Conference Networking with a Twitter Throw Net

In Hawai’i and throughout much of the world’s tropical climates, fishermen commonly use throw nets instead of a single line and pole in order to improve their yields.   Twitter can serve the same purpose for networking recruiters.

For example, if you’d like to attend an industry conference to network with prospective candidates or business development leads but you don’t have the [...]

10 Ways to Foster Recruiting Innovation

Innovation in the workplace generates business benefits through the exploration, testing and application of new ideas and practices.  It can improve current practices and remove process roadblocks.  It can be radically game changing or introduce small incremental improvements.  While there is no one way to innovate, to be sure, without talent acquisition innovation, businesses will stick with current [...]

Six Tips For Recruiters Surfing Job Board Aggregators

“Where should I post my job opening?”

Six HR tips for using job aggregators.

I hear this question weekly from HR colleagues and clients.  Assuming the people asking this question are specifically targeting active candidates (pursuing the estimated 80% of talent who aren’t actively checking out new positions on job boards is a completely different type [...]

Retweeting HR Bread Crumbs

Have you ever found something online that you intended to revisit in the future but when the time came, you couldn’t find it?

As a recruiter, I’ve found that retweeting (RT) on Twitter saves me from the headache of losing “wow” finds on Twitter.  Especially when I’ve found someone I’d like to network with or reach [...]

Bring Some Bright Stars to Work Day

Many U.S. employers are familiar with the annual “Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work Day“.  It’s an opportunity for employees to bring their child or a young family friend to their place of work and familiarize them with what a day in the life would look like in the host’s chosen field.  It’s memorable way to share career [...]

Right Hand, Meet the Left Hand: 8 Questions to Ask Before Recruiting Starts

Have you ever presented an absolutely on-target candidate to your hiring manager who was thrilled about the candidate only to have the process stall after second round interviews because the hiring stakeholders couldn’t agree on next steps for the candidate?

Before pinning the indecisive outcome on the candidate, consider whether all the hiring stakeholders were on the same page [...]

Remember Candidates in Benefit Communications

Remember new hires and candidates when designing benefit plan communications.

When developing employee benefit communication tools for employees, remembering to include an audience of candidates, recruiters and new hires into the mix can give your organization an advantage when competing for selective talent.

Amanda Lannert shared a great employee benefits enrollment communication post this week at www.tlnt.com.  [...]

Four tips for landing better new hire debriefs

While visiting a sail plane (aka glider) facility in Southern California recently, I watched seasoned sail plane pilots training new pilots on equipment and acrobatic maneuvers.  After the pilot pairs landed, they huddled to review their flight experience, identify errors and talk about what went right.  Essentially, they debriefed the flight to prepare for a better experience the next [...]

There may not be a labor shortage, but there will be a talent crisis.

Ryan Estis, is a marketing and business performance consultant who really gets HR.  He’s a pretty dynamic speaker too.  Ryan’s presentation at the 2010 SHRM conference in San Diego in June, titled “HR 2.0:  How Talent, Technology and Transformation are Shaping Tomorrow’s HR Organization”, got my vote for the most engaging session of day one.  This was [...]

Sourcing from the inside

When good recruiting sourcers start a new project, they first define the search specifications with hiring managers then customize and implement tested methodologies for producing external candidates. 

Great sourcers understand that top prospect leads come from inside and outside the organization.   They build two dimensional sourcing strategies after talking with hiring managers to identify where the internal and external virtual water [...]