Category: Hiring Methodology or Process

Your Hiring Process Shouldn’t Resemble A Rodney Dangerfield Comedy Skit

We all know the comedian’s most famous line : “I get no respect.” Many candidates might say the same thing about the way they are treated in the hiring process by hiring managers and human resource professionals. I recently wrote on our Vistage Leadership Community Blog an article about candidate respect. Our Vistage Leadership Community [...]

Wednesday October 13th, 2010 in Hiring Methodology or Process | 4 Comments »

Who Is Responsible For Hiring Top Talent In Your Company?

Was your answer HR or the hiring manager? I typically ask this question in our hiring workshops, seminars and Vistage presentations to CEOs and key executives. The answers are generally either HR or the hiring manager. Both of which I disagree with. I believe hiring top talent in any organization falls squarely on the CEO’s [...]

Thursday September 30th, 2010 in Finding Candidates, Hiring and Retention Trends, Hiring Methodology or Process, Hiring Mistakes | 3 Comments »

Why Is Recruiting Sales People Like High School Sports?

In many companies, the recruitment process of trying to find top talent for their sales team resembles the process high school sports teams use to add players. They take whoever shows up at their doorstep and considers that the candidate pool. Discover in this audio program the key elements it takes to fish in deep [...]

Tuesday September 21st, 2010 in Employee Referrals, Finding Candidates, Hiring Frustrations, Hiring Methodology or Process, Hiring Mistakes, Networking for Candidates | No Comments »

Hiring is Less Accurate Than Flipping a Coin

This entry is part 4 of 3 in the series Hiring Failure

Hiring success, as it is traditionally done in most companies, is slightly worse than the flip of coin. Case Study on Hiring Failure Let’s continue down the path of our last two posts on executive hiring failure and explore this horrific statistic in a little more depth. Over my last two blog posts, I presented [...]

Friday September 3rd, 2010 in Hiring Methodology or Process, Hiring Mistakes | No Comments »

Deja Vu-Why Do You Keep Failing at Executive Hiring?

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Hiring Failure

I thought you might enjoy one of the more popular stories in our book, “You’re NOT the Person I Hired”. This is part 1 of a two-part article. Let’s sub-title this blog post: The Case-Study of Repeated Executive Failure A couple of years ago, we worked with a $40 million Information Technology service company. The [...]

Friday August 20th, 2010 in Hiring Methodology or Process, Hiring Mistakes | No Comments »

Most Company’s Hiring Process Is Not A Process

We find that this occurs because the hiring process really isn’t a process in many companies. Many hiring processes tend to be random and with incompetent, untrained people. This is not a knock on the people, it is just a fact. So why do companies expect hiring to be accurate and to attract top talent [...]

Friday August 20th, 2010 in Defining The Job, Hiring Methodology or Process, Hiring Mistakes | No Comments »

The Motivation Behind the Book – You’re NOT the Person I Hired

Brad and I (along with our former Partner – Janet Boydell), undertook the writing of our book “You’re NOT the Person I Hired” for a couple of reasons: First, we enjoy making a difference in the lives of top talent and in the executives who hire top talent. Secondly, we believe deeply and passionately that [...]

Friday August 13th, 2010 in Hiring Frustrations, Hiring Methodology or Process, Hiring Mistakes | No Comments »

What Are the Primary Causes of Hiring Mistakes?

In our experience, hiring mistakes are not caused by willful ignorance or negligence. Most often, new executive failure has several interrelated causes. The primary interrelated causes are: Inadequate Preparation for Hiring In our major research study of the Top Ten Mistakes Executives Make in Hiring, we discovered that companies rarely outline a detailed, measurable definition [...]

Thursday August 12th, 2010 in Hiring Methodology or Process, Hiring Mistakes | 1 Comment »

Why It Is So Hard To Hire Sales People

Hiring good sales professionals is one of the most difficult elements of hiring for many companies. Brad and Barry walk you through the fundamental reasons of why sales hiring fails in most companies and the specific steps and tactics you can implement to raise your hiring accuracy of sales professionals. Learn how to not make [...]

Thursday June 17th, 2010 in Hiring Frustrations, Hiring Methodology or Process, Hiring Mistakes | No Comments »

Six Things to Know When Hiring an Interim Executive

As the economy continues to climb out of this recession/depression, companies want to hedge their bets by hiring people on a temporary or “tryout” basis, even at the executive level. There are a lot of companies out there providing the “interim management solution” but the following are some things to know before you hire an [...]

Tuesday June 1st, 2010 in Hiring Methodology or Process, Interviewing | No Comments »
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