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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business

If any story demonstrates how far employers will go in today’s fierce war for talent, the tale of Snapchat’s geofilter recruiting campaign is it. The fight for new recruits is intense — not just in the tech sector, but across all industries. ” asked the clever riff aimed at Uber workers. What’s the trick?

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Band Parents?—?The Ideal Ad Hoc Team Model?

Harmonious Workplaces

We can learn how nonprofits harness the power of volunteers most effectively and use that information to motivate people at work in a similar fashion to achieve great things from even small contributions. Effective Recruitment My wife coordinated the volunteer recruitment for the marching band.

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Raising Money the Old Fashioned Way

The Nonprofit Consultant

They call this one-on-one, in-person fundraising a return to raising money "the old-fashioned way." We were all recruited to be "activists" to gather signatures on petitions and get folks to join the organization. Old-fashioned" maybe, but you stick with what works. It was a great learning experience in so many ways.

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9 Talent Management Questions to Test If You are On the Right Track

LSA Global

If you truly want to attract, develop, engage and retain a high performing workforce, you have to break through talent management barriers – outmoded ways of thinking about talent in old-fashioned and ineffective ways. 75% or more of teams meet their performance goals. The Goal of Talent Management.

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Skip Engagment: Run ‘attitude adjustment’ sessions (starting with yourself).

Confessions of a Consultant

The currently fashionable way to do this (and management trends are a ‘fashion item’) is to secure employee engagement. On the Investment Banking side, new recruits regularly work 80+ hours each week (my nephew often slept under his desk or in a conference room in New York). On face value what’s not to like about this idea?

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team. LVMH’s Fashion Group, part of the massive French luxury products group, is one team that’s embracing this approach.

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If Only It Was So Easy

Martinka Consulting

It appears the interviewer overheard at least some of the conversation, didn’t say anything, and then told the recruiter how she didn’t like that conversation. During a recent meeting, someone was talking about how they were firing a customer. They talked for a while and the topics included why the person was leaving.