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What Companies Can Learn From the College Admissions Process by Barbara Safani - Apr, 2010 I recently spent two weeks touring college campuses with my daughter. I quickly became fascinated with the process...everything from the information sessions to the student guided tours to the admissions requirements made me think about what hiring authorities at companies could learn from the college admissions process. What struck me on these tours were six things that schools practice routinely that you would think would... |
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If You Don't Find Me First, You're Too Late by Lou Adler - Mar, 2010 There are three basic types of metrics that should be used by recruiting departments to see how well they’re performing. Historical metrics like cost per hire and time to fill, tell you where you’ve been, but not where you are or where you’re going. While the trends of these are important, the information is too late to take preventative action. Process control metrics like interviews per day and job postings viewed and... |
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Sourcing the 85 Percent Who Are Not Actively Looking by Lou Adler - Mar, 2010 If you follow these five steps you will find more top performers within hours: 1. Put the employee value proposition (EVP) in the ad title as a tagline. Here are two examples of before and after ads and the impact of this change. A hospital group in Northern California ran an ad for nurses with this title on a nurse job board: “Flight Nurses – Sacramento, CA.” It had few responses between Thanksgiving, 2009, and Feb. 5, ... |
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Employers: Why Use a Recruiter In This Market? by Harry Urschel - Mar, 2010 Why use a recruiter when I’m getting plenty of resumes from my ads and job postings? In times of economic downturn companies often decide that one way to “save” money is by eliminating fees to recruiters when looking for new employees. Why shouldn’t they? After all, they post an ad online, or in the paper, and there’s a much larger stream of applicants than they’ve had in the past. “Why pay a 20% to 30% fee when I see... |
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Stay the Buyer – The Secret to Recruiting Top Performers by Lou Adler - Mar, 2010 Most recruiters think that recruiting means being able to sell or talk your candidate into the merits of your job. To me, this is a 10% solution at best. While it will work some of the time, it misses the forest for the trees. The best people – whether they’re active or passive and not desperate – will not be swayed by your cleverness. Instead, they will make a career-oriented decision focusing on short- and long-term ... |
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Are You Ready for the Upcoming Hiring Tsunami? by Lou Adler - Mar, 2010 Over the past few weeks I’ve met with 50 or so recruiting leaders from major corporations around the country. Interestingly, nobody is doing nothing. A third are increasing their hiring forecasts, a third are hiring more recruiters, and a third are getting ready for a sign that hiring will increase. It appears that the stars are finally in alignment. So get ready to rumble. We’re in for a triple witching hour hiring tsuna... |
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Planning and Executing a Reduction in Force: A 10-Point Inspection by Stephanie Thomas, Ph.D. - Feb, 2010 According to the Mass Layoff Statistics program (Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics), there were 28,030 mass layoff events and 2,796,456 initial claims during 2009. These are recorded program highs. The unemployment rate closed out the year at 10 percent, up more than three and a half percentage points from the previous year. Given the current economic conditions, many businesses are struggling and may need to ... |
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Three Quick Tips on Converting Corporate Recruiters into Headhunters by Lou Adler - Feb, 2010 The economic recovery will begin. Someday. Hopefully soon. You’ll know that day has arrived when most of the following occurs on a regular basis: 1. Candidates begin accepting counter-offers. 2. Candidates want more money. 3. Candidate opt-out rates increase at every step in the hiring process. 4. Candidates you just found tell you they have just received an offer. 5. Your best people leave for greener pastures at an a... |
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The Two-Headed Monster by Bob Maher - Feb, 2010 Specific to recruitment and placement activity and the Career Services Profession that provides support to both using groups, technology has long provided a siren song of improvements in quality and efficiency. After all, isn’t that exactly what technology represents...a tool for us to use? Here's where technology has really created a two-headed monster (with a small "m"). In my opinion, the largest, most utilized Interne... |
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Lonely at the Top: What Are You Going to Do About It? by Suzanne Bates - Feb, 2010 I’m not one to preach when it comes to finding people to help me. Prior to launching my business ten years ago I was a television reporter so I didn’t make decisions that had an impact on other people. I was surrounded by people all day long, in the newsroom and on my assignments, so I certainly didn’t feel lonely. Once you start a business or get promoted to run something, everything changes. I would guess most leaders ... |
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