Performance-based Hiring Insights and Podcasts
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Hiring Pyramid
Just about all of us are familiar with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Abraham Maslow was a mid-20th century psychologist who studied the behavior of high-performing ...
Using Metrics to Achieve Win-Win Hiring Outcomes
Long, long ago in a career now nearly forgotten, I had the opportunity to work in a number of different types of high-volume manufacturing organizations ...
The Complete 2-Question Interview
Before I got into the training of recruiters and hiring managers and writing books about the trials and tribulations of all this, I was a ...
Use the 30% Solution to Turn Jobs into Careers
In a recent blog post, I suggested that sourcing and recruiting can be described using the metaphor of a bus. In some ways this is ...
Change How Your Hiring Manager Uses Job Descriptions (and Get a Few Hugs)
In a recent LinkedIn Influencer post I suggested that hiring managers should give their recruiters a few hugs for helping them find and hire stronger ...
This 2-Step Process Virtually Eliminates Interviewer Bias
There was an article in the WSJ describing how seasonal workers are being hired sight unseen. Well that’s not totally true since they are being heard via ...
A 7-Step Plan for Measuring & Improving Quality of Hire
Rather than assess the quality of person, assess the quality of person’s accomplishments. I recently wrote a post on how to calculate the ROI of ...
Diversity Hiring Doesn't Require Any Compromise
At SmartRecruiters’ Hiring Success recruiting conference in San Francisco someone suggested that too many people think diversity hiring requires the lowering of standards. At a recent ...
Hiring Without These Critical “Soft Skills” is a Recipe for Disaster
Having personally been involved in more than 2,000 different hiring situations over the past forty years and tracking the subsequent performance of many of those ...
Assessing Motivation Can Make or Break Your Next Hire — Here's How to Do It
In my 40+ years of recruiting, I’ve learned that recruiters often make a critical mistake in assessing a candidate for a position. Simply put, they ...
Leverage Your LinkedIn Network to Hire More Leaders
Leverage: Getting more output with less input. Leaders are force multipliers who get more done with and through people using some type of magical leverage. ...
Hiring for Performance Not Skills
Hiring for Performance Not Skills Frequently hiring managers make the excuse that they don’t have enough time to spend with the recruiter to discuss a ...
