By Dawn Onley If you call it a party, they will come." Nellie Peshkov, vice president of talent acquisition at Netflix, said these words during LinkedIn's Talent Connect conference for recruiters in 2016, referring to "sourcing parties," where recruiters, hiring managers and company employees meet over lunch or after work to strategize on finding the best candidates [...]
St. Jude, Southwest Airlines share what’s working for them By Pamela Babcock March 12, 2019 NEW YORK CITY—Companies can choose from lots of recruiting technology. But with a limited budget, how can they get the best results in today's scorching-hot hiring market and make sure top candidates don't slip through the system? At St. Jude Children's [...]
Innovations in software are driving the evolution of the talent acquisition function. HR tech influencer Josh Bersin calls it: The new landscape of talent acquisition – Josh Bersin Talent acquisition departments need to assess their recruiting tools and understand the new innovations out there to help them succeed in today’s candidate-driven and resource-conscious market. Currently, [...]
By DEREK ZELLER MARCH 5, 2019 One of the banes of a recruiter’s existence is metrics. There is no head down in the trenches recruiter that cares about, “cost of hire” or “time to fill” they want to get good candidates in the door, interviewed, then working. Although the ideal dream is to let someone else [...]
Recruitment of Women: Rethinking Gender Diversity Mar 01, 2019 Jim McCoy0 7 min read What a surprising surge in women executive hires reveals about companies’ reactive approach to gender diversity. In the last quarter of 2017, we saw a significant uptick in the number of female senior executives hired by U.S. companies. This wasn’t just [...]
Forbes Coaches Council POST WRITTEN BY Cara Heilmann Cara is CEO of Ready Reset Go®—career coaching firm helping people get jobs they love. Tom, a recent job candidate, had no idea how prevalent artificial intelligence (AI) had become until he was deep into his job search. Even though he wondered at times what he could do to [...]
“Being a brand ambassador is the entire point of recruiting, and done well its entire competitive advantage.” – Matt Charney, Chief Content Officer at Allegis Global Solutions Candidates are consumers For most candidates, the initial interview with recruiters and/or hiring managers is their first real impression of the organization – and, as we all know, first impressions [...]
Forbes Coaches Council CommunityVoice POST WRITTEN BY Forbes Coaches Council Top business and career coaches from Forbes Coaches Council offer firsthand insights on leadership development & careers. According to Undercover Recruiter, artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to replace 16% of HR jobs within the next 10 years. While this doesn’t necessarily mean you will be without a position, [...]
By TRISH WYDERKA FEBRUARY 1, 2019 Having returned from a much-needed vacation that included watching Indiana Jones movies for a week, I wondered what new hidden treasures could assist me in achieving some research goals for 2019? I thought about directories, but wondered, “what kind?” The definition of directories has expanded during my career. In 1992 [...]
By MATT BUCKLAND Something is rotten in the state of modern sourcing. The sourcing community at large is brilliant. When I was in Budapest last year at SourceCon, the world’s largest sourcing get together, I’d never experienced the types of familial bonds they shared when I’d been to broader, general recruiting conferences. They were supportive, actively [...]
