Leaders: How Many Candidates Do You Really Need?

Oct 16, 2019 | Hiring

Finding the perfect candidate for your open position can feel like pulling teeth – especially during a record-breaking labor shortage.  As a business leader or manager, you don’t want to settle for anything less than the best. You know that a bad hire can drag down...

Job Targets: A New Way to Select Candidates

Jul 19, 2019 | Hiring

If you’ve ever had to decide about a new hire, you know how difficult these choices can be. Picking the right candidate from a short-list can feel like reading tea leaves or trying to predict the future.  And odds are, the situation is even worse than you think....

Amazon’s Pay to Quit Program is Better (And Worse) for HR Than You Think

May 24, 2019 | Company Culture, Hiring, Human Resources, Recruiting, Sourcing, Talent Optimization

Did you know that Amazon offers a “pay to quit” program? In short, they will pay employees $10,000 and three month’s salary to quit the company and start a package-delivery business. With an earlier program, Amazon offered employees $5,000 just to quit – no...

Resumes Are Dying – And That’s Okay

Apr 9, 2019 | Hiring, Talent Optimization

Resumes are dying Did you know that the average recruiter spends about six seconds reviewing each resume? Yikes. If you’ve worked in recruiting or talent acquisition, this should come as no surprise. The average job opening receives as many as 250 applicants, so it...

4 Scientific Reasons Why Your Mandatory Diversity Training Will Fail

Jun 26, 2018 | Hiring

The average corporate diversity training program will likely fail in a year or two. If you’re in the process of developing one, stop. Let me start from the beginning. Corporate America, specifically the financial sector, amped up diversity training programs in the...

5 Quick Questions to Determine a Candidate’s Fit

Feb 14, 2018 | Hiring, Recruiting

From the get-go, it’s easy for recruiters to overlook qualified candidates. While resumes are a great starting point, recruiters have to pinpoint specific job seekers who meet the requirements of a role but aren’t a solid fit for the client. Ask these questions...

5 Common Interview Biases & How to Avoid Them

Oct 5, 2017 | Hiring

When humans engage in any type of social interaction, it’s easy to inject unconscious biases into the equation. And since an interview is most definitely a social exchange, it paves the way for an interviewer bias to negatively influence the outcome of a...

10 Ingredients to Create the Best Interview Experience

Oct 1, 2017 | Hiring

Important fact coming at you: 92% of U.S. adults have anxiety in anticipation of job interviews. Candidates are less likely to act like themselves and more likely to sabotage themselves when anxiety overtakes them. Whoever you are (e.g., recruiter, hiring manager, HR...

3 Communication Goals for Recruiters & Hiring Managers in 2017

Jan 5, 2017 | Hiring, Recruiting

Those who have been in the field long enough are aware of the stereotypes: the paper-pushing recruiter or the purple squirrel-hunting hiring manager. While recruiters and hiring managers share the same goals, their methodologies cause quite a bit of friction and...

The Well-Rounded Employee: How to Attract & Retain All-Stars

Dec 9, 2016 | Company Culture, Hiring, Recruiting

Hiring the wrong employee is one of the most expensive mistakes that an employer can make. Conversely, well-rounded employees make it easy to achieve your business goals. Many companies fail to identify, recruit, and hire top talent on a regular basis. In order to...