“The Recruiting Department is where data goes to die.” This sentiment was shared with me during a recent conversation related to one of the many sourcing technologies flooding the market. It was the opinion of this person, that the idea of data driven recruiting and the reality of data driven recruiting simply don’t match up. Ultimately, his point was that only a very small percentage of corporate recruiting departments have the resources to analyze the [...]
I have been blogging and presenting on the practice of Employment Branding since 2005, and facilitating a group on LinkedIn focused on this subject matter since 2009. This is an area of human resource management that I’m zealously passionate about, and the group has served as an excellent opportunity to connect with and learn from other like-minded professionals who truly believe in the importance and value of making great hires for every opening. While I [...]
Mid- to senior-level roles require a certain level of training, experience and, ideally, a track record of success. Candidates with these qualifications are typically passive job seekers who may currently be working for a competitor and they need to be convinced to some degree. They will want to understand why your company is the right choice for them and they will want to know what your company can offer. That’s an excerpt from a former [...]
The final two months of 2008 resulted in a precipitous decline in job posting activity on our site as the economy began to tumble off the cliff, to paraphrase Warren Buffett’s sentiments. Since the beginning of 2009, I’ve been focusing my attention on identifying and developing new programs and services that will add value to the users of our company’s web service- namely HR professionals, small business owners and managers, recruiters, and job seekers- in [...]
Upon reading this internal communication, I realized just how much negative press has been devoted to exposing the dark underbelly of corporate greed through the acquisition of private and revealing emails. Rarely does one encounter a news bit that begins with, “Our station has acquired a copy of the internal email…”, and is followed by a feel-good or uplifting story. Normally, this type of exposure ends in a story about some type of insidious and [...]