View the webinar on HR.com Recruiting and selecting the kind of talent that can assure success takes know-how, practice, and discipline – and an ATS alone won’t solve the problem. Whose fault is it that you have so many mis-hires? Your managers? Your interview skills? Not at all: your hiring method fails you. If …
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You know that vacant positions can cause a sense of urgency to fill jobs quickly. Work piles up. Deadlines are approaching. There isn’t enough time in a day or enough hands to help, so it’s tempting to fast-track the hiring process. But HR is caught in a bind. On one hand there is a temptation to …
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Every year various business editors offer their thoughts on the best business books of the year, or decade… or even “of all time.” What is often more meaningful is when a successful CEO ranks books, since their success can serve as an example of the books’ value. Rob Kelly, founder of Ongig and former CEO …
Having furloughed or laid off employees, is your company finally inching back into hiring people? When you crank up hiring, will hiring just “okay” performers be good enough or do you really want to hire high performers? Our research over the years shows two things: If you are a CEO, hiring manager, head of HR, …
Two Questions That Reveal if a Job Candidate is a High Performer Read More »
In the first blog of this series, which focuses on how to get top results when working with outside recruiters, I recommended that you require all recruiters to inform the candidates they present to you that as a final step in hiring, the candidates will arrange reference calls with managers they reported to. In this …
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