Do you want to know what the perfect job in Talent Acquisition is? It’s working for the brand or organization where everyone, or seemingly everyone, wants to work! Duh! Right? But, no, think about this for a second. The reality is scarcity causes demand. Why do certain sneakers from Adidas and Nike sell out in seconds? Because the demand is …
Live Recruiting Events (for Candidates) Are About To Come Back to Life
Think about it. It make sense that if we’re about to take off the masks and convert some WFH people back to the office, a dinosaur in the recruiting process— THE LIVE EVENT—is about to make a comeback. You remember the live event, right? It’s also known as a JOB FAIR by the kids who aren’t looking to be cool. …
STEAL THESE SLIDES: We’re Making PPT Decks on Recruiting For You to Use (as your own)
Admit it – you loved the Netflix Culture deck back in the day, right? The simplicity, the great ideas, the black and white slides. But you don’t have enough time to spend on presentation decks. You have other stuff to do. That’s why we created the Steal These Slides series! Hit this link to get the first deck! Every time we do a roadmap, a tool …
Are You Recruiting “Out of System?”
My wife is a former college volleyball player (I met her when I was the student assistant on the team, there has to be an HR story in there somewhere!), and this week the NCAA is having their national championship “Covid” D1 volleyball tournament in Omaha, NE. Needless to say, we’ve been watching a bunch of volleyball. ESPN has been …
What Sales Rep Title Will Generate the Most Traffic to Your Job Posting?
Great research and post over at OnGig related to which Sales Titles generate the most traffic to job postings. You can click on the image to the right to blow up the pie charts to a more readable view. To summarize what OnGig found, here’s some numbers on the most prevalent sales job titles and the traffic they generated. Take a look …
Talent Acquisition Leaders! When Was the Last Time You Fired a Hiring Manager?
In the third-party recruiting world, we like to talk all big and aggressive about “firing” clients. “Yeah, ABC Corp was a bunch of idiots to work with, they didn’t know what they really wanted, I fired them!” No, you didn’t, Timmy! Calm down! Okay, you’re probably right. I don’t really “fire” a client, I just stop working with them. Stop …
Fast, Good and Cheap: Pick 2 for Recruiting in a Post-COVID World
I’m on record as calling BS on the psychology of many Hiring Managers in a postrecession world, as many hiring managers think they have postrecession hiring power when it comes to the recruiting process. For a brief time after a recession, this theory is true. Recessions lead to high unemployment, which means candidate supply outstrips employer demand. The issue, of …
Why are Leaders A$$holes When it Comes to Giving Up Talent?
Internal mobility has never been hotter. Organizations like Workday and Oracle spent years building out their internal mobility tech and I didn’t get it at first. I’m like, is this really needed!? Then, organizations started using it and it exploded! Turns out, our employees actually like us, but they want the freedom to move within our organizations. That is making …
Twitter Users Aren’t Your Candidates!
I find way too many HR and Talent leaders and pros are using Twitter to confirm ideas and thoughts they are having: “I heard,” “I found,” “I saw”. . . and when I ask where did you see and hear these things, it almost always starts with Twitter or Insta. We want to believe that reaching out to a platform …
2020 Employee Referral Program Data! How do you stack up?
The Holy Grail of Hiring is Employee Referrals. Period. End of story. If you don’t get it, you shouldn’t be in the business of hiring people. Please do not pass go, do not collect $200. (Wait, is it still $200 for passing Go in Monopoly? You would think inflation would have adjusted that!) Drafted, an employee referral startup, apparently (Hey, …