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Five Ways to Influence Hiring Managers in the Recruitment Process
Recruiters often complain that they struggle to get quality time with hiring managers and learn about their talent-related priorities in a proactive way. This is a legitimate complaint; if you can’t get time with a manager, how can you possibly be a...
The Most Important HR Metrics
The holy grail of HR seems to be the ability to monetize the value of talent-related investments and efforts. And it's been hard to do in a way that's meaningful enough to catch the attention of the C-suite.
Quality of Hire: Your Org's Top 10 Indicators
What is "quality of hire"? Like "workforce planning", the words can stop a conversation in it's track. But neither should. Defining and measuring Quality of Hire (QoH) is a essential responsibility of any Talent Acquisition function. After all, if...
Are You an HR Pro Being Asked to Lead Talent Acquisition? 6 Tips for Success
Check out this list of tips for new talent acquisition leaders - especially if you're coming from an HR Generalist role - to shorten your learning curve and drive meaningful results faster.
Talent Acquisition Org Design Best Practices
What’s the best way for recruiting teams to think about tackling hiring requisitions? First in, first out – like milk? Nah, I don’t think so; but surprisingly, many succumb to this approach in the face of hiring manager pressure and the absence of business-based prioritization.
Measuring Quality of Hire: How to Handle Common Challenges
No one would argue that the talent a company employs play in a crucial role in achieving organizational success. Given this fact then, why don’t more companies measure the quality of their talent?
Five Reasons Why Candidates Aren’t Applying to Your Jobs
There are many reasons why candidates aren't applying to jobs the way they did before the pandemic. A recent survey identified five key reasons for this (hint: 'being lazy and on unemployment' didn't make the list.)
Recruiting Process Outsourcing (RPO) Can Improve Hiring Results: Four Ways to Do It right
Recruiting Process Outsourcing firms (RPOs) often have a reputation for overpromising and under-delivering, but does it have to be that way?
Now is the Time to Measure Quality of Hire
Many leaders are concerned with quality of hire these days and for good reason: we've seen spikes in candidate ghosting, no shows on day one, early attrition, and poor candidate fit in the last few years. But "quality of hire" can be an annoying...
A High Volume Hiring Case Study: Improving Hiring Speed, Quality, 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.
How Do You Measure Quality of Hire in this Talent Marketplace?
In this full employment economy, finding and winning top talent for critical roles is a key business success factor. But if you’re still thinking about quality of hire in the old way (hiring manager surveys to assess ‘happiness’ with the recruiting team or managers' assessment of a new hire 30 days in), then you’re missing the chance to prove the value of Talent Acquisition in 2019 and beyond.
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.
Talent Acquisition Audit: Six Signs You Need One
Six circumstances where it makes sense to bring in outside, unbiased resources to conduct a talent acquisition audit.
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.
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...
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.
Are you in a War *ON* Talent or a War *FOR* Talent?
Here are eight clues for determining where your organization falls.
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.
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.
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.
