Posts tagged: job description

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 , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Hiring Top Talent Requires a Process

We have discovered that in many companies the hiring process is random, unstructured, and often the people are not highly skilled at hiring. It is no wonder that for many companies hiring top talent is a challenge. Most companies typically have very sophisticated processes and procedures for just about every activity except hiring. This in [...]

Thursday November 3rd, 2011 in , , , , | No 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 , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Is Experience Overrated in Selection?

Anthony Young posed the question in a posting on the Ad Age Blog whether experience was overrated in selecting advertising agencies. Here’s a short excerpt of what he said: In new business, agencies frequently like to speak to their experience, but do clients place the same importance on it? In a recent new-business meeting we [...]

Monday April 25th, 2011 in , , , , , | No Comments »

When did accepting mediocre performance become the new normal?

  Everyone is talking about what the “new normal” is in our post-recessionary period. Is it getting by with fewer employees, being more nimble on execution, or learning how to be more responsive to customers. In the “new normal”, do employees have higher expectations, customers bring more demands, and suppliers want to partner on a [...]

Wednesday March 30th, 2011 in , , , , , , | No Comments »

Are You Over-Paid?

You’re probably thinking – how could Barry make such an outrageous statement. Over-paid – Ugh! I’m actually under-paid. But wait a minute – are you being paid for the outcomes you deliver or is it one of entitlement for the position you hold? Why am I even asking this question? In a presentation of our [...]

Wednesday March 16th, 2011 in , , , , | No 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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

What Role Does Luck Play When Hiring Sales People?

If you’re praying that luck will help – you’re doomed to mediocre and average hires. Improve the probability of hiring top talent in your sales function. Barry and Brad discuss the elements of a rigorous hiring process for ensuring that you’ll hire top-notch sales professionals. Components discussed in this radio program include finding and recruiting [...]

Thursday September 16th, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , , , , | No Comments »
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