Review

• What Is Wrong With Our Recruitment Process?

  Wed, 1 Aug 2012

  Our human resources department attracts and selects top-notch candidates, sells the company very well and arranges a solid orientation program for newcomers. Yet other departments seem to cause a

• Tech Firms Hit With Antitrust Lawsuit

  Wed, 20 Jun 2012

  Agreements made between companies that restrict competition between their employees may violate antitrust laws.

• How Much Are Bad Hires Costing Us?

  Wed, 18 Apr 2012

  We want to fix our recruiting after some bad hires. How can we measure the effect, in dollars and other costs, of poor hiring decisions? —Penny-Pinching Recruiter, government, New South

• Lawsuits Put the Spotlight on Hiring of Interns

  Tue, 12 Jun 2012

  High-profile media outlets are targeted by class-action lawsuits as questions of pay and hours draw attention.

• How Many Positions Should Our Recruiters Be Filling?

  Tue, 13 Mar 2012

  Are there industry averages for how many positions a recruiter should fill every month/quarter/year? —I'm CEO, but I Don't Know, services, Mississauga, Ontario

• Will A Checklist Help Us Recruit More Effectively?

  Wed, 14 Dec 2011

  How can I find a standard checklist or procedure for upper management to use to communicate recruiting needs? Currently we are not being informed until long after the employee is to be terminated,

• Special Report on Social Media: You Can't Take Your Online Contacts With You ... or Can You?

  Wed, 7 Dec 2011

  As companies rush into the worlds of LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, some are discovering sticky issues when employees engaged in corporate social media activity depart.

• Dear Workforce What Is the Optimal Way to Establish New Goals for Recruiters?

  Mon, 17 Oct 2011

  I want to revise the goals for our small team of recruiters. We don't do a lot of hiring, but when we do, we are very selective. How then should we be setting these new goals: based on quality of

• Dear Workforce Why Can't We Get Qualified Applicants in a Recession?

  Sat, 8 Oct 2011

  Our experience seems to run counter to national trends. Our company has posted several jobs internally, but the candidates who applied really didn’t wow us. These jobs require at least a high

• Dear Workforce What Can We Do to Make Our Managers Better at Hiring?

  Sat, 8 Oct 2011

  How can our public-sector organization help its non-HR managers improve their hiring skills? They are often asked to handle personnel-related issues, such as determining whether candidates have the

• Dear Workforce What Percentage of Our Recruiting Should Come From Within

  Mon, 10 Oct 2011

  I am doing research for our human resources management curriculum and got to wondering: Are any statistics available on average percentages of internal promotion versus external recruitment? What do