by Ira Wolfe | Aug 6, 2015 | B2B Articles, Recruiting Process, Recruitment
For starters companies need to recruit job candidates like they are very important customers. That’s not rhetoric or a marketing slogan. They really are important customers! According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, fifty-eight (58) percent of applicants are less...
by Ira Wolfe | Jul 29, 2015 | Recruiting Process, Recruitment
Candidate abandonment: If management understood anything about it, they would be livid. It’s the debilitating metric that HR hopes never sees the light of day. The trouble is that few companies track it. Most pay no attention despite the fact that high rates indicate...
by Ira Wolfe | Jul 26, 2015 | Recruiting Process, Recruitment
After clicking submit on a job application, more than half of applicants sit and wait like abandoned lovers waiting for the phone to ring. Many companies seem to have adopted the foolish practice of “ghosting” when it comes to dealing with job applicants....
by Ira Wolfe | Jul 6, 2015 | Recruiting Process, Recruitment
You might think that with all the trouble companies are having finding enough qualified and skilled workers that the recruiting function would be working like a well-oiled machine! Think again! Recruiting is broken and management should just hang an “out of order”...
by Ira Wolfe | Jun 25, 2015 | Recruiting Process, Recruitment
In many organizations, the success of recruiting effort is measured by how quickly HR can post a job opening and fill it. Discussions between management and HR about how that success is measured and improvements made are laced with anecdotes, hunches, and ambiguity....
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 3, 2014 | Hiring Process, Recruiting Process, Recruitment
How important is company culture when it comes to hiring success? Part of the answer comes from a study published in the Harvard Business Journal. The authors investigated why so many top performers that move from company to company often perform more like comets than...
