Thought Leadership
Why Retention Is Critical to Your Company’s Success
Why Retention Is Critical to Your Company’s Success When I was the Recruiting Manager for a pre-IPO company, I posed a question to the VP of Sales: Why is your team “pouring through salespeople in small towns like water down a drain?” His response? “Why is a Recruiter asking me business questions?” I replied with…
Read MoreHow Often Has Your Business Ignored Solutions to Talent Attraction Problems?
How Often Has Your Business Ignored Solutions to Talent Attraction Problems? And yet, you continue down the same path, hoping for a positive change. What do they call that practice? Oh yes, insanity. Let’s face facts: the “Post Online and Hope” approach to attracting the BEST candidates only works about 8% of the time (per…
Read More“I Did It My Way”
One of the reasons you find yourself leading a company is the belief that you can do a better job than your predecessor. This sentiment was a driving force behind my decision to launch my talent attraction consultancy, RecruiterGuy.com, in 1990. In writing this article for the Concrete Foundations Association’s quarterly magazine, Concrete Facts, I…
Read MoreTALENT ATTRACTION Is NOT “JUST RECRUITING!”
As a Leading Talent Attraction Consultant, my 40+ years of Talent Attraction Consulting experience has honed my recruiting skills. The Talent Attraction process is more effective than the post and hope Talent Acquisition process.
Read More#JobSearch #Friday – Do You Feel Your Job Search Is Stuck In The Snow? (559 words)
Far too often we become so focused on one solution that we keep pounding it until it ends in disaster. For instance, think of the recent Super Bowl. The San Francisco 49ers kept the same defense through the second half of the game. That Defense worked tremendously well for the first half of the Super…
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