The Retail Staffing Challenge: Wrap it up — We’ll take it!

Mike Dwyer discusses current retail hiring trends and challenges and how the use social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin will amplify employees referrals and virtual walk-ins.

Recruiting web videos–Poll results

Click on the link to see the poll results.
http://polls.linkedin.com/poll-results/59062/zewan

Do you have plans next year to use web video as part of your recruiting process?

Utilizing web video in your social media recruitment strategies

2000 Retail Holiday Survey

last call for 2009 Retail Hiring Survey http://tinyurl.com/lr53nx #fb

Aon 2009 Seasonal Hiring Survey with Linkedin

You may be interested in participating in our seasonal hiring survey we are doing with Linkedin.
This upcoming holiday hiring season appears to be a difficult time to predict store staffing needs.  The results of this survey will help you benchmark your seasonal hiring forecasts compared to other retailers.  Aon will produce and distribute the survey [...]

Five “Do’s” for Handling High-Volume Recruitment in a Down Economy

How can HR effectively screen and manage a pool of candidates that is 10 to 20 times the number of typical applicants without jeopardizing the candidate and hiring manager experience?
• How can HR capitalize on the opportunity to make the best hiring decisions and meet hiring timeframes within tight cost constraints? Organizations should conceivably have the best candidates available to them in this economy, but HR is at risk of being overrun by sheer volume.

RPO Top 10 Potential Risks

As you first start with the exploratory internal discussions of RPO and will it solve our problems, below is a framework to consider about the inherent risks involved with RPO. As an advisor, I like to start with a couple of very basic questions:

1) Is there enough pain or is it worth the risk?

2) If it’s really worth it, how to best mitigate risk to insure a successful RPO implementation and most important the steady state.

Observations and Trends in RPO- 2009 and beyond

I see many of our RPO clients using this downturn to reorganize and optimize recruiting functions focusing efforts on:
1. reducing cost
2. improving processes and disconnects (“eliminating waste”)
3. building in flexibility, scalability
4. optimizing systems
5. introducing hybrid recruiting and hiring models
6. implementing web based assessment tools for high volume jobs
 
• Recruiting leaders are increasingly relying on carefully [...]

Implementing an Applicant Tracking System– Are you ready?

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In today’s economy, operational efficiency is a top priority for all organizations. HR executives are looking for ways to improve overall effectiveness while cutting costs. One common solution is to deploy an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to [...]

Executive Coaching

A recent blog focused on the benefits provided by realistic job previews in finding new hires who are both a good match (and therefore likelier to stay on the job) and are prepared to be individual contributors as quickly as possible. The same idea applies recently at an executive level. The result is “executive onboarding.” [...]

Building Talent Pipelines

Even with the looming recession and huge uncertainty, various industry research and real life client work are pointing to a common conclusion that the war for talent is indeed here and is becoming global in nature.  The knowledge economy is creating specialized needs for talent in strategic, new areas across functional lines as well as [...]

Passive candidates…Is there ROI?

One of the more frustrating and heated debates right now in corporate recruiting is that a passive candidate is better quality that a active one.  Especially now, in this market, isn’t everyone an active one?  And, what about companies lovefest with the passive candidate and how they desperately need to get these gems into the [...]

Skilled Trades Shortage in Manufacturing Sector

Believe it or not manufacturing is a hot sector for employment especially in the U.S.  Listen to the media and you would think this is the big loser.  No wonder the Millennials have no interest and manufacturing continues to see their talent pool evaporate.
At a time when employment trends can seem somewhat confusing, one thing is [...]