Posts tagged: Success Factors

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 , , , , , , , | No Comments »

You Can Shorten Your Hiring Process

Q. We are a mid-size company that doesn’t hire that often. It seems that when we want to hire it takes a long time just to find qualified candidates. Is there a way to shorten the time it takes to hire someone? A. Hiring fast rarely includes hiring the very best. The best way to [...]

Thursday May 12th, 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 »

10 Mistakes Companies Make When Hiring Recruiters

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series 10 Mistake When Hiring A Recruiter

This will be a series in which I discuss what research showed to be the ten biggest mistakes companies make when working with recruiters. This doesn’t mean recruiters don’t make mistakes. The purpose of the series is to assist companies in getting the most value when selecting or using a recruiter. I’m regularly asked about [...]

Tuesday February 1st, 2011 in , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , , , | No Comments »

A Candidate’s Background & Experience Are Irrelevant

Just to clarify, I said “irrelevant.” I didn’t say “not important.” Since most people have been taught interviewing is about the candidate’s background and experience, the interviewer tends to ask a lot of questions about the past. For example, “What have  you done in this area?”  or ” Have you ever done _____?”  Those trained [...]

Monday August 30th, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

“She Seemed Perfect For The Position.” What Went Wrong?

These are the exact words of a CEO I was recently talking with about a search to replace a candidate they had hired six months earlier and wasn’t performing.  The CEO explained how they had spent a lot of time with the candidate, she had multiple interviews, she completed a DISC assessment, and simply put, [...]

Monday August 16th, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

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 »

Jobless recovery – been there, done that.

There is a lot of talk about the “jobless recovery.” Well, I’ve been there, done that – back in the 70′s. Seems like the glass half-empty versus the glass half-full syndrome to me. Don’t get me wrong, if you’re in transition or out on your own trying to “drum up business,” this is a very [...]

Monday March 22nd, 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 »
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