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Hank Stringer |
Global Talent Forces of Tomorrow
The changes in behavior, technology, demographic, natural resources and global competition are forcing businesses to strategically adapt to new ways to fill talent scarcity gaps. And the changes are coming fast. It is interesting to note how different companies around the world are sourcing talent to fill their needs. These clearly indicate changes for the immediate and possibly long term future. A few are concepts that many would not have forecast just a couple of years…
Keeping Talent's Attention
In my last article, I described the importance of Grabbing Talent’s Attention through rich media, transparency and relationships. This month we review a simple step in keeping talent’s attention. Before defining the step, I’d like to relate a story that helps me understand what it takes to accomplish sourcing and hiring talent. My daughter and son ride horses. Recently I took my son to his riding lesson and had the opportunity to sit with another parent…
Grabbing Talent’s Attention
There is a great deal written on the recruitment blogs about the lost process of “old school” recruiting. Recruiters who learned the business with just a phone and a list of companies to call learned how to source, contact and garner the attention of a working professional long enough to gain the trust and interest necessary to guide a prospective candidate through a recruiting experience that resulted in a new career for the recruit, and…
The Chief Talent Officer
Companies are quickly developing their strategic recruiting capabilities. A new type of Talent Leader is emerging at the executive and operational levels, and this role is clearly emerging as a critical component of any competitive business. The goal of recruiters and the organizations they work for is to have quality talent (Q-Talent) ready for current and future opportunities – a steady flow of the right people, ahead of the company’s demand for them. Picture an airport…
An Inefficient Search for Talent
In the mid-nineties, an entrepreneur focused on the early recruitment technology market visited the CEOs of Resumix and Restrak, the pioneering leaders of the space. The entrepreneur asked each the same question: “What will you do to your product to improve recruitment results?” Interestingly, both Lars Perkins of Restrak and Steve Cesinski of Resumix had the same answer: “We are building a better search...