Moving Your Interview Status Up From Simply Qualified to A-list Your goal in an interview is to promote your best self, ensuring that you are seen as the strongest candidate in terms of values, culture, competency and motive. When you are interviewing with a search firm, the very least you want to be achieving is to…
How Today’s Top Employers are Hiring the Best People
Have you ever wondered how certain companies are consistently hiring the best people? How do they attract and keep the best and brightest employees? Finding and hiring great people can be an agonizing experience for even the most seasoned hiring manager. Hiring managers and business owners consistently tell me their hiring…
Values. The Single Most Important Thing to Know About Hiring Right.
Have you ever hired someone directly from your competitor, feeling righteously proud about your new trophy hire, only to discover after it was too late that they were a seriously wrong fit? You’re not alone. We’ve all been there, wooed by hearing all the right things, only to learn that…
The Succession Plan for Business Owners and Hiring Managers
CFO: What happens if we invest in developing our people and then they leave us? CEO: What happens if we don’t, and they stay? I have no idea where this quote originated. What I do know is that I posted it to my LinkedIn profile and almost instantly received over…
Executive Search: Is It Worth the Cost?
Is a search firm cost effective? Your answer depends on whether or not you agree that having the right people working for you will determine whether you are struggling or prospering in your business. Something to think about. It’s like David and Goliath out there. For small-medium businesses the…
Growing Pains? Why Hiring Employees Because You Think They Will Work Hard is Not Enough.
Don’t get me wrong, hard working employees are critically important to growing a successful business. But that’s not all it takes. START hiring people you can build … they will grow your company for you. Employees with high drive and work ethic want to perform and know they are contributing positively to a team…
LIFE LESSONS OF A HEADHUNTER: Millennials Schmillennials
While 1 in 4 Millennials might say they are feeling overwhelmed by debt, the rest of us in the working world are feeling overwhelmed with dealing with them. Them being the millennials, the GenY’ers. Millennials are the generation of people born between 1982 and 2000. Other’s say they are those…
A Good Employee Onboarding Program – 3 Keys to Your Company’s Success
You’ve hired the best. Now what? You only get one chance to make the right impression on your shiny new employee. Don’t learn this lesson the hard way. I recently took a call from a very disgruntled woman who quit her job after only 10 days due to sheer frustration. She…
If You Struggle with Hiring the Right People, You’re Not Alone.
Here are 4 tips to help you get it right, every time. Do Your Own Interviewing. I have seen this mistake repeated over and over again – leaving the hiring to the people in HR. Unless your Human Resources department carries a lead role in your business process — and…
Enhancing Your Hiring Process to Attract Talented People
Finding and hiring talented people is a lot harder than simply expressing the fact that your company values talent. Building a team of talented people in your company requires a pro-active approach to recruitment on many levels. Sure you have set up a system to dismiss those who are not…
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