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 of your total population these contractors represent. The reason this is…
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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 the organization. Both of these concepts are important, and the desired…
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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 Profile” which I think has existed in one form or another…
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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 hire, business units, recruiters, etc to identify who is doing the…
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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 niche areas of talent acquisition. The idea behind the recruiting CRM…
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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 same type of work. What actually made the difference? It was…
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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 necessarily the truth. Limited access for journalists (to protect the athletes?): …
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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 us. So if you’re feeling genius at the moment, or just…
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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 some new HR technologies well ahead of everyone else. Remember recruiting…
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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 advent of Web 2.0, many hiring managers are increasingly dependent on…
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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 not particularly interested in most of what other analysts are interested…
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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 the recruiting space, there were really 3 powerhouses, being of course…
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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 Jason Blessing, group vice president and general manager, SMB, Taleo. “With…
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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 people on a weekly basis. Even is this is the nice…
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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 many sales organizations that the number of leads eventually results 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 be heard. Therefore, read the pro’s on video resumes below and…
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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 business theories. Even MBA’s get a minimal schooling in these. One…
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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 to go with everyone else and pronounce this one to be…
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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 links to various sources on just about any recruiting topic you…
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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 questions I’ve never heard before. Here are questions 1, 2 and…