Lou Adler
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A CEO with 25 years of recruiting experience shares 6 data-based job hunting tips
A new report shows that odds for job seekers who bypassed the apply button improved dramatically. → Read More
Lou Adler
Lou Adler is the Amazon best-selling author of Hire With Your Head (Wiley, 2007) and the award-winning Nightingale-Conant audio program, Talent Rules! His latest book, The Essential Guide for Hiring & Getting Hired, is now available on Amazon. You might want to join Lou's new LinkedIn group to discuss this and related hiring issues. → Read More
Why Hiring Managers Need to Be Totally Responsible for Hiring
Hiring managers need to be able to attract, assess, recruit, retain and develop top talent. Otherwise they'll be left to the whims of the HR department. → Read More
Job Hunting Strategies for a Turbulent Economy
The world economy is going bonkers and the U.S. economy is growing jobs at record rates. There are some important guidelines you need to follow to figure out if this is the best of times to change jobs or the worst. → Read More
A Hiring Manager's Do-It-Yourself Guide to Recruiting
As new recruiting tools become available it's becoming easier for hiring managers to do their own recruiting. These 10 steps will help you get started. → Read More
Hiring Better Talent Begins with a Better Strategy
As the demand for the best talent intensifies, HR and company leaders need to revisit their talent acquisition strategies. In most cases the wrong strategy is what's preventing them from hiring the best people. → Read More
My Hiring Bucket List
The idea of Zero-based Hiring might be the best way to redesign the hiring process in a talent scarce era. Here are 10 ideas for getting started. → Read More
Why Job Hopping Syndrome Is a Career Killer
While job hopping is more acceptable, it's devastating to anyone who wants to develop a long-term career. Here's how to determine if you or one of your job candidates has developed a bad case of Job Hopping Syndrome. → Read More
Use This Job Fit Index to Accurately Predict On-the-Job Success
Predicting a new hire's on-the-job performance starts by defining expected performance. With this as a starting point, this 7-factor Job Fit Index will guide you to the correct hiring decision. → Read More
Playing the Hiring Game to Win
There are two employment markets. One offers jobs, the other career opportunities. If you want to hire the best people you need to understand how to play the hiring game to win. → Read More
The Underground Guide for Getting a Job
Applying to a job posting is the least best way of making a career move. By reverse engineering how companies actually find candidates for important jobs, you'll dramatically increase your chances of finding a much better one. → Read More
Seven Factors that Absolutely Predict Great Hiring Decisions
There are seven factors that accurately predict on-the-job success and job satisfaction. It's critical that you get them all right. Surprisingly, none of them have to do skills, behaviors or competencies. → Read More
How to Measure and Maximize Quality of Hire
There's no magic to hiring great people. It starts by figuring out what the best people do differently than everyone else doing the same work. → Read More
How to Hire Hiring Managers Who Know How to Manage
When hiring hiring managers it's important to assess both their ability to manage well and to hire well. Too often the focus is on their individual contributor skills, not their ability to achieve remarkable team results. → Read More
How to Conduct an Effective Interview with No Preparation Whatsoever
When you ask candidates to prove their greatest strengths you're able to conduct one-half of an effective interview. The other half is comparing this to the actual work that needs to be done. → Read More
An Open Email from the CEO to All Outstanding Candidates
This email from a CEO to her recruiting team offers a glimpse of how hiring should be done. It starts by converting jobs into career moves and using a consultative hiring process to ensure full disclosure. → Read More
10 Proactive Ideas to Hire Stronger People in 2016
Hiring great people starts long before you need to hire them. If you're always reacting to some critical hiring need, it's unlikely either you or the person being hired will make the right decision. → Read More
Back to the Future: How Accurately Predict Quality of Hire
Predicting quality of hire before the person starts on the job requires three conditions to be true. Most managers ignore them all and wonder why the person underperformed. → Read More
Use Curtis to Benchmark Exceptional Team and UX Skills
The User Experience (UX) is an essential aspect of any design project. It's also at the core of exceptional team skills. This story from long ago shows how it should be done today. → Read More
These 12 Interviewing Tips Reveal Management Potential
The best managers are rarely the best techies or subject matter experts. Instead, they make the best techies and subject matter experts even better. → Read More