Category: Hiring Mistakes

4 Ways To Counter a Counter Offer

Counter offers should be expected, as nobody wants to lose their best people.  It is a lot easier to make a counter offer than to try to find a new person. Especially one that is top talent. In some strange way a counter offer is a good thing. It signals that the candidate’s current company [...]

Tuesday January 10th, 2012 in Compensation, Finding Candidates, Hiring Mistakes | 2 Comments »

Hiring Mistake #3 – Inappropriate Prerequisites

Hiring top talent is not the same as ordering in the drive-through line at your favorite fast food restaurant. In many companies, the hiring process is a comprised of picking items off a short list. “I’ll take a cheeseburger, no onions, fries, and a medium vanilla shake.” What does this sound like outside of our [...]

Sunday January 8th, 2012 in Hiring Mistakes | No Comments »

Are You Using Best Practices or Worst Practices in Hiring?

In many of my Vistage and TEC presentations with our popular You’re NOT the Person I Hired speaker program, members consistently slap themselves in the forehead, start sweating, hairs go up on the back of their neck, and they frequently challenge me on why I am creating so much pain around hiring. I’m convinced this [...]

Monday November 21st, 2011 in Finding Candidates, Hiring Mistakes | No Comments »

Why Hiring Fails: Hiring Mistake #2 – Superficial Interviewing

Next to not defining success, superficial interviewing is the second most common mistake made in the hiring process that leads to hiring failure. There are two key elements to effective interviewing: Asking the right questions and validating the truth in the candidate answers.   Asking The Right Questions Where do most CEOs, Executives, and Managers [...]

Sunday November 13th, 2011 in Hiring Mistakes, Interviewing | 2 Comments »

An Easy Hiring Mistake To Fix

Q. Are there common mistakes companies make when hiring that could be easily avoided?  The most common mistakes are a manifestation of the most common problems with hiring. The biggest problem with hiring is that few companies invest in training their managers on how to hire. Since many managers are not trained, mistakes abound. If [...]

Thursday October 27th, 2011 in Defining The Job, Hiring Frustrations, Hiring Mistakes, Success Factor Methodology | No Comments »

How Small Companies Can Compete Against Larger Companies For Talent

Q. We are a small growing company. How do we compete for talent with larger companies, since we can’t pay as much as they do? In my search practice I have placed people in small and large companies. The main issue is rarely compensation. In fact, if that is the primary issue then you will [...]

Thursday October 20th, 2011 in Company Culture, Hiring Methodology or Process, Hiring Mistakes, Leadership, Non-monetary rewards | No Comments »

Is Reference Checking Worthwhile?

Q. What do you recommend when it comes to checking references and is it even worth the effort? Reference checking when done correctly can be very powerful. I believe the problem isn’t with checking references, but rather how the reference check is performed. Most reference checking is more of a box checking exercise than what [...]

Thursday October 13th, 2011 in Hiring Mistakes, Reference Checking, Validation and Verification | No Comments »

We Have Jobs – Where Are All Of The Candidates?

Q. We thought with unemployment as high as it is we wouldn’t have any problem finding people. However, the opposite seems to be happening. We get a lot of resumes, but the people are not the right fit, they don’t have the right experience or skills, and often aren’t even close to what we are [...]

Thursday October 6th, 2011 in Finding Candidates, Hiring Mistakes, Networking for Candidates, Placing Job Ads | 7 Comments »

How You Can Expand The Pool To Find Qualified Candidates

Q. How can we improve our advertising so it expands the pool of candidates we attract? Most company’s job advertisements actually turn off many candidates which results in a very small pool of candidates to choose from. If you want to expand the pool of candidates your ads attract, you probably need to change your [...]

Thursday September 15th, 2011 in Hiring Mistakes | No Comments »

Why Hiring Fails: Hiring Mistake #1 – Inadequate Job Descriptions

In one of my last blog posts, I mentioned that I would take the Study we did within the Vistage/TEC Community on Hiring Failure before we wrote our book, and explore the Top Ten Reasons Why Hiring Fails in most companies in greater depth. This blog article explores the first and most critical hiring mistake. [...]

Sunday September 11th, 2011 in Defining The Job, Hiring Mistakes | No Comments »
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