For recent college graduates, nothing is more frustrating than applying for entry-level jobs that require experience. With degrees in hand, an eagerness to perform and a willingness to learn on the job, these prospective hires could be making a significant…
Job Descriptions
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…
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, organizations fail miserably. One reason for this rate of failure is “credential creep“: the act of raising minimum…
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 apply for this job! [bold and uppercase] This, believe it or not, was…
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 whole world of job advertising via Instagram). Then there’s video (companies like Sparc…
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 faster and deeper. We want more productivity, better culture, better people. The way you…
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 smithing class around her passion outside of law — jewelry-making. That’s when she discovered Etsy—an eBay-type, startup marketplace for…
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. Today’s post examines talent attraction. Other posts are listed at the end…
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 job ads, but ended up impressing me even more by talking…
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 world.” Hiring the best people in the world is an exceptionally high standard…
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 what I do, but at the same time can acknowledge that it’s not…
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 hard, are the coin of the realm in the recruiting world. And no matter how much we complain…
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 pressing send before forgetting all about it? You’re not alone – but…
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 companies have given up on job descriptions (JDs). At best, you’ll find people today using ones from…
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 on the same phenomenon, Charles Savage describes “the rigor mortis of the industrial era” where the division…
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 handled. Call this a beginner’s guide, a how-to procedural, or simply a few tips ‘n tricks that…
HR Basics: How to Write a High Performance Job Description
Determined to find just the right people to fill your open positions? The process starts long before the interview, and as an HR professional, much of that weight is on your shoulders. By writing accurate, concise job descriptions, you’re more…
Get Rid of Job Descriptions and You’ll Hire Better People
Editor’s note: TLNT is continuing an annual tradition by counting down the most popular posts of the year. This is No. 6. Our regular content will return on Monday. For the past 30 years I’ve been on a kick to ban traditional skills —…
Are Your Job Listings Trying to Tell You Something?
Put yourself in your prospective employee’s shoes. What would make you apply for the job you’re listing? Are you looking for a title, more money, or career advancement? Most people want these things, and most companies claim they can offer…