"What Makes Recruiting Partnerships Fail (or Prosper)?" - The 10 Minute Talent Rant is LIVE

Stop me if you heard this one: “I had a bad experience with a recruiter.”

Doesn’t matter if you were hiring for your company or looking for a job. Everyone’s experienced this. Recruiters themselves have heard it from new clients about their previous partnerships, too. A million times.

But why? Why do so many people have bad experiences with recruiters? And what’s different then they actually go well?

James Hornick and Jeff Smith break down the root causes of bad recruiting in episode 87 of The 10 Minute Talent Rant, "What Makes Recruiting Partnerships Fail (or Prosper)?"

Replays will be available via Hirewell Talent Insights: https://talentinsights.hirewell.com/

Does it feel like tenures are getting shorter? The data says they are. Both over the long term and the last year.

And that matches a lot of the conversations we’ve had with companies. It sure feels like more people are leaving roles in their first year. But why is that?

Despite everyone’s best intentions to fix up their onboarding and employee engagement during “The Great Resignation” era, it doesn’t look like it stuck. Jeff Smith and James Hornick discuss how we still have some work to do in episode 86 of The 10 Minute Talent Rant, "We Never Fixed The Retention Problem"

Social networks come and go. That includes LinkedIn.

There’s an argument to be made that LinkedIn is more than that. It’s a user generated, worldwide corporate directory that serves as the source of truth for who’s who in business. More tactically, It’s the lifeblood of the sales and recruiting industries.

But what happens if people simply stop updating their profiles? Maybe they’re covering gaps. Maybe they’ve been ‘green banner’ shamed. What purpose does LinkedIn really serve then?

It’s a real phenomenon that Jeff Smith and James Hornick are seeing. They’ll discuss where LinkedIn is headed in episode 85 of The 10 Minute Talent Rant, "Will LinkedIn Be Dead In 10 Years?"

The hiring market is improving, slowly but surely. It’s not going to the moon like Bitcoin, but it’ll get there.

Hiring needs create urgency. Urgency creates shortcuts. And shortcuts create every bad stereotype people have about recruiting.

What happens when scaling up becomes a hair-on-fire drill? And you didn’t spend your down time fine tuning your strategy and processes? Jeff Smith and James Hornick covered it in episode 83 of The 10 Minute Talent Rant, "Dumb Hiring Ideas Are Back, Baby!"

Remote on-the-job learning is hard. College loans are astronomically expensive. And no one knows what skills AI will make irrelevant (if any.)

Change is constant. But a lot of it at once is a lot to take in. Especially those just beginning their careers.

Jeff Smith and James Hornick aren’t going to play generational favorites but they are going to point out the obvious in episode 82 of The 10 Minute Talent Rant, "The Unique Sh*tstorm For Young Professionals"

The tech layoffs aren’t over. Marketing budgets haven’t recovered. DEI programs are slashed.

Might explain why we don’t hear anyone talk about employer brand anymore. It’s probably for the better: workers are skeptical. A lot of people got burned in the last 18 months and no one believes the old corporate jargon when they’re looking for their next role.

Hiring isn’t dead, but the talent attraction playbook needs a reboot. Jeff Smith and James Hornick discuss what resonates with job seekers and what falls flat in episode 81 of The 10 Minute Talent Rant, "Remember Employer Brand? It's Dead."

New year. New hiring market. Hopefully.

2023 was a year a lot of recruiters are happy to turn the page on. But it wasn’t all bad. Hirewell did see some growth areas and a consistently strong demand for interim talent.

Matt Massucci and James Hornick break down the previous quarter and look what what’s happening to start 2024 with “Hirewell Data Insights: Hiring Trends Q4 2023"

Replays will be available on Hirewell’s Youtube channel. Audio-only version will be available on the Talent Insights podcast on Apple, Google, Amazon and Spotify.

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