Category: Blog

Reaping the Benefits of a Military Hiring Program

To sidestep a talent crunch and fill critical skill gaps, one solution for employers is recruiting people transitioning out of the military. These candidates have a breadth of transferable aptitude, skills, and training that could add real value to their business. Employees with proven records in collaboration, responsibility, loyalty, commitment, punctuality, and acting decisively under… Read more »

The “Kaizen” of Ford Recruiting: How To Get A Little Better, Every Day

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With a spot on the Forbes list of the World’s Best Employers and multiple gongs for the Best Global Culture, Best Company for Diversity, and Best Company Happiness, Ford’s talent and people teams have a reason to be proud of what they do. So says Melissa Thompson, Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Ford Motor… Read more »

Unlocking the Power of Your Recruiting Data: 10 Roundtable Takeaways

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Talent acquisition (TA) has a reputation for being afraid of data. Still, data-driven recruiting is less about cold metrics and more about understanding where you want your process and outcomes to be. Know where you’re going, and you will be delighted with how data can help you get there. But how do you get reliable… Read more »

Scarcity Bias: Why You Always Want the Candidates You Think Are Hardest to Get

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  Given the choice between two items, our brains try to convince us to choose the rarer “limited edition” option. That’s why people line up for days to buy the newest iPhone and why recruiters feel the need to hire the first (nearly) qualified candidate they find. Remember when everyone panic-bought toilet paper at the… Read more »

Which Comes First, the Tool or the Process?

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  Good tools are everywhere in talent acquisition. While it’s foolish or even dangerous to fix a broken process with more technology, you can fix broken technology with better technology—as long as the process is solid. Whenever there’s a problem in the talent acquisition (TA) process, you’ll hear the following debate play out: “We can’t… Read more »

Data: It’s Not a Dirty Word in Talent Acquisition!

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    The recruitment process is a treasure trove of data. Mined carefully, it can tell you all sorts of things about the candidates you’re hiring, declining, and losing and shed light on the performance of your recruitment activities. It’s the difference between making weak decisions based on luck or intuition versus informed decisions backed… Read more »