While championing diversity initiatives over the past 20 years, I have always emphasized how these actions will improve financial outcomes for companies. Now there is mounting evidence that by overcoming the racial wealth gap, which includes hiring biases, the U.S.…
Author: victorassad6
I advocate, consult, speak, and write about recruiting talent, building HR capabilities, and developing excellent leaders, teams, and cultures. I am the CEO of Victor Assad Strategic HR Consulting and Managing Partner of InnovationOne. I have just released my first book, "Hack Recruiting: The Best of Empirical Research, Method and Process, and Digitization." It has received outstanding endorsement and 5-star ratings on Amazon.
We work with small, mid-size, and large organizations in a variety of industries such as medical devices, bio-tech, high tech, health care, manufacturing, semiconductors, mining, and retail.
Before consulting, I led HR for fast-growth, global businesses of Medtronic and Honeywell.
Over 50 percent of job postings drive away applicants, especially women
Your job postings may be your worst nightmare, scaring off job applicants with jargon and needless clutter and driving away female applicants. If your job posting is more than 250 words and uses gender bias tones, it is time for…
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Oct 28 – Driving bias out of recruiting, performance management, and promotions
Join me and the @SHRM NorCal community for a fresh look at how to take bias out of recruiting, performance management, pay and promotions. Enroll here. The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the divisions in our national politics…
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5 compensation trends to manage for 2021
Most U.S. companies are planning to give employees pay raises and annual bonuses next year despite the economic fallout from the pandemic. However, the pandemic and the growing demand for pay equity and transparency and remote work are all changing…
Job aggregators are sabotaging online recruiting. Tips on how to stop them.
Online recruiting is still under attack since I wrote this article a year ago. The system is breaking down and becoming rife with tech-savvy scammers. Job aggregators are ruining the job candidate experience and in many cases preventing job applications…
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Five Performance Management Imperatives for 2021
To alleviate stress for new remote workers, many companies stopped their performance management systems during the pandemic’s peak. But rather than stopping performance management, they should have focused on accelerating their organization’s ability to be agile. The best performance management…
Five steps to retool your employer brand for 2021
Has your employer brand held up during the pandemic? Even companies with stand-up employer brands in February need to retool them in the pandemic age. For example, how has your brand changed regarding remote work, innovation, and your new role…
How to cultivate innovation in the workforce
What does it really mean to be innovative as a workforce? Victor Assad sheds light on how organizations can foster innovation and the maximizing technologies that can help them do so. The empirical evidence shows that companies seldom become innovative…
Insightful podcast on HR strategy, technology and data literacy
It was a pleasure speaking with Ira Wolfe and Keith Campagna about important topics for HR today: strategy, technology and data literacy! It is easier than you think. Watch the podcast of our September 9th discussion at this link. https://lnkd.in/dFbhtrE
Watch me and Piyanka Jain on JobSync’s podcast: Data Literacy for HR Professionals. Successful examples discussed on how data improved recruiting, diversity, and business success.
There is a misconception today that you need to be a data scientist and be working with AI or some other analytics tool to create HR measurements that connect to better HR practices and overall better business outcomes. It’s simply…