Author: Carl Kutsmode

Ten Success Factors Shared at Chicagoland Event The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce recently published partner, Carl Kutsmode’s article, “Ready, Aim, Hire – Recalibrate Your Military Recruiting Practices.” Read the full article below. Since 2001, nearly three million military personnel have made the transition from military to civilian life and employment. This can be quite challenging […]

It is  with great excitement that we welcome Allicia Hahn, Managing Director to our team effective June 2, 2015. As a Jobplex Executive Vice President since 2011, Hahn led business development and full life cycle recruitment at the “emerging leader” and senior  management level, serving a broad range of client needs including human resources, marketing, […]

Insanity, as famously defined by Albert Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results. Analogously, employers who are frustrated by their inability to attract, hire, retain and develop veterans must revisit, and re-vamp their hiring strategy. What works for recruiting a civilian workforce definitely does not work for hiring […]

TalentRISE today announced that it is partnering with ConnectVETS to help U.S. military veterans more effectively transition to the civilian workforce, enable employers to better connect with this experienced talent pool and, if applicable, meet the new regulations for veteran hiring. Read more here.

This past month, Recruiting Trends ran a two-part series authored by Carl Kutsmode on measurement and the best – and worst – ways to go about evaluating the effectiveness of your talent acquisition function. The articles examined data from a recent TalentRISE and Illinois Institute of Technology survey.  When asked about  measurement methods, respondents’ answers ran the […]

We are pleased to announce that Rick Gray has joined our team as chief executive officer to execute on our company’s business plan and lead the development and implementation of our longer-term growth strategy. To read the press release, click here. To learn more about Rick, click here.

Are Talent Acquisition Departments wishing for something they already have? That’s certainly something that an article, recently published on the ERE.net website, speculates. Using data drawn from our recent survey, our article analyzes the answers when we asked survey respondents one particularly revealing question: “If you had unlimited resources and dollars to invest, what would you invest […]

Last March, as reported here new disability and veterans regulations developed by the OFCCP went into effect. In the roughly 10 months since, we have heard numerous employers, veteran’s advocacy groups and veterans themselves complain about how difficult it still is to actually accomplish what the regulations require, which is for contractors to  establish a […]

Last week, I presented a webinar on “Building A Social Network Strategy To Engage Passive Candidates” at a virtual conference hosted by HR.com. Topics covered included success factors – as well as lessons learned – drawn from TalentRISE’s experiences working with organizations of all sizes in multiple industries to implement social networking strategies that really work. […]

A new survey by TalentRISE and The Center for Research and Service at Illinois Institute of Technology finds that companies are responding to a shrinking supply of labor by investing in more dedicated recruitment resources, better technologies and tools and providing job candidates with an enhanced experience. View the Executive Summary here. Executive Summary TalentRISE 2014 […]