| How to Recruit Passive Candidates by Lou Adler - Jun, 2010 We’re now working on a major survey with LinkedIn on determining the percent of their 70mm+ network that is active, passive, or somewhere in-between. Recent data from the Recruiting Leadership Council1 indicates that for a broad sample of the U.S. workforce, 15-20% are very active and a... | |||
| Should the Recruiting Department Be Charged with Financial Malfeasance? by Lou Adler - May, 2010 Earlier this year I presented a financial model that demonstrated that on average, hiring a C+ person instead of a B+ person costs a company somewhere between 50 and 100% of the person’s annual compensation. This becomes a huge waste of resources if you do this more than once. For examp... | |||
| The Seven Secrets of Passive Candidate Recruiting by Lou Adler - May, 2010 Between 1978 and 2002, I personally made 457 placements. These represented a combination of retained and contingency searches ranging from professional staff to general management. In addition, I was actively involved in another 283 search assignments where I either got the retained assign... | |||
| Letting Go of RIF-ed Off Rage: Survival Stages & Strategies for Soon-to-Be Terminated Employees by Mark Gorkin - Apr, 2010 One way I know that the economy is still in trouble is by speaking topic requests: a) recently I wrote about an after-dinner presentation on “Letting Go” for a career transition support group; to be tactful, many folks were “in between” jobs and b) two weeks ago I led a program on managin... | |||
| Sourcing the 85 Percent Who Are Not Actively Looking by Lou Adler - Mar, 2010 If you follow these five steps you will find more top performers within hours: 1. Put the employee value proposition (EVP) in the ad title as a tagline. Here are two examples of before and after ads and the impact of this change. A hospital group in Northern California ran an ad for n... | |||
| Employers: Why Use a Recruiter In This Market? by Harry Urschel - Mar, 2010 Why use a recruiter when I’m getting plenty of resumes from my ads and job postings? In times of economic downturn companies often decide that one way to “save” money is by eliminating fees to recruiters when looking for new employees. Why shouldn’t they? After all, they post an ad o... | |||
| Like Trump: We All Get To Hire and Fire - Your Life Is Your Business by Dawn Lennon - Feb, 2010 There’s a lot of grousing out there about hiring. So when it’s our turn to hire, you’d think we’d be really good at it. After all, we’re hiring people all the time. Yes, hiring people to work for us. Our life is our business, remember? From the time we start living on our own, we’re ... | |||
| Be a Standout! by Rob Taub - Sep, 2009 These are not average times; and for that reason, companies are not looking for “average” people. That makes sense. So you need to be a “Standout”, and it may be easier than you think. Here, think about this: You go and get more education and additional credentials thinking “I’ll be m... | |||
| How to Work With a Recruiter by Leigh Moore - Jan, 2009 As a Career Coach who also does some recruiting, I have had many opportunities to explain to job seekers the role of a recruiter in the hiring process. Frequently applicants become frustrated in working with headhunters, recruiters or staffing agencies because they don’t understand how the... | |||
| The Arguments for Utilizing Behavioral Based Interviewing by Joe Giordano - Jun, 2008 How many times have you stated, “If I had only known that about Jane I never would have hired her?” If not you directly, how many times have you heard hiring managers use the same phrase? More times than not this or a similar phrase comes to light once a newly hired employee reacts to a si... | |||
| Employment Branding Study Results: Attract, Retain, Repel by Lizz Pellet - Dec, 2007 Attract, Retain, Repel, what the heck does that have to do with organizational culture and employment branding? That was my exact question back in July 2006. That is when I was first introduced to Rada Advertising, a recruitment advertising firm and we started to explore this very questi... | |||
| Going Green to Enhance Your Employment Branding Efforts by Lizz Pellet - Dec, 2007 So, you think creating an employment brand will help your organization attract, retain and repel employees – you are right on! Companies large and small are seeing a significant increase in the ROI of recruitment and retention programs by creating an employment brand. This one human reso... | |||
| If You Keep Doing What You've Been Doing You'll Keep Getting What You've Been Getting by Eva Jenkins - Dec, 2007 Trust is a key factor needed for effective leadership. The problem today is you can’t tell or even expect people to trust you. . .you must prove it first. In God we trust, but all others bring data - High performance work environments require a deep respect and trust in people. People... | |||
| The Top 10 Reasons to Choose Retained Search over Contingency Search by Art Eyzaguirre - Nov, 2007 Many people always ask me the question, “What is the difference between Retained and Contingency search?” Also, everyone wants to call me a "headhunter" but they really don't know what that means either. I will attempt to dispel some of the myths and clandestine attempts to keep the search... | |||
| The Top 10 Reasons to Hire an Executive Retained Search Firm by Art Eyzaguirre - Nov, 2007 Many companies today look to outside recruiting firms to fulfill their talent requirements. As Michael Dell of Dell computers says, "The ability to find and hire the right people can make or break your business. It's as simple as that." Having been involved with hundreds of downsizings an... | |||
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