“Attract quickly, hire slowly.” That sentiment comes from Dave McClure, venture capitalist and founding partner at 500 Startups, an Internet start-up seed fund and incubator program in Mountain View, Calif. He was part of a panel discussion on recruiting at the War for Talent event this week, in San Francisco. For me, that phrase epitomizes how company brands [...]
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The quick and the slow of the multifaceted brand
Posted: 11th May 2012 by Kevin W. Grossman in Business-to-Business (B2B), Economics, Employment Brand, Marketing Communications, Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, Workplace CultureTags: brand marketing, economics, employment brand, talent acquisition
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The future of workplace flexibility is the woman (I bet)
Posted: 8th May 2012 by Kevin W. Grossman in Career Management, Economics, Human Resources, Leadership, Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, Workplace CultureTags: Families and Work Institute, human resources, retention, SHRM, women in the workplace, workplace flexibility
To recruit and retain women. A measly one percent. That’s it. When 1,226 employers were asked what their primary reasons were for developing workplace flexibility, caregiving leaves and dependent care initiatives, recruiting and retaining women was last on the list. Dead last. Granted, retaining employees in general came in at 37 percent, followed by helping [...]
The most productive and profitable get us across
Posted: 6th May 2012 by Kevin W. Grossman in Business-to-Business (B2B), Economics, HR Technology, Human Resources, Product Development, Recruiting, Talent AcquisitionTags: HR technology, HRO Today Forum, job creation, job growth, recruiting technology, startups
It’s like crossing a fast-moving river in a boat without a motor or a paddle, while you slowly sink. At least that’s what it feels like when you have yet another anemic month of job growth — only 115,000 jobs in April (which may get revised upward like other months, but still). But economists keep telling [...]