Talent Acquisition
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HR Metrics: Contractor fill rates
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So you probably have a specific number of independent contractors, consultants and agency employees within your organization. You also probably have not really given much thought around what percentage…
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HR Metrics: External recruitment rate
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Feb 4 The external recruitment rate is important because it informs of the organization’s ability to provide growth opportunities for employees and alternatively to infuse new ideas from outside…
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LinkedIn Talent Advantage
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LinkedIn is expanding it’s corporate recruiting functionality today with Talent Advantage. Really, all of the functionality is old stuff that has been rebranded. There is a new “Custom Company…
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HR Metrics: Quality of Hire
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All too often, we talk about the quality of hire measured by a new employee’s first performance review. We like to correlate this metric back to the source of…
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Recruiting CRM’s
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There seems to be a fairly significant movement from recruiting as an applicant tracking system to a relationship management system. At this point, I’m advocating recruiting CRM’s in some…
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HR Metrics: Offer Accept Rate
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Last time I looked for a job, I had three offers. Each of these offers were with very similar organizations, with very similar offer packages, and with exactly the…
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Cover-ups
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Up through the Beijing Olympics, I’d been reading stories almost on a daily basis about how China was trying to present a public image of itself that was not…
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Microsoft’s Attempt at GenY
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Hey, Genius. We want you. We know you’re genius in some way or another. Whether you’re code crazy, binary brilliant or master of origami dollhouses, it’s all good by…
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Better Recruiting Through Social Networks?
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Jobvite released their new survey on the utilization of social networks for recruiting. Most of this is not a surprise as recruiting seems to be the early adopter for…
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10 Job Fair Tips That Really Work (For the Recruiter)
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The following was contributed to the site: Whether you are looking for interns or executives, attending a job fair can be a very effective strategy for recruiters. With the…
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The State of Kenexa
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Last month Kenexa invited a group of analysts and industry influencers to PA for a roundup and briefing of what they are up to. I’ll personally say that I’m…
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Taleo and Vurv: The State of the Talent Marketplace
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While it comes as no surprise that software vendor consolidation continutes to happen, It was not exactly what I was expecting when Taleo announced their acquisition of Vurv. In…
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Taleo Goes Down Market
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“Recruiting and retaining talent is the number one challenge for SMBs, and job boards, Excel spreadsheets and Outlook fall short when it comes to competing for superior candidates,” said…
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Rejected Applicants and External Brand
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Say you are Google. You have a few hundred thousand people sending you applications and resumes on a weekly basis. Therefore, you have to reject a few hundred thousand…
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Changing the Numbers Game
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Recruiting is an equation of numbers. So many candidates = so many applicants = so many interviews = so many new hires. This is a well known strategy in…
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A Thumbs Up for Video Resumes
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The following was written by Colleen Aylward, Founder of InterviewStudio.com as a rebuttal to my unapologetically negative rant on video resumes. Every opinion has a counter and deserves to…
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Queueing Theory and HR
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I’ve always been interested in business theory and its possible applications to HR. Unfortunately, many HR practitioners (or business practitioners for that matter) are not well educated in many…
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Thumbs Down for Video Resumes
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YourHRGuy.com wrote about video resumes recently, casting an overall thumbs down for them. Usually I’m the advocate of technology and doing/thinking about things differently. In this case, I’m going…
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A Recruiting Cheat Sheet
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As the world prepares for the News Year recruiting season, I thought I’d just link out to a resource for recruiters and applicants alike. Within this page are 100…
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Great Job Interview Questions
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I’d like to reference a post on CEOconsultant.com with a list of 10 great questions. To be honest, I found only a few of them innovative, but those are…