In today’s incredibly tight labor market, it’s harder than ever to attract top notch talent. The majority of candidates are interviewing with (and receiving offers) from multiple companies. Counter-offers are more common, time to hire is increasing, and offer acceptance…
Hiring Process
Don’t Let Them Make Bad Hires
As an organization that’s handled hundreds of HR situations for small businesses over the years, we’ve seen our fair share of hirings, firings, and everything between. Often, businesses reach out to us for help when they’ve just been through or…
Holiday Hiring: Do You Really Know Who’s Minding the Till?
As retailers stare down the 2018 holiday shopping season, they’re boosting their workforces with legions of temporary employees to help out during the most hectic time of the year. But low unemployment rates – which have hovered around 4% all…
What You Need to Watch For In Continuous Background Screening
Most companies perform background checks on employees at the outset as part of the application / new hire process. A number of background check companies are now offering “continuous screening” or re-screening services as a risk management tool where background…
An Interview Question to Jump Start Engagement
I recently read an online article with this advice to all job-seekers preparing for an interview: “If the prospective employer doesn’t give you a chance to ask questions, at the end of the interview, ask if you may ask one…
How to Hire for Soft Skills
In April, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner went on CNBC and discussed new skills gap data LinkedIn published on the current state of the job market. In the interview, Weiner detailed the most in-demand skills for today’s workforce. Unsurprisingly, digital skills…
You Won’t Get It If You Don’t Ask
Carol Sankar’s DisruptHR talk may be focused mostly at women professionals, but what she has to say about your first job is good advice for everyone: Ask for what you want. Don’t do what she did when she was offered…
Signs That You Aced Your Job Interview – So Now You Can Relax
The job search has been ranked #3 as the most stressful thing in life. The interviews are typically the most stressful step in job searching. Moreover, interview stress is often worse during the long delay between the end of the…
10 Questions to Help You Know If the Candidate Will Fit In
Are you hiring based on culture fit in addition to skills, experience, and background? If you’re not, you should be. Culture fit is one of the most significant factors in the success of new hires. According to the Harvard Business Review,…
3 Simple Steps to Avoid Fighting With Hiring Managers Over Pay
Even though they are our daily bread and butter, recruiting and hiring remain very inefficient and time consuming processes. Because they take so much of our time and involve so many people, just the idea of making improvements feels stressful….
Does Technology Have an Answer to Quality of Candidates Complaints?
Quality of hire is the most important and most difficult metric in talent acquisition. Talent Tech Labs, a New York based incubator, introduced me to Talenytics, a software vendor that focuses on quality of hire. For most recruiters the presenting…
‘Trust But Verify’: Good Advice As More Resumes Show Misrepresentations
We don’t mean to alarm you but it’s highly likely your company has hired someone who has falsified their resume. Don’t believe us? Research suggests that more than 50% of people have lied on their CV at some stage and…
Offender Recidivism Is HR’s Problem
Hire an ex-con? Absolutely. “A record is only one data point,” says Rustin Tonn, exhorting his DisruptHR audience in Denver to, “Hire now. And quite pretending we don’t have responsibility.” Tonn, regional HR manager in Denver with Newgistics, doesn’t so much…
Hiring Wisdom: Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Work Here
Note: The following are selections from the Humetrics blog. Employee experience Regular readers here will know I’m always touting employee stay conversations because they create high levels of employee engagement and are a powerful retention tool. If you haven’t bought…
With So Many Turndowns, Here’s What You Need to Convince Talent to Relocate Overseas
For some, it might seem crazy: offering an employee the chance to move overseas, only to have them turn it down. After all, it’s a move many people crave; one of the most thrilling opportunities that a brand can offer…
Here’s How to Make Sure You Don’t Hire a Toxic Worker
Nobody intends to hire the whiner, the troublemaker, or the sharp-tongued twit that ticks off customers and drives coworkers crazy. But somehow a few seem to work their way through the system and get hired, managing to lower the morale…
Hiring Wisdom: Hard Questions Make For Better Hires
Although impolite, rude, and bullying social media behavior grab the headlines, ours is still a basically polite society. That’s why most of us rely on our pre-employment paperwork to ask job applicants the tough questions about drugs and honesty. Then we compound…
Diversity, Interviewing, Analytics and AI are the Top Global Recruiting Trends
Each year, over the past few years, I look forward to reviewing LinkedIn’s annual recruiting trends report. The 2018 version is no different! It’s 60 pages of insight and case studies, and really digs into the hottest trends in recruiting…
Hiring Insights From a CEO Who Places Non-Traditional Workers
Parallel Travel is a rapidly-growing San Francisco Bay Area startup that works with talented local artists across the U.S. to design unique experiences at vacation rentals. It’s an exciting place to work, with the frenzied nature of startup life and…
How to Use Relocation to Win the War For Talent
In the past couple of years, we’ve been able to count on at least one piece of good news each month: steadily dropping unemployment rates. But a low unemployment rate can be a double-edged sword if you’re a recruiter or…