According to a Boston Consulting Group study, the ability to deliver on recruiting has a larger impact on revenue growth than all other HR areas, including onboarding and retaining new hires, managing talent, and developing leadership. Yet despite the importance…
Corporate Recruiting
AI Is the Buzz, But Your Old Tools Might Be Just Fine
One of the great promises of AI in recruitment is automatically screening candidates. The hope is that we’ll just hand off the job specs to a computer, it will screen the resumes, do some automated interviewing with a chatbot, and…
The War for Talent Is About to Go Nuclear. Here’s Why and What You Can Do
If you are a reader of inspirational management books, an HR professional, or basically have ever been an employee at just about any company anywhere, you’ve heard the platitudes: Our people are our greatest asset. We believe that talent is…
Google Launches a Powerful New ATS For SMBs
On the heels of its May announcement of a powerful job search tool — Google for Jobs — the company today publicly released an ATS designed for small- and mid-sized businesses. Google Hire integrates with its widely-used G Suite, enabling…
The Most Important Question You’ll Ever Ask a Hiring Manager
How are those hiring manager “intake” meetings going? You know, those meetings you have with a hiring manager every single time they have an opening. You sit down with your hiring manager, face-to-face, and ask them a page full of…
How to Use Data to Make Better Hires
There has been a lot of buzz around the use of people analytics, but the evidence for its impact has been sparse. Now, though, we have emerging evidence that people analytics can successfully be applied to improve hiring. This new…
Read This Before You Buy a Recruitment Marketing Platform
“Over 70% of companies are planning to invest in solutions with recruitment marketing capabilities over the next 12 months.” This is one of the opening observations in Aptitude Research’s Recruitment Marketing Index 2017, a comprehensive review of the world of…
To CEOs and CHROs: This Is What You Need to do If Talent Really Is a Priority
Dear CEO and CHRO, After years of reading those McKinsey and Gartner ‘what are the CEO’s priorities’ survey results, I felt I needed to send you this note. Chances are, you may have also read and possibly participated in those surveys…
Improving Employee Engagement is Good for Recruiting
So far this year, the job market favors the applicant. Though the March numbers were well down, so far this year the Bureau of Labor Statistics says more than half a million jobs have been created. This surge, which extends…
Flexibility Is More Important to Employees Than Almost Anything
With so much of our lives spent working, progressive organizations try to make the time there more comfortable. Happy employees are more productive, creative and stay in their jobs longer. In this candidate driven job market, employers have to find…
TA Grades: Only 4% of Fortune 500 Get An A
A recent SmashFly publication, the SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Report Card for the 2016 Fortune 500, came across my desk a while back. If you’re involved at all in recruiting talent, you’ll find it interesting. It’s easy to assume that the…
Moving Past Culture Fit to “Culture Add”
There is so much out there about cultural fit. And it does have its place. We all want that perfect candidate. The one that can live up to all the clichéd buzz words — “hit the ground running,” “add value,”…
How a CRM Can Help You Hire Faster and Better
Today’s labor market has become candidate-driven. With multiple job opportunities to choose from and easy access to information about companies and their employment brand, candidates act more and more like consumers. At the same time, there’s a strong demand for…
The Hiring Secrets of Top CEOs
Every company, especially a large one, makes every effort to recruit the cream of the crop. However, even a skilled sourcer will experience problems hunting for the right applicant with whom the company will achieve short-term and long-term goals. Sometimes…
Too Many Tools Are Killing Your Recruiting Effort
You’ve heard of this concept of the inverted-u curve, right? It’s fairly straightforward. In the beginning, you have nothing or very little. As you increase the resources you begin to become more effective. Eventually, as you add more resources you’ll…
3 Questions to Keep Your Recruiting Aligned With the Business
As a business leader, you know who makes your company run. (Hint: your employees.) A study by SHRM shows that 95% of recruiters expect recruiting to be as or more challenging next year. Everyone wants to hire and retain the…
HR Tech 2015: Now Everybody Wants to be the “Uber of Recruitment”
Apparently, the new marketing message for Talent Acquisition technology that I’m seeing here at the HR Tech Conference in Las Vegas is to call yourself the “Uber of Recruitment” I have had six different companies actually use this phrase to explain what their…
CareerBuilder Forecasts Strong Hiring Trend For Remainder of 2015
Job growth may have slowed in August and September, and staffing’s outlook is less robust than it has been, but CareerBuilder says this fourth quarter could see some of the strongest hiring since 2006. Its quarterly hiring forecast says 34 percent of U.S. employers plan…
When it Comes to Diversity, Just Focus on Talent and NOT Superficial Assumptions
“We have 25 different nationalities in this building.” “Throughout the MENA [Middle East and North Africa] we have 47 different nationalities. We are proud to say that we are like the U.N. All nationalities, numerous countries but mostly one of…