If I was a recruiter, I’d be like Jerry McGuire. One candidate/customer, special attention galore… Here’s the voice mail I would leave to my candidate – "I will not rest until I have you holding a Coke, wearing your own shoe, playing a Sega game *featuring you*, while singing your own song in a new commercial, *starring you*, broadcast during …
When Does HR Owe Contingency Search Firms a Fee?
If you are like me as a HR person, you’re always concerned about recruiting fees. The organization that pays no attention to the level of contingency search fees being paid is destined to look up and find their cost of hires to be 2X, 5X, even 10X what it should be. That’s a call to fully outsource your HR team. …
Recruiting Brand 101 – Candidates Think Your Hiring Managers are L.A.M.E.
How’s your recruiting brand? Got the website, collateral for candidates, maybe even some video? Cool!!!! Do your hiring managers reinforce the brand you are trying to create? Or are they lame, non-communicators destroying all the brand equity you’re building in your company as an “employer of choice?” Stop and think about this one. A while back, I riffed that the …
The Best Way to Lose Good Talent – Be Slow
Ran into a joint study commissioned by DDI/Monster entitled (brace for cliche) Slugging Through the War for Talent. The primary topic I was drawn to in the study? Easy choice – "Interviewer Habits That Most Annoy Job Seekers" (see chart to the right for the top choices of the abused…) While most of the poll results aren’t surprising (hiring manager …
Talent Nugget: The Value of the Receptionist
If you want to get upstream as a HR Pro, start reading Seth Godin. Blog, books (some listed on the side), whatever. Seth’s a marketing guy who understands the value of the brand in recruiting and talent. Case in point – One of Seth’s recent posts hits on the value of the receptionist (including value to your recruiting process): "Being …