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…
Video: Hiring People Away From Your Competition
Barbara Ashton talks about the two types of hires that are most commonly associated with hiring from your competitors. One is the Trophy hire and the other is the Bluebird hire. Ashton & Associates are specialists at identifying right fit candidates on the basis of values alignment, ambition and drive, skills,…
VIDEO: On Doing the Hiring Yourself
Doing the hiring yourself has it’s advantages, but may come with some very costly disadvantages that you as an employer may need to watch out for.
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…
Choosing Someone to Manage or to Lead – How Can You Tell the Difference?
If you are faced with hiring a new manager for your organisation, I would like you to think about the weight of the decision you are making. Wait a minute, what does that have to do with baking a cake? My friend Leslee Lucy, the Financial Centre Manager for Sun Life, nailed it…
Assessments are Key to Right Fit Hiring and Team Building
Pre-hire or post-hire, assessments are an ideal tool for identifying high-potential employees for your company. Assessments help you to eliminate the ‘hiring of friends and relatives’ or even just hiring people because you like them. Assessments can be used to measure a great many things – from personality types (DISC, TrueColors, MBTI, etc)…
Employee vs Contractor – The 3 Way Test
Hiring contractors over employees is a growing trend in finding right fit talent to perform necessary services. The benefits of hiring contractors are numerous including the flexibility, limited costs, and breadth of expertise that they bring to a project.
5 Values to Help You Determine Right Fit When Hiring
If you want to determine whether a potential new hire will fit your company culture, you should start by defining your company culture and then the potential hire. Today has been a pretty typical day for me. Earlier this morning I met a client who told me he could tell…
The Small Business 5 Step Guide to 99% Pain Free Hiring
As recruiters we’re in daily contact with a host of hiring decision-makers, from company owners to C-suite executives and mid-level managers. What we often hear is that it’s not just about finding qualified candidates, it’s about hiring the right qualified candidates, and the resulting costs of making the wrong hiring decision. Hiring great…
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