Tackling Recruitment Leadership Challenges — One Issue at a Time
Each month, the Journal of Corporate Recruiting Leadership focuses in-depth on a particular challenge affecting recruiting and staffing functions today, and industry leaders and practioners share their stories and solutions for addressing it.
Past Issues
Past issues are available on special order for $75 a copy. Call (212) 671-1181 or email help@ere.net if you would like to order one or more copies of the issues listed below.
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June 2011
- A guide to "Recruiting 3.0" ... the changing nature of the recruiting field; high-volume/bulk hiring; assessments and turnover; understanding job candidates better.
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May 2011
- Decision-making; assessments; college recruiting; budgeting; teacher hiring.
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April 2011
- Gender diversity; emotional intelligence in leaders; technical screening; what Gen Y wants; the dot-jobs domain.
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March 2011
- Sourcing and source of hire; sales hiring; behavioral interviews; competencies; more.
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February 2011
- Workforce planning; engaging leaders; social media; video resumes and video interviews.
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December 2010 / January 2011
- Recruiting leaders, professors, consultants, and others offer advice to recruiting directors for 2011.
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November 2010
- Budgeting; working with hiring managers; motivation and rewards; recruiting with confidence; age discrimination; succession planning and recruitment.
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October 2010
- Employee referrals; employment branding; hiring fast vs. hiring slow; hot marketing applications for recruiting.
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September 2010
- Advertising your jobs on job boards; navigating credit-check laws; organizational culture and recruiting; the buy or rent question in talent acquisition.
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July/August 2010
- The impact of the recession; corporate career sites; identifying high-potential employees; social media and background checks; corporate culture; other legal issues with social media.
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June 2010
- Employment branding; recruiting in Europe; tax credits; recruitment training; more.
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May 2010
- Interviewing guide; executive search (in-house, or outsourced?); social media at RSM McGladrey; social media at Electronic Arts; the "virtual job tryout"; diversity.
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April 2010
- The changing recruiting profession; doing more with less money; unintentional bias in interviewing; what millennials want; getting more out of your sourcers; being a Fortune "best place to work."
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March 2010
- Social media ROI; workforce planning; Hispanic-candidate recruiting; turnover and other benchmarks.
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February 2010
- Communicating with retention in mind; social media; onboarding technology; internship programs; internal executive search; quality (not quantity) metrics.
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December/January 2010
- Diversity; the state of the recruiting field; assessing recruiters; outsourcing recruitment; time to hire.
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November 2009
- Succession planning tools; the role of emotions in recruiting; best practices in implementing a talent acquisition system; searching for A-players; interview with Jason Warner.
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October 2009
- A "follow the sun" recruiting model (an alternative to full life-cycle recruiting); pre-employment assessments; social media; tattoos, pierces, and discrimination; executive compensation; privacy laws.
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September 2009
- Recruiting metrics; whether star employees pay off; department structures; getting good customer service after your technology purchase.
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July/August 2009
- Recruiting in an uncertain economy; employer branding; avoid hiring temporary workers; becoming more strategic and more aligned with the business.
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June 2009
- Getting started with workforce planning; recruiting's role in workforce planning; planning case studies; corporate career websites; employment branding.
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May 2009
- The uneasy relationship between HR generalists and staffing; just-in-time hiring will never be achieved using "requisitions-per-recruiter" as Your model; employee referrals at Accenture and Seagate; job simulations.
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April 2009
- Employer branding; analytics; hourly employees; millennials' career plans; 5 keys to a competitive recruiting edge.
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March 2009
- Partnering with third-party recruiters; what you can learn from military recruiting; making selection decisions; hiring teams.
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February 2009
- Best practices on a tight budget; government rules about online recruiting; profile of IBM's recruiting.
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December/January 2009
- 2009 Outlook; the future labor market; background check laws.
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November 2008
- Becoming a more influential recruiting leader; a new way to use employee assessments; an in-depth look at recruiting technology; recruiting at the U.S. Census; recruiting in Russia.
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October 2008
- Onboarding; gender issues in hiring; quality-of-hire metrics; hiring candidates with characteristics similar to your top performers.
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September 2008
- Immigration; preparing for future recruiting/workplace trends; using contingent recruiters; sourcing; high-volume hiring at the U.S. border patrol.
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July/August 2008
- Best practices in diversity; recruitment outsourcing; the legalities of recruiting via social networks; executive search.
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June 2008
- Employment branding; running recruitment like a business; using marketing to achieve recruiting objectives; campus recruiting.
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May 2008
- Employee referrals (article by an ERE Recruiting Excellence Award winner); prescreening and assessment; interview with VP of HR at Scripps Healthcare; physical and psychological testing; interview with Herman Miller executive about talent management.
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April 2008
- Recruiting in a tough economy (interviews with experts on recruiting in downturns); learning from baseball’s talent acquisition practices; military recruiting; mergers and acquisitions.
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March 2008
- Reporting on recruitment to financial markets; Latino recruiting; Chevron’s staffing; reducing time to hire; large study of high school and college students.
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February 2008 | Vol. 3, Issue 5
- Employment branding; building an effective recruiting function; unfair-competition legal claims.
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December 2007/January 2008 | Vol. 3, Issue 4
- A 2008 outlook issue, with predictions related to the economy, recruiting technology, advice for recruiting leaders, and more (from experts on Wall Street, professors, recruiting-industry leaders, and others). Also: shedding excess recruiting "wait time."
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November 2007 | Vol. 3, Issue 3
- Employment branding; a technology transformation; college recruiting; legal issues when outsourcing.
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October 2007 | Vol. 3, Issue 2
- Recruiting best-practice award-winners; business networking and recruiting; family responsibilities discrimination; pre-employment testing.
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September 2007 | Vol. 3, Issue 1
- Globalizing a recruiting function; ramping up at a growing company; sourcing.
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July/August 2007 | Vol. 2, Issue 10
- Workforce planning (with valuable charts to tear out); contingent workers; metrics; more.
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June 2007 | Vol. 2, Issue 9
- Employee referral programs; pre-employment assessments; college recruiting; English-language requirements.
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May 2007 | Vol. 2, Issue 8
- Identifying the recruiting department's customer (hiring managers, employees, or senior management); recruiting technology; a strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-threats analysis of your department; pre-employment inquiries.
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April 2007 | Vol. 2, Issue 7
- Building Pipelines; Taking the Administration Out of Staffing; What You Need to Know About Compensation; Web Accessibility (Careers Sites); The Container Store
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March 2007 | Vol. 2, Issue 6
- Lobbying Senior Management; International Recruiting; Workforce Planning
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February 2007 | Vol. 2, Issue 5
- High-Volume Recruiting; Six Sigma; Coca-Cola; Raiding From Competitors; Recruiting in Russia
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Dec. 2006 / Jan. 2007 | Vol. 2, Issue 4
- Hiring Older Employees; Active vs. Passive Candidates; 2007 Outlook; Screening and Assessment
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November 2006 | Vol. 2, Issue 3
- Recruiting Leadership and Strategy; Also, Hiring Veterans
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October 2006 | Vol. 2, Issue 2
- Strategies in recruiting for dispersed workforces
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September 2006 | Vol. 2, Issue 1
- Optimizing the value and effectiveness of your recruitment technology; increasing diversity
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July/August 2006 | Vol. 1, Issue 10
- International and global recruiting; managing a virtual workforce
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June 2006 | Vol. 1, Issue 9
- Employer branding; pre-employment assessments
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May 2006 | Vol. 1, Issue 8
- Resource management and deployment; college recruiting
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April 2006 | Vol. 1, Issue 7
- Workforce planning; background checks
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March 2006 | Vol. 1, Issue 6
- Creating and implementing recruiting strategy
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February 2006 | Vol. 1, Issue 5
- Strategies and best practices for high volume hiring; legal issues with global recruiting
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Dec. 2005/Jan. 2006 | Vol. 1, Issue 4
- Outsourcing strategies and tactics; thought leaders' projections for 2006
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November 2005 | Vol. 1, Issue 3
- Creating and demonstrating value of your recruitment team using metrics
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October 2005 | Vol. 1, Issue 2
- Structuring and organizing your recruitment function
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September 2005 | Vol. 1, Issue 1
- How to improve the effectiveness of your recruiting processes