When it comes to finding that perfect candidate, I’m always looking for a “Win-Win Hiring” outcome. This means that both the hiring manager and the new hire both agree it was the right decision one year into the job. While defining hiring success with this outcome is a worthy goal, it requires some significant reengineering of your hiring process to achieve it...
Posts by Lou Adler
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- Quality of Hire,
- Recruiting Tips
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While writing my book, The Essential Guide for Hiring & Getting Hired, I found it challenging to write the section about “Getting Hired” since my target audience was primarily hiring managers, interviewers, and recruiters. But I felt the “Getting Hired” part was important to add in order to give job seekers a chance to take control of the interview whenever they...
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- Interview Questions,
- Recruiting Tips
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I contend that “Win-Win Hiring” will become the dominant hiring trend in the next decade. A “Win-Win Hiring” outcome means both the hiring manager and the new employee agree it was the right decision one year after starting. This is a challenging goal, but possible with the proper use of metrics. My early career was in manufacturing where metrics were used to...
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- Quality of Hire
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In their landmark study — First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently — Gallup introduced their Q12...
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- Job Descriptions,
- Recruiting Tips
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While inquiring about the status of a hiring manager interview training proposal, a client told me she would get back to me as soon as...
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- Quality of Hire,
- Recruiting Tips
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Recruiters can play a strategic role in any company, but too often their focus is filling jobs with a reasonably competent person at a...
- Topics:
- Future of Recruiting,
- Recruiting Tips