“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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Innovation is the heart of job creation
Posted: 27th April 2012 by Kevin W. Grossman in Business Development, Economics, HR Supplier, HR Technology, Human Resources, Product Development, Recruiting, Talent AcquisitionTags: economics, HR technology, innovation, job creation, recruiting technology, silicon valley
It’s not really a war; it’s a mobilization of innovation and motivated minds — the leaders, the builders, the doers, all the combined skills that make up rocket soup and of course the money that make it all happen, with barriers to business entry lower than the’ve ever been (rocket soup is what rockets needs to run on in one [...]
Change is a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it
Posted: 2nd February 2012 by Kevin W. Grossman in Career Management, Economics, Employment Brand, Human Resources, Leadership, Recruiting, Talent Acquisition, Workplace CultureTags: careers, dirty jobs, economics, workplace
They pushed the cleaning carts into the office hallway at the end of the day. They emptied trash cans, wiped down doorways and cleaned office windows, vacuumed the rugs and then moved on to the bathrooms, sharing something in Spanish and laughing. Right when I left for home and needed to use the bathroom. At [...]