Organizations tend to create expectations based on their culture. In advising organizations over the last year, I’ve suggested that the biggest challenge in understanding cultural differences entails understanding their own. I’d wager that most organizations lack a clear grasp of their culture. This lack of understanding can create all sorts of talent management difficulties as…
Sometimes simple is the best recruitment strategy. (h/t Martin Lee)
Over the last few years, I’ve attempted to provide readers with a basic understanding of Latino culture, and how it might influence Latinos in the workplace. Understanding the nuances of Latino culture can provide organizations additional opportunities to attract, support, and develop Latino talent. Since starting this blog three years ago, I’ve often shared that…
According to a recent study by Reppler, over 90% recruiters use social media to “weed” out potential candidates. Interesting on a couple of fronts. First, that a social media business that helps job seekers to “clean up” their online presence even exists – wow. Second, that organizations (recruiters), are using social media as a tool…
I spent a lot of time over the holiday thinking about social media, and how it will impact all aspects of our lives. I’m a heavy Twitter user but made an effort over the last few weeks to delve more into Facebook to connect with family, friends, and organizations. At the same time, like many…
How is the economic environment impacting college recruiting? Interesting article via DealBook about Occupy Wall Street protestors demonstrating against banks coming to recruit on-campus. … a junior at Yale who attended, said that although he hoped to land a job on Wall Street upon graduation, he did not necessarily plan to spend his entire career…
College grads hoping to make it to Wall Street as consultants are facing the realities of the current economy: Several large firms are not recruiting new entry-level analysts for their investment banking divisions this fall, having filled their entire incoming class with last summer’s interns. At the University of Pennsylvania, whose Wharton School is the…
The representation of Latinos in the federal workforce is an issue discussed a few times via this blog. Some movement by President Obama on this via a recent executive order asking all agencies for road maps to increase diversity. According to Government Executive: Recruiting young Hispanics for federal jobs will be vital, with large numbers…
One important reason the public sector has a hard time recruiting the best and brightest – via Economic Policy Institute: When looking at total compensation including employer-provided benefits, this gap narrowed but the private sector workers still earned $2,001 more per year than public sector workers ($71,109 in total compensation, versus $69,108). This gap was…
Fascinating to see how recruitment has evolved into creating effective Boolean searches to find the “right candidate.” Check out this service. Amazing. There’s nothing like crafting a Boolean equation to find a software engineer with every single requirement and a few of the “nice-to-haves” only to discover that somewhere in those 193 characters you’ve got…
