Gerry Crispin
Content authored by Gerry Crispin
Free Your Head: The Cognitive Dissonance of HR in Cuba.
Editor’s Note: Thank you to our sponsor HiringSolved for making this trip possible. “One pill makes you larger, And one pill makes you small. And the ones that Mother gives you, don’t… Read more
Once On This Island: A Closer Look At HR In Cuba.
Editor’s Note: Thank you to our sponsor HiringSolved for making this trip possible. I’m taking off at o’dark thirty Saturday morning on a charter flight to Havana with a ragtag assortment… Read more
Scary Movie: Mystery Applicants and Candidate Experience.
Many recruiters don’t read. Most of them don’t write. Fear not. The Career XRoads 2015 Mystery Job Seeker Survey doesn’t indict our educational systems; rather, it highlights basic failings endemic… Read more
Candidates Are Not Customers.
There’s been a lot of discussion about the many similarities between customers and candidates, particularly as relates to improving candidate experience. It’s a convenient comparison, sure, but before adopting this… Read more
Building A Case for Building A National Recruiting Association
Several recent posts by Derek Zeller, Steve Levy and Chris Hoyt (and especially the comments directly following those posts) contributed to my writing this column, but I wanted to weigh… Read more
Don’t Predict the Future of Recruiting. Change It.
We were asked to predict the future of recruiting. We declined. It is too easy. Everything is possible when you are never held accountable. Instead, we took a brief step… Read more
CareerXRoads Bellwethers: A Recruiting Industry Roundup
Every day, talent practitioners and leaders are literally inundated with a seemingly Sisyphusian mountain of recruiting related content. From thought leader views to industry news, staying on top of the stories and… Read more
Net Promoter Score & Candidate Experience
Apparently, asking your customers a direct question: “How likely are you to recommend our company/product/service to your friends and colleagues?” is a pretty solid indicator of your brand’s relationship with its customers and,… Read more
End of the Line: The Hidden Costs of Global Recruiting
Featured Guest Post by Gerry Crispin The hiring process has no minimum acceptable (or unacceptable) standard of practice. Anything goes and many recruiters prefer it that way. Perhaps intuitively we… Read more