Looking for Purple Squirrels? Try a “MOOC.”
If your recruiting team is like most today, you have countless job orders going unfilled. Why?
One reason is that more and more employers are looking for that perfect “Purple Squirrel” ...
Encourage Visionary Thinking at the Workplace
Visionary ideas are the core of business growth, and human resource managers who encourage creative thinking at the workplace may have a better chance of leading the organization to ...
Transformative, Not Transactional: Positioning Long-Term MSP Success
As global employers increasingly recognize the tangible benefits of flexible talent models – including the use of free agents and contingent workers – managed services providers ...
Sales Training Tip – Roll an 11
For many years, I’ve been using a very simple technique to train new sales personnel about the necessity of perseverance and positivity in the sales process. I’ve been told that ...
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days…
Sorry. Really. You’ve made it this far expecting something entertaining about recruiting and matchmaking, but this isn’t a post about an old Kate Hudson / Matthew McConaughey movie. ...
Not Enough Talent to Go Around
As far as real talent is concerned, demand will always exceed supply. Our global Talent Shortage Survey reports thousands of employers have difficulty filling jobs due to lack of available ...
Strategic Workforce Planning
When I think about complexities and challenges facing staffing, I think of it in terms of strategic staffing as an integrated part of workforce planning and talent management as a whole. ...
Getting the Most Value From Your MSP
When you implemented your MSP, you probably had very specific year-one and possibly year-two cost reduction targets. Now you’re three or more years in, and want to make sure you see ...
Appreciate Our Nurses
In a report released this week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), “The U.S. Nursing Workforce: Trends in ...
Want Better-Performing Temps? Onboard Them
Take job descriptions, take matched skills and abilities, take high scores for aptitude, fit, or technology testing — take all the indicators that point toward success for a temporary ...


