What Keeps you up at Night? Clutch Performance

How many times has a consultant asked you, “What keeps you up at night?”  It’s a well-intentioned question aimed at getting to heart of whatever issues plague your organization, but it may have outlived its usefulness.  In any case, I know how I would respond if someone had asked me that question today: “Clutch.”
Clutch means [...]

Employment Branding Matters Even More

Last time, I talked about the importance of branding. And while it’s certainly true that branding matters (anyone NOT know the “brands”at right???), I think there’s a strong case to be made that employment branding matters even more. Because at the end of the day, your company isn’t run by products and services, it’s run [...]

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 [...]

Why Do Organizations Use Recruitment Process Outsourcing?

In an industry that is becoming increasing commoditized, it is refreshing to know that not all buyers are choosing their Recruitment Outsourcing partners primarily on price. In a recent Benefit and Talent Survey taken by Aon Consulting in January 2008, over a thousand respondents comprised of HR Leaders from organizations of all sizes located throughout [...]

Branding…it matters.

For loyal readers (I’m guessing we’re about to break into double digits at this early stage!) who’ve been waiting patiently for the next installment of “RPO Myths”, or any installment for that matter, and whose keen eyes have noticed that there is a significant difference in our look and feel (again), you are witnessing the [...]

Great Article on Employee Referral Programs

John Hassett, Recruitment Process Outsourcing, was quoted in last week’s issue of Workforce Management on referral programs. John provided insight on different approached employers are using. See link and full text article below with John’s insight highlighted.
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Despite Success, There Are Reasons to Be Wary of Referral Programs
Employers unfamiliar with referral programs can inadvertently create an [...]

Myths, myths, and more myths (continued) #7

#7) RPO Doesn’t Work (or so I’ve heard…
One of the reasons (among several) that I could never be a journalist is that, at heart, I’m a completely optimistic human being. People are generally good, I live in a great country, our economic system is the best in the world, and overall, life moves along in [...]

The most important retention metric of all

Have you ever been on a boat with a hole in it? Unfortunately I have. What would you do? As a kid, I would try to get a bucket and feverishly bail the water out as fast as I could. Usually it left me exhausted, frustrated, and at the end of the day, [...]

Myths, myths, and more myths (continued) #8

Myth #8: RPO Costs Too Much
As we continue down the list of what I’m calling “myths“, or rather misperceptions, surrounding the use of recruitment process outsourcing to augment or replace an organization’s recruitment/staffing function or processes, somewhere on the ranking order we’d have to come to cost. The notion that RPO, by providing so many [...]

What metrics does your recruitment department track?

I recently sat in on a great presentation about six sigma processes and how it applies to call centers. I’m not technically on the operations side of call centers, but I have done a fair amount of work with them over the years, and still consult with many of them on the recruitment side of [...]

Myths, myths, and more myths (continued) #9

#9) You’ll lose control
This should probably be ranked number #1 or #2, but since we’re not going in any particular order here on the myths that surround recruitment process outsourcing, let’s get this one taken care of right from the start.
Part of the advantage of using RPO to drive your talent acquisition processes is the [...]

Myths, myths, and more myths

Ten to be exact.
One of the most surprising things that I encountered when I entered the brave new world of recruitment process outsourcing was the pervasive antipathy of recruiters to the services of our industry. Now notwithstanding the outsourcing/right-sourcing argument we talked about earlier, when I, or any RPO vendor for that matter, show up [...]

Recruiting in the year 2337

After my rather long missive about why you can’t sleep, part of which I contributed to, since at least 5 minutes of your life was expended READING that, and why Web 2.0 Recruiting might just be a “tad” over-hyped, I couldn’t resist including one of the funniest recruiting videos I’ve seen. Sometimes we just gotta [...]

And you wonder why you can’t sleep…

Back in the day, there was no such thing as recruiting. At least not in the formal sense. When companies had job openings, they advertised them, and candidates would submit written applications and/or resumes, which were screened by hiring managers who would decide who to bring in for interviews. And when senior positions became [...]

We paused for station identification…

There are a thousand advantages to working for a big company. Resources, capital, thought leadership, market share, benefits…the list goes on and on. There are also some downsides, of course, not the least of which is some of the red tape that can come from doing something relatively simple. Like a blog. So just as [...]

Outsourcing, or “right-sourcing”?

Let’s face it…RPO, or recruitment process outsourcing, can be the source of pretty intense arguments, both pro and con. And usually, the way it shakes out is that those who are selling RPO services are “pro” and those in the trenches are “con”, and it’s left to someone at an EVP or the C-suite level [...]

A blog you can use. Really.

Welcome to the latest recruiting blog on the Internet. According to Google, that makes this something like the three hundred millionth blog on the ‘net devoted to the subject that’s near and dear to our hearts, and judging by the numbers, it must be that every recruiter in the country is writing something like [...]