Posts Tagged ‘Hiring Top Talent

An Executive Recruiter’s Guide to Hiring Top Talent
Step 4: Interviewing

The interview process is one of mutual due diligence.  The analogy to dating is completely overused, but so apropos. Like dating, an interview is one of the few situations where we’re selling and buying at the same time. Companies are selling the candidate on the benefits of working for them while they’re assessing the viability [...]

Hiring, Hiring Top Talent, Interviewing

An Executive Recruiter’s Guide to Hiring Top Talent
Step 3: Recruiting

In the “Sourcing” post we talked about the “WHO” – creating a list of active and passive candidates who are prospects for our search.  Now we’ll talk about the “HOW.”  For this post we’re using a narrow definition of recruiting – converting prospects into candidates – rather than the generic definition that refers to the [...]

Hiring, Hiring Top Talent, Recruiting, Talent Management

An Executive Recruiter’s Guide to Hiring Top Talent
Step 2: Sourcing

Come out, come out wherever you are! We’ve defined what we’re looking for…now the fun starts! We get to go find them! We all want to hire the best person for the job.  There’s a catch, though. At any point in time, and depending on whose statistics you’re reading, 10-20% of the workforce  is actively pursuing new jobs.  [...]

Hiring, Hiring Top Talent, Recruiting