Last Week in Talent - June 26, 2017

The wheel of the talent acquisition machine never stops turning and last week was no exception, with Yello, Textio, and Sense all grabbing new rounds of funding, Todoist releasing a Slack-competitor called Twist, and Google for Jobs launching its quest to become the one job board to rule them all. In other news, it turns out women-founded companies have more women employees, the so-called skills gap might be a lot of hot air, and Unilever is tossing resumes in favor of algorithms.



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The world of recruiting and hiring is changing. Millions of baby boomers are retiring each year as millions of millennials join the workforce in their stead. All while technology evolves at a breakneck pace and changes the nature of entire industries and career paths almost overnight. Small wonder that many business leaders around the world now worry about their ability to hire the people they need to stay competitive.



How Hiring Freethinkers Encourages Diversity of Thought

This is the ninth in a series of ten posts on hiring candidates with characteristics linked to high performance. Each post focuses on a single key candidate trait, why it matters and how recruiters can develop processes to correctly and fairly evaluate for it.

So far, we’ve covered the science of first impressions, hiring for personality versus character, how to hire committed candidates, how to find motivated candidates, how to hire collaborative individuals, how to hire passionate candidates, finding candidates with the right skillset for your role, and the value of growth minded candidates.

The nature of work often boils down to how we solve problems. Whether you’re a startup, a manufacturer, a retailer, a bank, or a consultancy, you’re helping your customers solve some kind of problem.



“People Want to Work on Cool Stuff”: Entelo Director of Engineering Colleen Noonan

On this episode of Hiring On All Cylinders, Entelo Director of Engineering Colleen Noonan joins host Rob Stevenson and Head of Recruiting Britt Ryan to chat about tactics for engaging candidates and building Entelo’s tech team. Tune in to hear how we’re diversifying our engineering department, why a deliberate, slower hiring process can lead to higher quality hires, and why the exploding offer doesn’t necessarily lead to good outcomes or long-term hires.



Get Lighthouse CEO Jason Evanish on Creating Meaningful One-on-Ones

Get Lighthouse CEO Jason Evanish joins Hiring On All Cylinders with Entelo Senior Director of Customer Success Loni Spratt and host Rob Stevenson to chat about the art and science of holding productive, effective, and strategic one-on-one meetings. They dig into the differences between tactical and strategic conversations, why monthly and weekly meetings with separate focuses are so important, and how to create more proactive engagement between managers and employees.



How Hiring Collaborative Talent Breeds a Creative, Scaleable Organization

This is the fifth in a series of ten posts on hiring candidates for characteristics linked to high performance. Each post focuses on a key candidate trait, why it matters and how recruiters can develop processes to correctly and fairly evaluate for it.

So far, we’ve covered the science of first impressions, the important difference between hiring for personality versus character, how to hire candidates committed for the long haul, and how to find and hire motivated candidates. This post will look at how hiring teams can find and bring on talent committed to collaboration to fuel a more collaborative organization.



Entelo's Favorite Posts of 2016

Over the past year Entelo published over a hundred articles (including this one) and many thousands of words to the venerable Entelo blog. To help wrap up the year, we look back at some of our favorite posts from the past 12 months. Some were posts featuring insights from industry influencers, some were roundups of Hiring On All Cylinders airtime, and others were deep dives into the science of hiring. We hold back on publishing a laundry list of our favorite blog posts, so here’s the quick version. Every post here is is worth reading and rereading. Trust us.



How to Identify and Assess Motivation in High-Performing Candidates

This is the fourth in a series of ten posts on hiring candidates for characteristics linked to high performance. Each post focuses on a key candidate trait, why it matters and how recruiters can develop processes to correctly and fairly evaluate for it.

So far, we’ve covered the science of first impressions, the important difference between hiring for personality versus character, and how to hire candidates committed for the long haul.

This post focuses on motivation, specifically what is, why it matters and what it means for recruiters. We’ll discuss the different kinds of motivation, how they impact job performance, and how recruiters can figure out if a person’s various motivations match the role they’re hiring for.



The Dangers of Hiring Candidates Based on Personality

This is the second in a series of ten posts on hiring candidates for characteristics linked to high performance. Each post focuses on a key candidate trait, why it matters and how recruiters can develop processes to correctly and fairly evaluate for it.

Last week, I discussed how first impressions affect our decision-making process. In this post, I’ll be looking at how recruiters can fairly assess the personalities and character of job candidates to maximize the odds of making good hires.

Personality and character are a key part of every candidate's repertoire, and traits every recruiter has to evaluate. The best hires possess a diverse combination of skills, experience, and intangibles that allow them to gel with coworkers and make contributions to teams that go far beyond their technical skillset.  

But effectively judging both personality traits and character traits is one of the most challenging parts of a recruiter’s job. As easy as it is to read someone’s basic personality, judging their deeper makeup is a completely different task made more difficult by the fact that we often confuse personality with character and vice versa.

Here's why and how recruiters should avoid making this common mistake. 



Recruiters are Business Partners: Entelo Head of Recruiting Britt Ryan

Entelo Head of Recruiting Britt Ryan joins the team to chat about how she’s ramping up the org’s hiring strategies, what she’s got in the cooker for her first 30 days and beyond, and her vision for creating an even more efficient and effective Entelo hiring team.



Why You Can’t Build a Global Org Without Diversity of Thought and Experience: Shopify’s Anna Lambert

The Hiring on All Cylinders team caught up with Anna Lambert, Director of Talent Acquisition for Ottawa-based Shopify. Since she started out as an HR intern, Anna leapt up the ranks and helped Shopify go from 43 to over 1,500 employees. Anna chats with the team about how she went from interviewing for a marketing position to joining as an HR hire and how she manages an international talent acquisition team across multiple offices.



9 Newsletters and Blogs to Make You a Smarter Recruiter

Content is the currency of the internet. Yet there’s so much out there these days, that finding interesting, relevant and, most importantly, curated articles is a full-time job. If you’re like us, you don’t have a ton of time to comb the World Wide Web every day, but you still want to read the good stuff. The goal, after all, is to find the right information, not all of the information.

Newsletters are the single best way to see the best stuff from every corner of the internet in one place. They’re like content cheatsheets. Blogs are a similar, slightly more exhaustive version of newsletters. Both deliver the interesting and relevant intel straight to your inbox in witty, readable, clever nuggets.

But picking the right content resource is like picking the right cable package; it all depends on your interests and habits. Sign up for too many and you’ll spend more time stressing over what to read than actual reading. 

Here are my favorite newsletters and blogs. They cover every facet of my life, including my love for current events, technology, recruiting, business, and productivity. Reading them will no doubt make you smarter and better informed, but they’ll also give you fuel and inspiration for those rainy days when you’ve run out of ideas.



How Bill Boorman Would Make Hiring and Recruiting Less Shoddy

Bill Boorman, #tru conferences founder and recruiting industry luminary, joined Entelo CEO Jon Bischke and host Rob Stevenson in the Hiring On All Cylinders studio for a conversation about the future of recruiting technology. They chatted about the rise of artificial intelligence in hiring, the underappreciated importance of conversations with candidates, and why employee value propositions mean giving people the opportunity to find more enjoyable, meaningful work.



The ROI of Hiring the Right People with Greenhouse Software’s Maia Josebachvili

Maia Josebachvili, VP of People and Strategy at Greenhouse Software, joins the Hiring On All Cylinders team to discuss her work developing a system to measure employee lifetime value. As Maia explains, she began thinking about employee lifetime value because she was trying to figure out the precise ROI of hiring the right people. As a former Wall Street trader, she naturally developed a data-centric, mathematical approach to the question and developed some interesting conclusions that mapped out what factors contribute to the value employees generate for their organizations. 



How to Power Your Company Culture with Data and Feedback Loops

Over the past few years, many organizations have realized how important their company culture is. From the way they treat employees, hire new ones, to how their employees treat each other, culture is a fundamental ingredient to an organization’s success. When it’s bad or nonexistent, it’s costly, as Walmart recently found out.