Referrals in College Admissions Emphasize Selection versus Sourcing
The University equivalent of a recruiter is the college admissions officer who, like their corporate counterpart, has always had a secret weapon… referrals.There are two differences however: -...
View ArticleAnachronism: Out of Place. Out of Time. Out of Our Mind.
According to Wiki an Anachronism is an inconsistency in a chronological arrangement such as ‘time’. It’s the intentional use of older, often obsolete cultural artifacts which a general public might...
View ArticleEffective Recruiting Measures: Tackling Pipelines
A current animated conversation on Jeremy Shapiro's Measuring Human Capital group on Linkedin sparked some thoughts about what is worth measuring short and long-term in recruiting. I've always been a...
View ArticleSourceCon: Taking the Temperature of the Staffing Space
Sourcers, especially the hard-core practitioners of this specialty niche, are in demand again suggesting that ‘hard to fill’ openings are getting even harder to fill. The bi-annual ERE meeting known as...
View ArticleNew HRM American Standard: Cost Per Hire
The first [ever] HRM American National Standard, Cost-Per-Hire, was approved last month. It has evoked consternation among some, yawns among others and considerable scorn from those whose ideas about...
View ArticleWhich Are More Valuable: Internally or Externally Sourced Candidates?
The science of recruiting is years behind our peers in other disciplines, but when I see research like this journal article, "Paying More to Get Less: The Effects of External Hiring versus Internal...
View Article#SHRM12 Saturday First Impressions
Its easy to see why they call it HOTlanta when the 90 degree temperature seems to be the expected mean. Still, modern conveniences keep us cool most of the time and I doubt many sessions at HR's...
View Article"Our Employees Are Our Greatest Asset"
This [standard] cliché is repeated over and over by the world’s public employers in their most valuable marketing piece, their Annual Report. We know it’s BS. You know it’s BS…and so does everyone...
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Candidate Experience: A Movement in the Making
by Gerry Crispin, Elaine Orler, Ed Newman, Mark Stelzner, Jeremy Tipper, Sarah White Candidates care about how they are treated. Let’s say that again- with emphasis this time…Candidates care...
View ArticlePreface: SHRM Heading to South Africa to Study Evolution of Staffing and HR...
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has a best kept secret. For years it has been sending delegations of HR leaders to other countries to study how our profession is evolving. SHRM could...
View ArticleSuperstorms: Lessons Learned in the Aftermath
Three weeks after Sandy, life is getting back to normal…or is it. Walking the dog this weekend morning around a relatively unscathed block of homes in central NJ (miles from the shore) today, reminders...
View Article2013 - Back to the Future
We are avid fans of crystal-ball gazing and enjoy uncovering clues to the future.Despite our penchant for guessing what is around the corner however, it is actually more interesting (and worthwhile)...
View ArticleGender does matter in selection apparently...if you are married
Under the subject of halo effect - something that recruiters and hiring managers are supposedly trained to assiduously avoid (lest they be unconsciously biased by a non-performance related...
View ArticleWill You Still Force Fit Your Hires Into A Single Category in 2013?
If there is one thing Mark and I have learned over the last decade writing our Source of Hire whitepapers, it’s that the “sources” employers choose to attribute their hires to are no longer independent...
View ArticleCandidate Experience Awards: 2013 Campaign is Open Until June 30
A reminder that less than a month is left to register and apply for the 2013 CandidateExperience Awards.The is an industry-wide, 'big data' effort to better define, measure and bench US and UK...
View ArticleMaybe 'Millennials' do want to stay. We just don’t give them reasons to do so.
China Gorman offered some insights, Gen Y’s Self-Fulfilling Prophecy from data collected and published recently by Accenture, 2013 College Graduate Employment Survey Findings. China’s point that new...
View ArticleAdvice to SHRM: Drop Barriers between members and non-members
Publicly offering anyone unsolicited advice is a bit presumptuous (although it can easily be ignored). Still, it is a bit awkward and I prefer to call an individual directly when suggesting how they...
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When We Connect the 'Global Integration' Dots, Recruiters Risk Being Defined...
The hiring process has no minimum acceptable (or unacceptable) standard of practice. Anything goes and many recruiters prefer it that way. Perhaps intuitively we know that people who think of...
View ArticleCollege Students Building e-Portfolios: For Self-Awareness Apparently
In another sign that job seekers and employers are disconnected from one another, the Wall Street Journal noted in an article earlier this month, Giant Resumes Fail to Impress, that"more universities...
View ArticleThe Good Jobs Strategy: An Essential Read for 2014, Rethinking Retail
Peter Cappelli, Wharton’s pre-eminent professor of management dissected Zeynep Ton’s, The Good Jobs Strategy, in his monthly column for HR Executive Magazine.What makes this work important beyond the...
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NET Candidate Experience Score Part I: Measuring Employer Brand From...
Apparently, asking your customers a direct question: “How likely are you to recommend our company/product/service to your friends and colleagues?” is a pretty solid indicator of your firm’s [Brand]...
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Back To the Future
We were asked to predict the future. We declined. It is too easy. Everything is possible when you are never held accountable. Instead, we took a brief step backward to see how the results we produce...
View ArticleThe Real Gap in Creating a World Class ERP is Not Telling Your Candidates...
A quick search of “Employee Referral Programs” on Google will produce 81,300 results. Everyone it seems has written an article or two or three about the importance, the value and the ‘how to’ of ERPs...
View ArticleCandidates are NOT Customers...Not Yet.
There are important differences between Customers and Candidates. Companies generally don’t choose their customers…at least not individually. If they did, you might find themselves facing a class...
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Are Cover Letters Dead or Just Following Us Around?
Recently more than one recruiting leader asked whether their peers were still using Cover Letters or, if they had become like our dictionary perception of an appendix, a "useless [recruiting] remnant...
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