stating that a majority of social recruiting initiatives currently in progress in organizations around the world would fail primarily because they relied solely on the limited resources of the recruiting function to establish visibility online, engage an audience, and service that audie (Read More)
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Erin Peterson joined us to discuss how to improve a candidate’s experience during the hiring process and the positive impact it can have on your hires and employment brand. Watch it here!. (Read More)
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With the recruiting industry stuck deep in the recession rut, it’s no surprise that companies are looking to diversify.The RightThing, an RPO, acquired AIRS, a technology and training firm, in 2008. About the same time, CareerBuilder launched Personified, a recruitment consulting and outsourcing business. Two months ago, re (Read More)
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In the wake of ERE’s Social Recruiting Summit Monday comes a contest to expand job seeker use of Twitter, while another quarter counsels caution in how job seekers use social media, but says it’s a must for 21st-century workers.TweetMyJobs, one of the first job distribution services to use Twitter, is now using the service (Read More)
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Over the past several months I’ve been advocating a strategic view of the recruiting function based on quality of hire as the metric of choice. In case you missed any of the missives, here’s a quick summary of what some would contend are blasphemous repudiations of the recruiting department of yesteryear.Cost per hire is a (Read More)
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You won’t read it in the newspaper, but it’s a fact that the New York Yankees were the world champions of recruiting long before they were declared the world champions of Major League Baseball.The Yankees are perennial winners (many call them a dynasty) not because of their superior equipment, IT processes, or their financi (Read More)
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What do you get when you search your name online?Aw, come on. Of course you’ve looked yourself up on the Internet. Almost half of all Internet users did in 2007. The latest survey puts the number at 59 percent.And if you really, really haven’t then you may want to retake recruiting 101.Just as companies no longer are master (Read More)
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How do you convince cynical executives to fund a social network recruiting effort?It’s hard to argue against the statement that social networking (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) is an extremely hot topic in business. But I have yet to find a single CFO or senior executive willing to fully fund a comprehensive social netw (Read More)
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In all the brouhaha about great new sourcing initiatives and Web 2.0 tools, how much have your recruiters and hiring managers improved their ability to hire great people, not average people?In my opinion, we’ve downplayed what it really takes to be successful in our profession — recruiting, counseling, and closing top peopl (Read More)
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Dan Kilgore and Jeremy Eskenazi returned to the show to give us an update on trends and predictions we had discussed at the beginning of the year. We took a look at how the past few months have played out, how the trends have changed, and what we can expect for 2010.
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Over the past few months I’ve been describing a new approach for determining quality of hire, and using changes in this to justify any new expenditures on an ROI basis. While the methodology is pretty slick, the pushback is coming not from the process, but from the idea that HR/recruiting is responsible for quality of hire (Read More)
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I’m so excited to chair the upcoming #socialrecruiting summit. If you are like me, you are telling your friends and colleagues about the upcoming event in NYC. If you are like me, you have to stop and explain exactly what social recruiting means in the talent management world.Michael Specht wrote a great post, several month (Read More)
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Top-notch job candidates are tired of the recruiting mess we have created in the U.S. I would guess that well over half of all recruiting functions are dysfunctional. By that I mean they have no standard process for dealing with candidates, treat some candidates much differently than others, respond sporadically to requests (Read More)
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Steven Toole doesn’t seem as high on social media recruiting as we are. But he is upbeat about employment, saying that a “perfect storm” is brewing for recruiters in 18-24 months as Americans begin a game of job-hopping musical chairs.Below, Toole talks about these job-market trends, and the upcoming need for a lot of recru (Read More)