Category: HR Need To Know

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 »

  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 »

  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 »

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 »

    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 »

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 »