Lou Adler's Recruiter's Wall - Straight Talk on Today's Recruiting Issues

Straight Talk on Today's Recruiting Issues

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HANDOUT for Jan 14 2010 webinar - Plan on Hiring the Top-third in 2010
- Recording of the Adler/Jobs2Web webinar on Dec 9 2009 regarding how to maximize quality of hire with new sourcing.
- Revised HANDOUT for webinar Using Talent Scorecard to Calculate ROI and here's the RECORDING.
- Recording of Oct 29, 2009 - Quality of Hire ROI webinar.
- Recording of Webinar: Using LinkedIn to Source Passive Candidates

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Mary McGuire replied to Lou Adler's discussion 'Crazy Ad Wizard Comments'

Great to see a creative approach to a critical, but often mundane, piece of the recruiting process. Agree with a couple of other testers that the current state doesn't 'play well' with technology positions, e.g., Sr. Web Application Developer, Sr. E…

39 minutes ago

Sarah, Beth Shook and Andy Hodson joined Lou Adler's Recruiter's Wall

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Mark Tindle replied to Lou Adler's discussion 'Crazy Ad Wizard Comments'

Lou, this is such a great idea and I was really excited to be a beta tester. Conceptually the tool solves a fundamental problem that most recruiters cannot or do not have the time to solve in creating creative job ads that are actually stimulating a…

4 hours ago

Lou Adler replied to Lou Adler's discussion 'Recruiting competencies vs. performance - Source: Recruiting Roundtable'

I can't tell from the public data how large the sample was, but knowing the quality of the group - The Recruiting Roundtable - it had to be statistically relevant. I assume 2000-5000 data points.

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Brenden Wright replied to Lou Adler's discussion 'Recruiting competencies vs. performance - Source: Recruiting Roundtable'

Lou, Very interesting indeed. Question: can you give us some data on the sample size of this survey? Or the source data? Just curious. Thanks.

7 hours ago

Travis commented on Travis's blog post 'Is there a universal definition for "quality recruiting"?'

Thanks Lou. I appreciate the feedback!

8 hours ago

Sourcing and Recruiting

The purpose of this site will be to discuss evarything related to recruiting, sourcing, and hiring. Join the fray - it will make you a better recruiter. As far as I'm concerned the key to great recruiting is getting better and trying new things.

- Lou Adler

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Recruiting competencies vs. performance - Source: Recruiting Roundtable 11 Replies

This chart is revealing. It suggests that the two most importance recruiter competencies for improving quality of hire are developing a strong relationship with the hiring manager and job knowledge.…

Tagged: manager, hiring, skills, recruiter, sourcing

Started by Lou Adler in Strategy. Last reply by Lou Adler 6 hours ago.

Crazy Ad Wizard Comments 7 Replies

Beta users of Crazy Ad Wizard post your comments here. Here's the first page of the wizard. With this information you'll be able to create a great email or posting. If you'd like to try this out for…

Started by Lou Adler in Sourcing. Last reply by Mary McGuire 39 minutes ago.

Recruiting video tips and tactics

Creating a recruiting video for your company is one of the new ways to tap new media to recruit. Its main goal should be as an employment branding tool that showcases your employees and give a sense…

Started by Chris Russell in Strategy Feb 2.

Sourcing Quiz. Practice Boolean and Win a Guest Pass to SourceCon

Dear All, If you haven’t registered for SourceCon yet, here is your chance to attend it for free by submitting your answers to the Sourcing Quiz (#SourceQuiz). Please email your submissions to contes…

Tagged: Sourcing, Quiz, Strings, Boolean, ERE

Started by Irina Shamaeva in Sourcing Feb 2.

Amazon is hiring Recruiting Managers, Recruiters and Sourcers

Heads up that Amazon is adding a large number of new roles in our Global Talent Acquisition organization to fuel our growth. These roles are based in sunny Seattle and we are willing to relo for the…

Tagged: sourcing, talent, acquisition, sourcer, source

Started by Brian Krueger in Sourcing Feb 1.

Use multi-criteria to engage, negotiate and close candidates 1 Reply

Here's a chart from our Recruiter Boot Class indicating the typical criteria candidates use to compare jobs and select one over the other. I suggest giving something like this to candidates early in…

Tagged: negotiating, closing, recruiting

Started by Lou Adler in Sourcing. Last reply by Shane Mincer Jan 27.

Blog Posts

Is there a universal definition for "quality recruiting"?

Recruiting, as an industry, might be one of the largest “perception businesses” I have ever seen. Through my travels in the Recruitment Process Outsourcing industry I have been invited into a number of corporations (6 Fortune 500 clients, 8 privately held businesses & a handful of mid-sized companies) and regardless of the s

… Continue

Posted by Travis on February 8, 2010 at 11:06am — 2 Comments

Budgets are tight…how do I effectively invest in Job Boards and Social Media?

I was retained by a client in December of 2009 to help build a “North American Talent Acquisition Strategy” and the subsequent “action plan” to implement what we designed. This organization is a mid-sized manufacturing organization and they have 900 employees with the intent of conducting 125 internal and/or external hires in 2010. During these talks, we engaged in conversations that circled around social media and how to engage these popular tools as a recruitment branding engine and prospectin… Continue

Posted by Travis on February 1, 2010 at 6:59am

ATS possible...

Boy is your question a tuffie. You might look at "Catsone". They've been at it for at least four years, and they know what's of value... no doubt. And they try to keep it very simple. Price is very reasonable as well.
Good luck,
Brian

http://www.catsone.com

Posted by brian stockman on January 29, 2010 at 6:40am

Discipline.....yes, it can be a pain in the #$%!

The metro Detroit affiliate of the Society of Human Resource Management (HRAGD) held their January chapter meeting in Dearborn, Michigan on January 19, 2010 and 50 of us had a nice breakfast and were treated to a discussion around building your “personal brand” led by the Director of Leadership and Organizational Development at Amerisure, Matt Bertman. Matt did a nice job laying out the importance of building your own brand and how once built, you can begin to increase energy and efforts relativ… Continue

Posted by Travis on January 26, 2010 at 5:41am — 1 Comment

Jobs in Pods Launches Recruitment Video Distribution Service

Jobs in Pods, the audio jobcast company, is proud to announce the launch of their new Recruitment Video Distribution Service (RViDS) for employers. Traditionally, recruiting videos have just been accessible on the company career page but this new syndication service will distribute it across the internet on the top video sharing sites and podcast directories.

“Employers are increasingly looking to get their media into the hands of passive candidates for branding and recruiting purposes.… Continue

Posted by Chris Russell on January 20, 2010 at 12:33pm

Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting My Career

Reading 20 Things I Wish I Had Known When Starting Out in Life by Leo Babauta inspired me to write this post. However, rather than referring to all the aspects of my life, I narrowed it down to my career.

I made my share of mistakes and I learned some lessons the hard way. There are some things that I wish I had known since my first year in University. Why then? Because I would hav… Continue

Posted by M on January 7, 2010 at 7:30am