I was sitting in my living room this past Mother’s Day watching the final moments of the PGA Player’s Championship which was won by Tiger Woods and thought to myself how much America loves stories about people who fall and get back up. My teenage son was watching and cheering on Tiger, even though he [...]
You’ve heard it before – “Here at ACME, we only hire A players”. Nice! Except you and I both know they’re not all “A” players. You might have thought they were when you hired them, but hiring managers miss. People change. Talent gets bored. Your company is dysfunctional. Which is why you have to measure [...]
The CEO of clothier Abercrombie and Fitch, Mike Jeffries, made some comments in an article that have set off women across the world! Here are some of the comments from the original article in Salon (By the way – the article is from January 2006! – but were brought to light by a local CBS [...]
Jessica Hagy, over at Indexed, inspires me constantly – this is one I made based on her inspiration: It’s what you sign up for in HR – you’re going to take the blame when a bad hire happens, and your hiring managers are going to take [...]
My friend and HR Pro, Kris Dunn, is fond of saying – “The world needs ditch diggers to”. I got into a conversation with a couple HR pros recently regarding helping them find ways to find ‘unskilled’ talent for their company. Today’s ‘unskilled’ doesn’t really mean having no skills – it means the person didn’t [...]
Here’s the question: “Can you please help me on how do you convince a candidate to work on contract?” Sam – New Jersey Here’s some background, because some people might be confused on what the question even asks. A ‘Contract’ position is usually what technical engineering and IT recruiters refer to for a professional temporary [...]
Here’s the scenario: You have an opening and you do your recruiting thing. You find a candidate and low and behold they are great! What luck!? You think to yourself. The hiring manager is going to thrilled. Boy, my job is easy! Do I need to even go on? You set up the interview with [...]
I have to say one of my most read posts, ever, and one that I take the most crap about is -What would it take to get you to work 80 hours per week? People actually take this post as a personal attack to their work ethic. So, I’m here to say – I still [...]
If there is one thing that I hear more from hiring managers and executives, especially executives!, it is why can’t recruiting, as a function, be more proactive! Both groups look at it like an economic lesson – supply and demand – like recruiting is an assembly line. In ‘their’ world they have expected needs, and [...]
There was an excellent article recently on how iTunes singles have killed the music industry. Buying singles hasn’t killed sales, though, in fact sales are actually up! So, how has iTunes killed the music industry? “When music sales reached their peak in 2000, Americans bought 943 million CD albums, and digital sales weren’t even a [...]
