Preemptive Calibration – A New Step in Candidate Sourcing Preemptive calibration, also known as pre-referencing, is common practice in senior executive search, one that sourcing teams should emulate. When was the last time you included a step in your candidate...
Passive Candidate Data: Sourcing Deep Data is Best Passive candidate sourcing for candidates is difficult for corporate recruiting teams to scale. The passive candidate data is shallow. It rarely provides the depth of information needed to determine whether a...
Steve Jobs understood better than most executives in our generation that “less is more”. . .The Internet is serving up a near infinite number of job applicants and potential candidates. And compared to the opacity that clouded the recruiting process up until now, that seismic shift represents a tremendous opportunity for talent organizations, if it doesn’t kill them first.
LinkedIn Talent Pool Overfished A growing number of employers are investing in LinkedIn recruiting licenses and, for less important roles, it can be an effective tool. However, for senior executive, mission critical, and hard-to-fill technology roles, employers are...
A while ago, HR thought leader Dr. John Sullivan published a list of the dumbest things recruiters do, asking readers to choose their top five from a list of thirty. (Here are the results of that survey.) Those lacking a sense of humor may find Sullivan’s...