If anyone tells you that being a good headhunter is easy, they’re either drunk, stoned, or just plain stupid. I’ve been in the recruiting / headhunting business for over three decades. What an enormous blessing it is for me to be a part of so many people’s careers and business…
Talent Management – 5 Ways to Build Talent Inside Your Company
If you’re a business leader, and you know your company productivity is falling, and you know your company culture is lacking morale, you have no time to waste getting started with a talent management strategy. A big part of being a good leader and a good manager is talent management…
What do Headhunters Look For – Advice for Owners & Managers
As a business owner, whether you love us or hate us, I’ll bet you’ve wondered: what is it that headhunters look for when they’re choosing what companies they want to recruit for. Headhunters have something you don’t have. They have inside information from the job market. They have a pool…
5 Win-Win Ways to Negotiating a Job Offer Successfully
Negotiating a job offer is not something many of us have a lot of practice with. Despite this, how well we perform when negotiating a job offer has a serious impact on the quality of our work life. More importantly, how well we do when negotiating a job offer…
Employee Retention – Beware the Golden Handcuffs
Employee retention is more than about offering a cool pool table room at break time, or fabulous vacation time, compensation and benefits. They are compelling attractors for an employee initially, but are they good motivators for keeping them satisfied and staying with your organization for the long haul? Many stay…
The Guide to Hiring People Smarter Than You
How (and Why) You Need to Hire People Smarter Than You As any well-seasoned recruiter knows, the most fitting applicant for a position often needs to be far better at many competencies than the actual manager doing the hiring … or the person that they’ll be reporting to, for that…
Top 3 Reasons to Hire Recent Grads as Commission Sales Reps
“Should I hire this recent grad who seems to be quite bright or should I send the offer letter to that candidate who has been around for more than 10 years?” Employers all around the world and across all industries in the economy face this dilemma almost every time they…
New Alliance Partnership with Kelowna’s Full Spectrum Leadership
Ashton & Associates Recruiting recently entered into an alliance partnership with Full Spectrum Leadership Inc. Ashton & Associates becomes the exclusive HR alliance partner of Full Spectrum Leadership providing FSL clients with Executive Search, Permanent Recruitment and Contract Staffing throughout BC and Western Canada. At the same time, Ashton & Associates is now…
My Top 8 Drivers for Employee Engagement
To survive your company needs to be continuously winning and growing new clients, and the only way you can do this sustainably is to hire and grow the right people. Why then, if hiring and keeping top talent is all that distinguishes you from your competitors, is the number one…
Faced with Lay-offs? The Cost of NOT Doing It Well
Every business owner or hiring manager, at some time or another, will eventually be faced with the unpleasant task of terminating an employee. Down-sizing, outsourcing, job redundancy, whatever the reasons, it’s absolutely critical to your company’s reputation, and hence financial success, that you do things right. According to USA TODAY…
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