On our Hire and Retain Top Talent Blog, we recently posted a video of our Research Project titled The Top Ten Mistakes in Hiring. You can download a copy of the Executive Summary of the Top Ten Hiring Mistakes Research Project by clicking here. The blog post with the video of the Top Ten Mistakes [...]
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Finding good sales people
Why is it so hard to hire great salespeople? Because sales is a four letter word and nobody is buying right now. So sales must change. Incentives must change. Expectations must change.
Is the Issue of Delayed Gratification Important in Success vs. Failure?
Vistage Chair Mark Taylor, put forth the interesting idea that perhaps success or failure is determined by delayed gratification. Here are a few of the comments Mark made in his blog post: In this six minute TED talk, Joachim de Posada, author of Don’t Eat The Marshmallow Yet!: The Secret to Sweet Success in [...]
Candidates Just Can't Get Any Respect
I came across this great post on the About.com Human Resources site. The primary point that Susan Heathfield makes is that candidate’s deserve a response, they deserve the right to know where they stand in your hiring process. She claims and I agree 100% that the candidate you reject deserves the same courtesy of notification [...]
