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Tips to Identify Whether Your Culture will be a Fit for the Candidate Companies often hire for skills and fire for fit. I know you are totally aware of that! Before spending time sharing a lot of information about your unique culture, as tempting as that is, ask questions that …

Bad Hire: Calculate what it Really Costs! This is an interesting calculator to help your hiring managers really get the cost of a bad hire and see the value of the strategies you are putting in place. Everyone says they “know” bad hire costs, but showing people real albeit estimated …

Do a variation of the things Mark Suster discusses in his article, Why Recruiting Isn’t Over When an Employee Accepts Your Offer, to to help ensure you don’t get one of those calls where the candidate is letting you know they are changing their mind, and are not going to take your …

Even if you work in a famous and/or fabulous company, you may have challenges getting enough great candidates for certain positions. Hiring managers don’t always understand that “famous and/or fabulous” isn’t enough to source and land the great ones who are in demand. This is where you can have some …

This works the first time and every time. Get the information and decisions you need without having to push back or conducting one of those  email and call campaigns which just drive you and your hiring manager crazy. https://www.theconsultativerecruiter.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Give-me-a-Commitment.pdf           Let’s talk about how you can be sure that …

How to Work with Hiring Managers who Just Want to See More & More Resumes “I’ll know it when I see it” is often code for “I’m not really sure what I am looking for.” This analysis helps them–and you! When you do a launch conversation with your hiring manager, …

Over the last few months I’ve been doing a lot of searches (so obviously it means working with a lot of hiring managers) and managing a team of recruiters. We were working on a multi-position recruiting project for mid level managers for a large entertainment company. So it was a …

There are a variety of reasons you may hear from hiring managers or even yourself as to why you don’t need to do the launch meeting on a particular search. You may also be good at coming up with reasons that give you permission to avoid the launch meeting. Ignore …

I bet I’m not the only one who has seen job descriptions that say something like “manages a team” but nothing about that team. This is one of those totally-nondescriptive phrases in job descriptions where you really should ask the hiring manager for the details. It’s easy to skip doing that …

Both things make them angry. The first I’ve heard; the second I know for sure. I don’t know personally about the gorilla aversion to smiling, but I’m very familiar with the hiring manager aversion to being told to “follow the process”. Be nice if that was all it took to …