Abraham Lincoln hired and fired many generals during the Civil War. You have to wonder what good sourcing and recruiting could have done for him and how it might have affected the length of the war or the number of …
Hiring managers dream of reducing the time it takes to source qualified candidates and fill job openings. For recruiters, reducing time to fill might seem like mission impossible and just as plausible as finding the elusive purple squirrel. Well, in …
As a recruiter, you’re familiar with the post and pray method: You post a job and then pray the right candidate applies. This method might occasionally yield good results. However, given shrinking candidate markets and increasingly technical application processes, companies …
For those of you who manage or sponsor workforce solution programs, such as RPO and MSP, it’s that time of year again: business review season. Business reviews provide an opportunity to review program performance, strategize about innovation, and outline the …
Talent acquisition can feel a lot like dating. After all, you are seeking the employee with the right skills, attitude, and work experience to help increase your company’s success. The search can be difficult. Many times, you feel like you’re mining through …
Today’s BLS employment report offers a number of reasons for cautious optimism regarding the strengthening economy. The challenge for many companies is balancing this optimism with the reality of the resources and costs for finding and keeping good, skilled workers. …
Over the course of the past few years, we’ve written a number of posts on the potential migration of talent and the need to execute now the necessary workforce strategies that will help retain top talent when the economy rebounds. …
I own the upper unit of a two-unit condo in Seattle. As a city dweller, I reserve the right to be surrounded by hundreds of people without actually knowing any of them. That said, my downstairs neighbors are like family. …
In this series, we’ve already covered how technology will affect workforce management and how people will work in the future. In this final installment, we look at the need to find, recruit, and keep qualified and talented people in your …
“Top Gun” is a movie that changed my world. Putting the political aspects of the film aside, as a kid I loved to watch elite naval aviators fly supersonic fighter jets and rattle off movie lines that would become iconic …
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