I’ve spent over 25 years in human capital management and I’ve gotten 10 certifications in the space. Through the use and study of various assessments and … Read more
Hire For a Mission, Not a Job
“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in the event of … Read more
5 Recruiters Share Their Ideas For Hiring the Best
It is well known that the unemployment rate is at a record low and the economy is healthy. While smart business leaders are focusing on growth due to these … Read more
‘Entry-Level, Experience Required’: Seriously?
For recent college graduates, nothing is more frustrating than applying for entry-level jobs that require experience. With degrees in hand, an eagerness to … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Is Credential Creep Strangling Your Hiring?
Every organization wants to hire top performers on a consistent basis. Unfortunately, this doesn’t happen very often. In fact, in most cases, … Read more
Only Hardworkers With a BMI Under 25 May Read This
No overtime claim. Do whatever your manager asks you to do. Report to Manager STRICTLY FOR HARDWORKING PROGRAMMER ONLY !!!!!! If you are not please do not … Read more
Make Your Next Job Ad a Game
You can create a job ad in many different media. Traditional job advertisements were text. An alternative approach is to lead with an image (there is a … Read more
You Need to Stop Hiring Only Elk; Hire Some Wolves
From wolves in Yellowstone to wolves in your company, Ryan Porte insists they are critical to a healthy ecosystem. “We all want out rivers to flow … Read more
What a New Law Grad Can Teach HR About Disruptive Hiring
In 2007, Sarah Feingold had just graduated from Syracuse University Law School. While in school, she’d petitioned to take a graduate-level metal … Read more
Lifecycle Mastery: It Begins By Building Trust In Recruiting
This is part one of a six part look at how employers can master the talent lifecycle in a way that will help build a high performing workforce. … Read more
How to Make Your Job Ads More Effective
One of my favorite people in the analytics world is Mark Goldberg (now at McFrank & Williams). He called me to talk about the use of data in creating … Read more
If You Want a Great Workforce, Don’t Use These 5 Traditional Hiring Practices
Steve Jobs, the late CEO of Apple, famously said, The secret to my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the … Read more
Reflections of a Compensation Pro: Things I’ve Seen That Drive Me a Little Nuts
I’ve worked in Compensation my entire career. Spent most of it in Corporate America and now, for a bunch of years, as a global consultant. I love … Read more
Stop Relying on Job Descriptions and Find Candidates You Really Want
Job descriptions, those horribly written, barely comprehensible strings of roughly 500 words of stuff that only barely resembles reality if you squint … Read more
The Art of Making Job Descriptions Work for You
Is writing a job description just one more task that has to be checked off? Do you find yourself reduced to just putting down the basic bullets and … Read more
Job Descriptions? They’re a Waste of Time, So Hand Them to Marketing
Only employment lawyers and HR Pros from 1990 believe that job descriptions are important, legal-type documents that are still needed in 2014. Most … Read more
Is the Classic Job Description an Endangered Species?
Several leading business journals recently have declared the job itself, as a vehicle for packaging work, to be on the endangered species list . Commenting … Read more
Crafting an Effective Job Description: How to Actually Do It Right
I’ve written before about how managers hated job descriptions. Now, let’s take a fresh perspective and look at how writing descriptions should be … Read more