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…
The True Value of Using a Headhunter: Barbara Ashton Video
In this video, Barbara Ashton, talks about the value of using a headhunter and how clients benefit. She is a highly experienced and expert recruiter who leads Ashton & Associates Recruiting, . Ashton & Associates Recruiting… Helping You Hire Right. Every Time. Ashton & Associates Recruiting is constantly adding…
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)…
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…
3 Ways to Minimize the Staggering Costs of a Bad Hire
“At most companies people spend 2% of their time recruiting, and 75% managing their mistakes.” – Richard Fairbank, Founder, Capital One. Let’s talk about what happens when companies make bad hire choices… You know it just was a mistake, it’s over with, but did you learn your lesson from it?…
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…
Interviewing — 5 Ways to Take it From Good to Great
1. Make it About Them Making people feel important is the single most important thing you can do to make an impression on anyone, anywhere, any time. By showing sincere interest in your candidate you are sending a strong signal to them that they matter, and that you appreciate they are…
Headhunter Insider Tips on Keeping Your Spear Sharp
It’s no secret many are confused when they hear the term headhunter, images of bone-in-hair-painted-faces charge top of mind. Executive search may carry a tamer vision, but they are in fact one and the same. It’s all about the fine art of targeting, tracking and bringing home that exceptional trophy…
DON’T GET SUED – TOP 7 MISTAKES EMPLOYERS MAKE
The following is a list of pitfalls and common foibles for which many employers have been sued. Stop what you’re doing and take head. It’s cheaper in the long run to be informed, than it is to be sued. 1. Make everyone an “independent contractor” to avoid costly payroll benefits …
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