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True or False: “Project Management has been called the “accidental profession” because people just stumbled into it.” Read On »
How can Business Reference Model (BRM) be connected to Business Value? How can BRM help improve business processes? Read On »
An excellent presentation on the history and types of Virtual Organizations. Good Read! Read On »
Treating IT spending as investments is an excellent idea. Where do you go from there? Read this step-by-step guide to help plan your journey.
Which Enterprise Architecture Framework is the best? This paper provides a framework to make that comparison easier… Read On »
How good is your IT Governance? What are the areas of success? What are the areas of improvement? This paper presents a Balanced Scorecard based framework to measure and improve IT Governance. Good Read! Read On »
An excellent step-by-step guide to creating an eStrategy, based on a real life example. Excellent Read! Read On »
Looking for a practical methodology to develop an IT Strategy? One that has actually been implemented? Look no more! Read On »
How can Boards of Directors create an effective IT Governance for their companies? This study provides boards of directors of publicly traded companies with checklists for assessing the practice and structure of their boards in the area of IT governance. Excellent Read! Read On »
The Candidate Advocate is not an administrator, nor a recruiter. The Candidate Advocate does not simply set up interviews and deliver feedback; they represent your candidates’ interests. It may seem counterintuitive to appoint such a person, but your must consider your candidates’ point of view in order to effectively hire. A candidate advocate can facilitate spoken and unspoken communications allowing you to present yourself and your company in their best possible light.
Even the very best consulting firms lose good candidates. Hiring companies may turn candidates off by delaying interviews, providing unclear feedback or simply by not paying enough attention. An overly full interview pipeline prevents new prospects from entering your hiring process. You may waste valuable executive time micro-managing recruitment. You may not provide or receive valuable feedback. If you are losing your best candidates, you may want to consider appointing a Candidate Advocate.
A Candidate Advocate plays a critical marketing role as you compete for scarce talent. You have a short period of time and limited communication with your prospects and you need to make the best impression possible. Your candidates’ emotional reactions to you and your hiring process critically impact your ability to hire.
The care you take creating a favorable impression to candidates should reflect the care you take developing business with new clients. When you sell services, you create the strongest messages possible, plan the delivery of those messages, seek help from subject matter experts, and delegate the administration of your process. You provide leadership and only directly involve yourself in the highest value areas. A good Candidate Advocate not only will provide administrative support, they will act as a subject matter expert about your recruiting process and your prospective hires.
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