When I started as a recruiter in the 1980s, these things were true: If you knew the actual job needs in detail and the hiring manager personally, you only needed to present 2-3 strong candidates to make a placement. You’d normally only need to talk with 8-10 reasonably strong prospects to wind up with 2-3 strong candidates. Half of these strong candidates were...
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Three weeks ago, I met with a bunch of CEOs who are members of Vistage, an organization helping small and mid-size companies grow and manage their businesses. One of their biggest challenges is finding and hiring the right people. At the meeting, they all complained that the recruiters they were using were inadequate. They said few understood the job...
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In the process of writing the 4th edition of Hire with Your Head, my publisher, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., wanted to know what has changed from when the first edition was published in 1997. Not much, I said. Despite the enormous investment in technology and process improvement, companies still struggle to find enough top-tier talent to fill high-demand positions...
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Raising the talent bar involves consistently hiring people who are in the top half of their peer group. If this is a strategic talent...
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Maximizing quality of hire and spending less money at the same time may seem impossible, but it isn’t. It all comes down to allocating...
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No candidate selection process can deliver a 100% success rate—even world class assessors make mistakes from time to time. As long as...
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