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
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 »
Protecting Your Business: Essential Strategies to Mitigate Follow-On Lawsuits
Unlocking the Power of Your Recruiting Data: 10 Roundtable Takeaways
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
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?
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 »
Steering Data in the Right Direction: How to Get From Chaos to a Data-Driven TA Function
Talent acquisition leaders have access to more data than ever before to help guide their decision-making. Paradoxically, the abundance of data can be more distracting than anything… if you don’t know how to harness and use it. Taming the beast starts by implementing a coherent data strategy—here’s how you get there. Recruiting is inherently an… Read more »
Data: It’s Not a Dirty Word in Talent Acquisition!
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 »
Urgency Bias is Wrecking Your Ability to Hire Quality Talent and Keep The Talent You Hire
Have you ever been sucked into email instead of finishing an important report that could have a profound impact on the company or dropped everything to attend a hastily called meeting, even though it was merely a status update with no significant outcomes? As most of us do, you probably suffer from urgency bias—the tendency… Read more »