Category: Hiring and Retention Trends

Preparing Your Organization Now For The Recovery: How to Tap into Your Best Resource Part 2

“The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.” La Rochefoucauld In part one, we focused on issues that come up with communication and we will delve further into this complex subject. We knew one organization that placed a very high performing accounting coordinator into a [...]

Tuesday February 23rd, 2010 in Hiring and Retention Trends, Retaining Top Talent | No Comments »

Preparing Your Organization Now For The Recovery: How to Tap into Your Best Resource Part 1

“The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.” La Rochefoucauld Communication has come so far over the years. In less than a split second, we can send emails to thirty different people around the world and everyone will receive the same data. Yet the most [...]

Monday February 22nd, 2010 in Hiring and Retention Trends, Retaining Top Talent | No Comments »

Upgrading Your Team in the Recession

Back in July, I made the recommendation on this blog (and was interviewed by Forbes Magazine Online) to use the recession as a unique point in history to upgrade your team. Have you selected one or two key roles and upgrade the positions yet? If not, what’s holding you back? Don’t miss out on this [...]

Tuesday February 9th, 2010 in Hiring and Retention Trends, Hiring Methodology or Process, Hiring Mistakes | 2 Comments »

Letting Employees Go Is A PR Event

Most have heard that hiring is a PR event. You should make sure that, whether you hire the person or not, they leave your company wishing they got the job. That way, they will speak highly of your company to others that might want to work there. This is especially true in small industries and [...]

Wednesday December 16th, 2009 in Employer Branding, Hiring and Retention Trends, Retaining Top Talent | No Comments »

How To Attract and Retain Sales and Customer Service People Using In-depth Work Style & Personality Testing – Part 1

How do you build up your sales and customer service force in a down economy? The quick answer is don’t be a dodo bird. While researching our book, Cracking the Personality Code, we examined the essentials of what managers and business owners need to know about hiring and managing sales/customer service people with the help [...]

Monday December 7th, 2009 in Hiring and Retention Trends, Hiring Mistakes, Workstyle assessment | 3 Comments »

Cost Per Hire Versus Value Per Hire Which Is Most Important

The cost of a bad hire rarely impacts an organization, however, the value of a great hire can often transform an organization. As executive recruiters, we hear about the “cost per hire” regularly. It seems like every time HR calls, this topic comes up. However, I would suggest that a far better discussion for HR [...]

Monday November 30th, 2009 in Hiring and Retention Trends, Success Factor Methodology | No Comments »

Are You Ready for Your Best Talent to Start Leaving?

What would you do if your top performing subordinate left tomorrow? Would the pain be unbearable? Do they possess your entire customer history in their head? Would key customers follow them to a new job? How much would productivity decline? Would others follow  – like a domino effect? Can you afford the costs of replacing [...]

Friday November 13th, 2009 in Hiring and Retention Trends, Retaining Top Talent | No Comments »

Why Passive Candidates Require Special Handling. A True Story.

I asked a candidate after an interview, “How did the meeting go with the CEO?” The candidate sarcastically replied, “Remind me again, why would I want to leave my current position and go to work there?” Not exactly the sort of answer I was searching for. He was what we refer to as a, “passive [...]

Thursday October 22nd, 2009 in Hiring and Retention Trends, Hiring Mistakes, Interviewing | 19 Comments »

On-line Programs This Week for Hiring Managers – August 24th

If you are a manager or executive, you might be interested in two of the programs Brad and I are hosting this week Brad I will be hosting our weekly Internet Radio Talk Show today for Hiring Managers and Executives titled “Upgrading Your Team During the Recession” at 11-noon PDT on LA Talk Radio. You [...]

Monday August 24th, 2009 in Finding Candidates, Hiring and Retention Trends | No Comments »

Featured in Forbes.Com Article on Hiring During the Recession

Forbes.com recently interviewed me about an article on hiring during the recession. You can read the full article at Forbes.com – The title of the article is “Hiring the best of the left-behind”. The article reinforces a few key ideas – especially for small business owners and entrepreneurs: Recession offers opportunity to hire top talent [...]

Thursday July 9th, 2009 in Hiring and Retention Trends, Success Factor Methodology | No Comments »
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