Author: Kyle Lagunas
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Sourcing and CRM: 4 Candidate Relationship Management Fundamentals
As if talent acquisition teams didn’t have enough on their plates with finding qualified candidates and getting them in the door, they’re now expected to attract and engage talent on an ongoing basis.In order to accomplish this task while keeping up with their day-to-day responsibilities, some have drawn inspiration from customer relationship management techniques used by marketers and salespeople…
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Meet Cielo: A Global Brand for Global Talent Challenges
Last week in Milwaukee, I had the pleasure of joining the folks at Pinstripe & Ochre House for their annual client summit and analyst day. Right out of the gate, they had a major announcement to make: The two would become one under their new global brand identity, Cielo. Spanish for “sky,” Cielo captures the ambition…
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The Need for New Key Performance Indicators in Recruiting & Hiring
Last week, I mentioned that I’ve begun work on a new framework for high-performance talent acquisition. In many ways, it’s the culmination of all of the work I’ve done in my role here at Brandon Hall Group – and beyond, as I’m drawing on years of experience in operations. The reason being, a framework captures…
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The Five Elements of A High Performing Sourcing Strategy
Of all the stages of talent acquisition, sourcing is perhaps the most dynamic – and this is evident in how rapidly the use cases for sourcing technology are evolving and changing. The emergence of social technology has had an especially profound impact. The Source Stage is the culmination of all efforts to find and engage…
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Size Doesn’t Matter: Recruiting Technology for Small Business Hiring
As many of you know, Brandon Hall Group launched its first annual Talent Acquisition Benchmark Survey at the start of the year. In the time since, I’ve been slicing and dicing the data – by levels of effectiveness, by industry, and most recently by company size. Across the board, survey respondents indicated hiring better talent is their highest talent…
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The Importance of Measurement in Recruitment Marketing
A couple of weeks ago, I met with the recruiting and talent leadership from a local tech startup that’s entered a period of hyper growth. They had read a report I published earlier this year on High-Performance Recruitment Marketing, and wanted to get my thoughts on how they can prioritize efforts to attract more talent while…
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When Will We Stop Talking About Social Recruiting?
Social technology has had a huge impact on the enterprise. From the way we do business to the way we find business – it’s changed many things.In recruiting, it’s changed the way we source talent, the way we assess candidates, not to mention the way candidates assess us. There are still many organizations only dabbling in social…
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Think Recruiting Is Sales? Think Again.
I often hear people likening recruiters to salespeople. As they see it, there are a lot of similarities between the two: the structure of their performance metrics is similar, basic workflows are similar, etc. I’m sure recruiters and salespeople alike would argue there is far more that distinguishes each function – and I’m sure they…
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The Problem With Middle of the Road Recruiting
Last month, Brandon Hall Group launched its first annual Talent Acquisition Benchmarking Survey and collected data on the priorities, processes, and plans of hiring organizations for 2014. I’ve spent the last few weeks slicing and dicing the data. In trying to find the most compelling stories and identify the most important trends, I had to look at…
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True Grit: Taking The True Measure of A Candidate
As an analyst, much of your week is spent in conversation: Conversations with subject matter experts, conversations with solution providers and practitioners – even conversations with yourself. Usually these conversations provide much-needed context for trends you’re seeing in your research (for example, my forthcoming perspective on the state of talent acquisition today). My favorite conversations,…