Lou Adler is the president of The Adler Group, a training and consulting firm helping companies find and hire top talent using Performance-based Hiring(sm). He is the Amazon best-seller author of Hire With Your Head (John Wiley & Sons, 3rd Edition, 2007) and the new Nightingale-Conant audio program Talent Rules! Using Performance-based Hiring to Hire Top Talent (2007). Adler is a noted recruiting industry expert, national speaker, and columnist for a number of major recruiting Internet sites including SHRM, ERE.net, Kennedyinfo.com and ZoomInfo.com. Adler’s early career included executive and financial management positions with The Allen Group and Rockwell International. He holds an MBA from UCLA and a B.S. in Engineering from Clarkson University, New York.

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	Measuring and Maximizing Quality of Hire by Lou Adler - Sep, 2011 Measuring quality of hire (QoH) is somewhat elusive, but critical if a company wants to know if its sourcing, recruiting, assessment, and hiring programs are working properly. Without it, implementing a raising-the-talent-bar strategy become problematic. In this article I’d like to focus o...
	Is the Current Corporate Recruiting Department Model Doomed? by Lou Adler - Jul, 2011 Some points to make before you read this article: 1. It’s somewhat controversial, but by the end you’ll agree (if you get that far). 2. If you’re a corporate recruiter or HR leader, put your confirmation bias in the parking lot before reading this article. 3. You might want t...
	Back to the Future: Recruiting Circa 2020 by Lou Adler - Jul, 2011 As I ponder the future of where our industry is headed, I’m reminded of Geoffrey Moore’s technology adoption curve, from his fine book, Crossing the Chasm. It describes how users (aka “buyers”) of technology follow a predictable adoption rate, generally based on their comfort with the tech...
	The Future of Recruiting 2015-2020: Six Key Major Trends to Consider by Lou Adler - Jun, 2011 Technology, especially the use of advanced business networking tools, in combination with state-of-the-art Internet marketing techniques, are fundamentally changing the face of recruiting as we once knew it. Surprisingly, most major U.S. corporations are still moving too slowly to take ful...
	How to Use LinkedIn to Recruit Passive Candidates by Lou Adler - Jun, 2011 Is LinkedIn worth $90 a share? If you’re a recruiter, it’s worth a heck of a lot more if you know how to recruit and use it properly. If you just think it’s a great research tool with millions of names of passive candidates, you’re missing its real value. In this case it’s worth a heck of ...
	How to Use LinkedIn to Recruit Passive Candidates - Part 2 by Lou Adler - Jun, 2011 This week we’ll predict the future of LinkedIn and suggest what we think is needed to ensure that it remains the primary sourcing tool for recruiting passive candidates. Although we’re the exclusive and authorized provider of advanced training using the LinkedIn suite of corporate prod...
	Treat All Candidates as Passive to Increase Your Quality of Hire by Lou Adler - Jun, 2011 There’s an old adage that you should treat candidates as customers. Somehow this has been forgotten in the current era of high unemployment and slow job growth. I’m going to reframe this idea and suggest that if you want to hire the best people possible, treat everyone as if they were a pa...
	Stop Making Bad Tacos - or How to Establish an Internal Executive Search Team by Lou Adler - Jan, 2011 As the hiring recovery gains momentum, some older recruiting strategies are coming back in vogue. One that seems to be high on many HR executives’ action plans is the need to develop an internal executive search capability within the corporate recruiting department. While the idea offers g...
	BranchOut vs. LinkedIn, and Recruiting Passive Candidates in 2011 by Lou Adler - Jan, 2011 Although there were some naysayers about my predictions for job growth in 2011 (Dec 14, 2010 ERE), it’s more clear that 2011 will be banner year for professional hiring, coupled with the added impact of employee churn. Even if the prediction is somewhat premature, get ready for it anyway. ...
	Change Your Hiring POV to Eliminate 50 Percent of All Hiring Errors by Lou Adler - Dec, 2010 I have a brilliant nephew — Harvard grad, etc., — who is, shall we say, a bit left of center. He has an executive position in the California state government, which is enough to further pinpoint his political persuasion. While I love him dearly, during the holiday season we have some rathe...
	A Checklist for Sourcing and Recruiting Top Talent by Lou Adler - Dec, 2010 In his book Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande contends that good people underperform largely due to errors of ineptitude — not doing what we know needs to be done — rather than errors of ignorance or inability. With this as a backdrop, he goes on to demonstrate that the proper use of check...
	LinkedIn, Jobs2Web, Monster’s CAN, Dominoes, and Newton’s Third Law of Motion by Lou Adler - Nov, 2010 Every action has an opposite and equal reaction — Newton’s Third Law of Motion There is a dark side to a company’s ability to identify and recruit high-potential fully-employed passive candidates. The problem: the fully employed people they’re identifying, recruiting, and hiring now wor...
	A Zillion More Reasons to Abolish Job Descriptions by Lou Adler - Nov, 2010 As most of you know, I think job descriptions are the primary reason why companies can’t find or hire top talent. For this reason alone they should be abolished. Here’s the first dozen of a zillion reasons why. 1. Except for the list of responsibilities, they don’t define jobs at all; t...
	How Should You Measure Quality of Hire? by Lou Adler - Sep, 2010 “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning Not being Valentine’s Day, nor the 24/7 romantic, some of you might be confused. Of course, in this case I’m referring to quality of hire. It’s a worthy topic, but like a cloud, it’s hard to get your arms around. ...
	Recruiting Passive Candidates-Networking With LinkedIn for Great Referrals by Lou Adler - Jul, 2010 I’ve just written a recent companion piece on ERE (July 30, 2010) on my top ten favorite networking techniques for recruiting passive candidates. There were actually more than 20, but here are the next five. Caution: there are two prerequisites when using any of these techniques. First, yo...
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