Hiring and recruitment

Do something to fill the gap on your resume.

This week’s question for Ask the Coach: Once again, I hired the perfect person, I thought, and he’s turned out to be a nightmare. Why is it so hard to hire the right person? Hiring the right people is not as simple as it sounds! Millions of managers ask themselves this same question every day. […]

A new feature on LinkedIn represents a cultural shift. But it’s just the start.

Working parenthood was hard before Covid-19--now it's an all-out crisis. In "A Way Forward for Working Parents," Daisy Dowling argues that it's time to...

The Denver office of Clarion Co., a $30 million, full-service marketing firm, has always been a politics-free zone. Nonwork conversations revolve around...

According to Wickham Skinner (“What Matters to Manufacturing,” HBR January–February 1988), too many managers now approach production difficulties with “a menu of textbook techniques”—CIM, for example—when they should be thinking through the same old questions: What is my business? Where is the market? What machines and flexibilities do I really need? With Skinner’s strictures in […]

Distributed computing makes it possible to use the untapped processing and storage capability of PCs, laptops, and servers across your company’s network. It could also open up big, new business opportunities.

No two organizations' hiring processes are alike. No technology company hiring manager would ask a programmer applicant to teach the alphabet, but it's...

Jim, an employee of the nuclear division of Fairway Electric, discovered a report written fifteen years ago about a flaw in the design of their Radon...

Put aside the dire headlines about falling stock markets, rising risks of recession, and overall economic anxiety. If you’re young, smart, and even reasonably well-connected, these are great times to be working on your career. We are in a seller’s market for “human capital.” Well-known technology companies are battling fiercely to recruit newly minted programmers, […]

From how to protect employees to whether it's necessary to revise benefits policies.

Don't treat employees and contractors differently.

Personality traits can explain half of the variance in engagement.

It's not about how they answer your questions - it's about the kind of questions they ask you.

What they should prove before you bring them on board.

(I wrote this post with Diamond CTO Chris Curran) Are you taking no more than a squirt gun to the talent wars? Most people find jobs through social connections. In 1974, Harvard sociologist Mark Granovetter published his landmark study that showed four out of five people find jobs through personal connections. Yet, in our recent […]

In this three-part case, the authors explore how an HIV-infected employee should be managed over time. Manager Greg van de Water must make a series of...

Robert Chavez, CEO of Hermès US, argues companies must foster open communication to build a collaborative working environment.

And why it's important.

Pretending not to notice race for fear of appearing prejudiced actually has the opposite effect--others will perceive you as more biased. Research documenting...