Posts tagged: recruiting process

Growing and Retaining Productive Employees

Recently, on one of the e-mail lists to which I subscribe, a colleague mentioned that he had been counseled by one of his mentors that the best thing he could do for his good employees was to fire a bad employee. Sounds harsh, yet it is true that for the greater good, we have to [...]

Monday March 29th, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Hiring Top Talent – Determining A Cultural Fit – Audio Recording

The number one reason candidates fail in their brand new job is that they cannot deliver your expected results. The second reason is that they cannot adapt to your unique culture and environment. Adapting to your culture must be measured to ensure a successful hire. Unfortunately, measuring the ability to adapt to your culture is [...]

Thursday February 25th, 2010 in , , , , , , | 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 , , , , | 2 Comments »

Can’t Find People? They Are Hiding In Plain Sight – 3 Examples

Finding people is a consistent problem we encounter just about every time we ask CEOs or key executives what their biggest issue is when it comes to hiring. If it isn’t in the top three it is always in the top five. Yet when you ask them what their process is to find top talent [...]

Monday February 1st, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 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 , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

When an “A” Candidate Isn’t an “A” Employee

Has this ever happened? You screened hundreds of resumes, conducted extensive interviews, and found what you believed from the resume and interviews, the candidate that is perfect for the job. Exactly what you are looking for, maybe even better. You have high expectations for this new hire. Then they come on board and fall flat [...]

Thursday December 3rd, 2009 in , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Optimize Your Staffing Decisions by Using In-depth Work Style and Personality Assessment Tools; Part 2

As mentioned in part one of this article, the wrong hiring decision can cost your company well over two to three times the individual’s salary according to Barry Deutsch, Impact Hiring Solutions. This figure may be a conservative estimate because of factors like training, evaluation, termination, re-initiating the hiring process, and lost opportunity costs. There [...]

Monday November 23rd, 2009 in , , , , , , , | 4 Comments »

Choosing Recruiters: Mistake #2 – We Need an Expert

Some executives believe that the only way a recruiter can be successful is to have many years of recruiting in a particular functional category (finance, marketing, human resources, manufacturing), or in a specific industry (construction, bio-technology, education, non-profit, electronics, distribution). Using the criteria of a functional or industry expertise is a classic mistake in choosing [...]

Wednesday November 18th, 2009 in , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Finding Top Talent in a Down Economy: It’s Still Hard Work

Just because the haystack is bigger, it doesn’t mean that there are more needles in it. There’s a misconception in the market now that finding good people is suddenly easy. HR people, hiring managers, and the general public believe that when unemployment is high, recruiters just have to run an ad and tons of top-notch, [...]

Monday November 9th, 2009 in , , , , , , , | 4 Comments »

Choosing Recruiters: Mistake #1 – No Systematic Process

CEOs and Senior Executives in our survey assumed that all retained executive recruiters must have a rigorous process to help clients hire key executives that will deliver expected results. How many times have you crossed your fingers in the hope that the recruiter you hired will hit the bullseye? Conversely, how many times have you [...]

Thursday November 5th, 2009 in , , , , , , | 3 Comments »
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