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At least a couple of companies, neither too well known yet, have a different take on a background check: they’re having job candidates take a turn in the driver’s seat when it comes to the whole process.
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It?s no secret that many organizations are moving away from the traditional hierarchical and functional way of working, toward a more matrixed structure where people report to multiple bosses and work on multiple teams with colleagues in different functions and locations, if not different time zones and cultures. While this model can be effective, it?s [...]
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About a month ago, I was at ERE and a session caught my attention: ?A Framework for Improving and Measuring Quality of Hire.” I was delighted. Would talent management be ready for it? Would this be the turning point for the profession? My skepticism has been high; over 10 years ago I wrote one of [...]
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Those of you who happened to be looking for an attractive date this morning may have noticed you can now find a date and a new employee on the same site. No, not eHarmony — that’s another story altogether. I’m talking about beautifulpeople.com, which now has a link on the upper right of its home [...]
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Recruiting is a unique field because it has no entry barriers. Unlike most professions, you can become a corporate recruiter without any formal certification, registration, recruiting experience, or even a college degree in the discipline. Because becoming a recruiter requires no formal qualifications, you probably won?t be surprised to find out that in practice, there [...]
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That video I mentioned playing up jobs in Portland is out, and pretty much everything you picture when you picture startup jobs is in there. (Think skateboards, gourmet coffee drinks, cats, dogs, people shooting each other with plastic guns, and lots of technology.) It’s all aimed at attracting more employees to Portland, particularly, though not [...]
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The San Antonio Spurs have a keen eye for talent. They do a lot of things right and a lot of those principles are applicable to how we in corporate America recruit and retain employees and run our organizations. Starting with recruiting, the Spurs have a keen eye for talent. They do not chase super-flashy, [...]
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Who are the fattest workers? Yes, yes, I know. That is so politically incorrect, but CareerBuilder started it. In 2005 the careers company did a weight gain survey discovering 47 percent of workers admitted to gaining weight on the job. That percentage hasn’t much changed over the years, though this year only 41 percent admitted [...]
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A recent analysis of who is winning the talent war in social media showed some surprising results. In particular, the strong showing of the military compared to large private sector companies. Who knew the public sector could beat Google at its own game? We?re used to mocking government departments for their slow uptake of technology [...]
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Try this for your next hire: have a manager come up with a list of about 20 different traits she’d like to have in the new employee who’ll take the job. Consider the work environment and performance expectations: What skills and traits does an employee need to possess to excel at the job? Be specific. [...]
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Add Portland, Oregon, to the list of cities, territories, and nations making special efforts to bring talent — particularly tech talent — to town. For those keeping score at home, I’m talking about places like Nashville, Austin, Detroit, Yukon, and even Ireland.
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Among the startups you may not yet know of: Good.co (not to be confused with The Good Jobs or Goood Jobs). Good.co, in beta, asks people 15 questions in about three minutes about their “professional personality” and connects them to jobs that fit. You then get a description of your “archetype” (mine’s on the left [...]
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Too often company job descriptions are filled with hyperbole and trite sound bites like “work-hard, play-harder” and focus more on details such as lunch and snacks than the job itself. A job description is your critical first impression when recruiting, and if you lose them before they even apply you’re operating at a steep disadvantage. [...]
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What did your company spend on hiring last year? If you?re really not sure, you?ve got plenty of company. Given the decentralized talent acquisition model that many companies use, it?s nearly impossible to pinpoint the actual spending — and the true return on that investment. This is just one rather startling finding that we confirmed [...]
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Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. –Mark Twain It’s been about a month now since my accident. Since then I have received an enormous outpouring of support. So many of you have written, called, and contributed to my care that I don’t know where to begin. The list of those I need to [...]
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After years of unsuccessfully courting two of the world’s preeminent neuroscientists with offers of more money, bigger and better facilities, a larger budget, and almost anything else they wanted, the University of Southern California finally closed the deal last month when its top recruiters sold them on lifestyle. Poaching Arthur Toga and Paul Thompson and [...]
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U.S. Cellular is helping employees losing jobs in the sale of some segments of its business to Sprint by setting up a transition portal. A recruitment advertising/communications agency called Shaker helped develop the portal, aimed at 765 “associates” impacted; Kensington International, an outplacement firm, also partnered. U.S. Cellular is also working with a group called [...]
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Remember George Costanza from the old Seinfeld show? He had problems with jobs and women, which makes sense to anyone who believes job seeking is like dating, which is pretty much most everyone who has done both. For you doubters and naysayers, proof is on the way from none other than eHarmony. Late next year, [...]
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That marriage of employee referrals with social media first mentioned on these pages three years ago and chronicled with new launches and updates many times since continues, as SuccessFactors works on a social-media/employee referral tool as part of its recruiting product. This system suggests people who your employees might know — using their Facebook and [...]
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The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing by your own. –Michael Korda Losing a great candidate is a painful and disheartening experience. I for one, beat myself and wonder what I could have done differently as I do a cerebral post mortem. Sadly, [...]
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