Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “War for Talent”
Our system for hiring employees is broken. What’s more, I’m not sure that anyone knows how to fix it. Take a look at a very scary chart from the St. Louis Federal Reserve. So, of everyone who is currently unemployed, almost 40% of them have been out of work for more than six months. This has never happened in any …
Your organization moves at a certain pace. Your high potential employees, though, move at a faster pace — that’s probably why you identified them as high potential in the first place! Unfortunately, without the rest of the organization following along, the effort may fall flat. I’ve been thinking about this recently because this month marks the ten-year anniversary of the …
Sequestration, filibuster, campaign finance… Congressional dysfunction isn’t just them, it’s how *we* manage them! Consider the recruiting pool a member of Congress. Technically, you only need to be a citizen and over 35, so the talent pool is pretty large. Realistically, though, it’s hard to run for Congress if it’s your first time in elected office. You’re probably a local …
The next big thing in HR is also the #1 thing HR sucks in. Whether you’re feeling it or not in your organization, hiring is coming back. That means slowly but surely the economy is getting better. That means slowly but surely you’re going to have people retiring. All those Baby Boomers that held on an extra 2, 3, 4 …
Let’s face it; a blown call is a blown call. Be it on the football field, basketball court or in hiring. Recruiters and refs get tainted with the one or two blown calls but seldom do we celebrate the hundreds of good calls they make. The other day I was watching a football match (soccer for all you neophytes) and …
Have you guys ever seen a top level athlete in high school get recruited to play college sports? I'm not talking about your best friend Mary's son, Billy, who hit .338 his senior at Northern High and is getting a partial scholarship to St. Mary's Western Community College. I'm talking top 100 kids who have offers from USC, Notre Dame, …
I haven't read the book HR Champions because there are much better things to do with my life. I need to finish the first season of Homeland. I would like to travel to India. I still haven’t finished Moby Dick. (Don't tell my English teacher.) I have bigger aspirations for my life than reading a book about Human Resources, but …
I was talking recently to a head of HR of a manufacturing company in the Midwest about some recruiting challenges they were having. You see, I don't know if you know this or not, but I'm kind of a big deal when it comes to providing solutions for people's recruiting challenges. Anyway – my solution for her was she needed …
You know what I learned really early in my career in recruiting? Companies really don”t like to hire folks coming out of the military. Yeah, I just said that. That might be the most politically incorrect thing that a HR Pro can say nowadays! In fact, we hear the exact opposite from company executives, don”t we? In fact if you …
When I think of a war for talent, images come to mind of recruiters playing tug-o-war over top candidates. Hair is flying, shirt sleeves being ripped off, all the while the frazzled candidate has a huge smile on their face–knowing they can name the salary for their dream job. In actuality, the pending battle will be fought behind the scenes, …
