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How to Use a Req Load Calculator for Recruiters
The number of reqs a recruiter works has a direct impact on the speed, cost and quality of their hiring outcomes. Too many hiring reqs results in poor quality - skipped intake meetings, little or no sourcing of candidates, short-shrifting the...
Interviewing Isn’t Enough: The Best Way to Hire Recruiters Now
Struggling to hire recruiters who excel beyond the interview? Old school style interviews don’t cut it when it comes to assessing critical TA skills like prioritization, judgment, and influencing others. Discover In-Box Dash, an AI-powered solution that simulates real-world recruiting challenges, providing you with a fast, accurate way to assess and develop your team. A fast, accurate and cost-effective way to elevate your talent acquisition game, brought to you by TGA.
Our June ‘24 Newsletter: Chock Full of Talent News
In case you missed it, here's our June '24 newsletter . . . talent insights that have a long shelf life.
Simplifying Workforce Planning: Practical Tips for HR Leaders
In today's data-rich landscape, workforce planning is essential for HR leaders to identify talent-related priorities and investments. While tools like Visier and Tableau provide instant and slick access to data, the challenge lies in ensuring its accuracy, deciphering its true meaning and turning it into actionable plans. By focusing on key metrics such as attrition rates and tenure distributions, HR leaders can create directionally-accurate workforce plans that can evolve over time to enable their organizations navigate the most complex talent marketplace we've ever known. This article details a roadmap that will help HR leaders build a simple workforce plan that will allow them to address the most important people-related trends in their organization, now and in the future.
Let’s Modernize Talent Acquisition Before Jumping on the AI Train
HR and Talent Acquisition teams often lack the necessary foundation to make AI truly effective because of undefined processes, ambiguous roles and unclear goals. So before delving into AI-driven solutions, TA needs to build its foundation: clear strategies, well-defined and differentiated processes, supporting org design and data-based measures of success. Only then it can be determined where AI can add the most value.
The Most Important Recruitment Metric: Quality of Hire
At the end of the day, Talent Acquisition is only as good as the people they hire.
Our Dec ‘23 Newsletter: Chock Full of Talent News
In case you missed it, here's our December 2023 newsletter . . . talent insights that have a long shelf life.
Hiring Manager Satisfaction Surveys: The Worst Thing to (Still) Happen to Talent Acquisition
Hiring managers rating recruiters on how well they filled their job does nothing but reinforce arcane and counter-productive behaviors. Rather than asking: "Do you like us? Were we responsive and pleasant? Did you like our candidates?", Talent Acquisition teams should be measured on hiring speed and quality. Note: by "quality" we mean how well did new hires stay in the role and how well did they perform. Because, like it or not, if TA isn't hiring people who stay and perform, something is amiss. Hiring managers, in turn, will *really* like recruiters if they hire top talent who stay longer than their predecessors. But, if you just can't let these surveys go, read on for tips for best positioning these surveys.
Where the Talent Went and What To Do About It
Despite the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic, hiring and retention remain a significant challenge for businesses. Factors contributing to this shortage include demographic shifts, declining birthrates, and lower labor force participation rates. Here are four strategies to address this issue. And do it now, because it's not going to get easier anytime soon.
Re-Engineering Recruiting: Tips for Assessing and Improving your Talent Acquisition Function
Now might be the optimal time to re-engineer your recruiting processes. Start by objectively determining which metrics are most important to your business, how to evaluate them and the best approach for improving these outcomes.
The Most Effective Recruitment Process in the Toughest Talent Marketplace
It’s a trick: the most effective recruitment process isn’t one - it's multiple processes, differentiated and highly engineered. Because in the most challenging talent marketplace that most of us have ever worked in, we can't wing it anymore - nor can we build our processes based on what we've always done, or what hiring managers demand.
Are you in a War *ON* Talent or a War *FOR* Talent?
Here are eight clues for determining where your organization falls.
How to Improve Recruiting: Begin with a SWOT Analysis
Need to figure out how to improve hiring speed, quality and diversity? Begin with one of the most tried-and-true methods to assessing strengths and weaknesses: a SWOT framework for recruiting. Learn how this method can help you get started the right way.
A High Volume Hiring Case Study: Improving Hiring Speed, Quality and Cost
The Challenge: Improve the quality of hiring high volume, customer service-oriented front line employees. In turn, increase speed to hire and reduce overall hiring costs.
