Posts tagged: Top talent

Your Reputation Can Impact Hiring Top Talent

We were retained to conduct a search for a VP of Marketing. The position had been open for more than six months, during which time the company had interviewed ten people who showed little interest in the position or the company. In fact, one offer had been turned down. At first glance this seemed strange, [...]

Thursday December 8th, 2011 in , , , , , | No 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 »

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 »

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 »

What Have You Done to Develop Your Team?

Lack of training, development, and growth is one of the primary reasons your best talent might walk out the door on you sooner than you think! Last week I presented to a group of CEOs who were shocked that I was suggesting they spend any time with their direct reports talking about development, training, engagement, [...]

Wednesday April 20th, 2011 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Your Current Team Might NOT be the Right Team

In working with thousands of companies over the last two decades, I’ve discovered a limiting factor for most entrepreneurial-to-middle market companies:   The team that got you to one place may not be the team to get you to the next place.   A team that is incapable of taking you to where you desire [...]

Monday April 18th, 2011 in , , , , , | No Comments »

Ten Mistakes Using Recruiters (Mistakes 10, 9, 8)

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series 10 Mistake When Hiring A Recruiter

Over the years, we’ve heard a lot of frustration from our clients regarding recruiters. Many of them indicated that using a recruiter feels like throwing money down the drain. Much of the frustration executives experience with recruiters stems from initial mistakes made in hiring the recruiter. We undertook an in-depth survey project conducted over a [...]

Saturday February 5th, 2011 in , , , , , | 2 Comments »

3 Guarantees To Recruiter-Proof Your Best Talent

As recruiters for more than 30 years, my partner Barry Deutsch and I have intuitively known why every now and then a potential candidate we try to recruit says to us, “Thanks for the call, but I really like my position.”  Until last year though, we have never actually validated those reasons. Last year I [...]

Monday January 17th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Sabbatical From Writing

Brad and I are back after a month-long sabbatical where we’ve been working diligently preparing for 2011. Contrary to popular opinion, we did not spend December with our feet up on the desk kicking back in Southern California. We’ve been working hard to improve our entire on-line presence. We’ve got an overwhelming number of new [...]

Thursday January 6th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

A+B+C = Top Talent. Defining A,B,C.

Top talent = doing the right things, the right way, the first time + ability to get the most from others + intuitive ability to think and work strategically. Looking deeper into this equation: A) Do the right things, the right way, the first time deals with the tactical functions of the job. The basic [...]

Wednesday November 17th, 2010 in , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »
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