Month: October 2004

Feature: Turning Anti-Candidates Into Pro-Candidates

My father was the quintessential “anti-consumer.” He never saw a product or service he couldn’t walk right by. He bought things, of course, but it took a lot to convince him to do so. When he did decide to commit, however, you could count on him to follow through. To put it another way, when

Feature: Cutting Corners to the Best Candidates

According to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers survey of Chief Executive Officers, two-thirds of corporate executives now use a planning cycle of one year or less. Such nearsightedness virtually guarantees that recruiting will be an ad hoc, reactive and often crisis-driven process. Requirements will come in without warning or even adequate information, and be declared mission-critical the