Posts tagged: Sourcing Talent

Booster Shot to Find Top Talent Through Social Recruiting

Are you ready for a booster shot in the arm to finding top talent? In delivering our brand new program on Social Recruiting to a Vistage Group, I was struck by how comfortable everyone was with social media, but had not yet started using these common sites and tools, like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, for [...]

Wednesday August 3rd, 2011 in , , , | No Comments »

You Can Shorten Your Hiring Process

Q. We are a mid-size company that doesn’t hire that often. It seems that when we want to hire it takes a long time just to find qualified candidates. Is there a way to shorten the time it takes to hire someone? A. Hiring fast rarely includes hiring the very best. The best way to [...]

Thursday May 12th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Sabbatical From Writing

Brad and I are back after a month-long sabbatical where we’ve been working diligently preparing for 2011. Contrary to popular opinion, we did not spend December with our feet up on the desk kicking back in Southern California. We’ve been working hard to improve our entire on-line presence. We’ve got an overwhelming number of new [...]

Thursday January 6th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Who’s On Your List to Recruit?

One of my favorite authors, Seth Godin, recently posted an article on his blog related to hiring. He posed the question that when you have a need “Who’s on your list?” Seth made the following point in an example where he referenced Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino working together: Ask any successful director for [...]

Thursday January 6th, 2011 in , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Why and How LinkedIn Can Bring More Than Just Top Talent To Your Company

LinkedIn is one of the social media sites that maybe as misunderstood as Twitter. CEO’s and key executives constantly ask me why they should be using either one. They haven’t been able to grasp the impact these can have on their company. The CEO or key executive doesn’t have to actually use either of them, [...]

Monday November 22nd, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Who Is Responsible For Hiring Top Talent In Your Company?

Was your answer HR or the hiring manager? I typically ask this question in our hiring workshops, seminars and Vistage presentations to CEOs and key executives. The answers are generally either HR or the hiring manager. Both of which I disagree with. I believe hiring top talent in any organization falls squarely on the CEO’s [...]

Thursday September 30th, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

Why Is Recruiting Sales People Like High School Sports?

In many companies, the recruitment process of trying to find top talent for their sales team resembles the process high school sports teams use to add players. They take whoever shows up at their doorstep and considers that the candidate pool. Discover in this audio program the key elements it takes to fish in deep [...]

Tuesday September 21st, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Is Your Website a Magnet OR a Turn-off for Talent

Brad and I recently did a radio show on this subject. You can download the entire broadcast of the radio show from our weekly Internet Radio Show on LaTALKRadio.com. By the way, did you know that you can access our ENTIRE Library of every radio show we’ve produced. At the end of every show, we [...]

Tuesday September 7th, 2010 in , , , , , , | No Comments »

Can Social Recruiting Help You Find Top Talent?

Social Recruiting – Everyone’s talking about it – no one’s doing it! What is Social Recruiting? Social Recruiting is using the various social networking sites, such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to improve the flow of top talent for current and future positions. This post is an introduction to some of the benefits and tactics [...]

Friday July 30th, 2010 in , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

You’re Running Out of Time to Upgrade Your Team

Have you taken action yet to identify which roles should be upgraded? In April, I put up a blog posting titled “Hiring 101 – Use the Recession to Upgrade” suggesting that you should be using the Job Market Recession to upgrade a few selected roles in your organization. I provided a few ideas and recommended [...]

Thursday July 1st, 2010 in , , , , , | No Comments »
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