You should hire someone when you need to hire someone. More than 650,000 Americans work as recruiters. You may think that that number is excessive. You know that recruiters help fill job positions, and that is the truth about them. But that’s only part of the truth. What does a recruiter do?…...
4 Signs Your Startup Needs an Executive Search Firm
Executive search firms might seem like a luxury relegated to Fortune 500 companies with huge advertising budgets, but that just is not the case! Nearly every industry has a network of recruitment firms dedicated to cultivating experienced executive recruits. And better yet—they cater to businesses of every size, at every…...
Hiring mistakes are valuable learning opportunities
When hiring managers set out to fill a vacancy, they’re often thinking of all the characteristics they’d like to identify in a new hire: hard-working, intelligent, capable of productive collaboration with other employees and so on. However, in their search for the right candidate, companies also have to actively avoid choosing…...
How to set career goals and plan out your professional future
Setting goals is essential to advancing your career and feeling fulfilled by your job. Whether your employer requires you to set goals as part of your performance-review process or it is something you do voluntarily once a year with a pen and paper in your living room, it can help…...
How Companies Will Balance In-Person and Virtual Recruiting in a Post-Pandemic World
The sudden shift to an all-virtual hiring and recruiting process last year came with both pros and cons. On the one hand, scheduling interviews became a breeze, the need to organize travel was eliminated, and recruiters had more opportunities to source great talent from all over the world. At the same…...
Why Unconscious Hiring Bias is Deadly & How to Get Rid of It
Unconscious biases can be poison for a company by capping growth and stunting improvements. Because bias often resides in the parts of our brain we’re not usually aware of it, it can have a powerful impact on how hiring decisions are made. Want to know more? Let’s dive in. …...
This Is the Key Difference Between Good and Great Recruiters
In a recent study, we compared the performance of the best executive recruiters to their corporate, RPO, and agency counterparts. The results are in and here’s the short list of what the best recruiters do differently: More high-touch, career-advisory role when dealing with candidates More trusted, have strong job knowledge, and are…...
20 Traits Successful Senior Executives Share
While leadership styles vary from person-to-person, great executives share a number of common, observable behaviors that support their success. 20 Characteristics Most Successful Senior Executives Have in Common: They are competitive. They approach every business situation as a competition. They are dedicated to continuous improvement. They do not settle for "good enough"…...
How to Fill Executive Sales Positions at Short Notice
At some point or another, every successful company will find itself in a position where key personnel decide to move on to other opportunities. And when these people fill essential roles like Chief Sales Officer or VP of sales, it creates an urgent and immediate need to find a replacement. …...
4 Clues That You’re About to Make a Bad-Hiring Decision
The cost of your company’s bad hiring decisions can be staggering. To calculate this cost, I tell my clients to add the first-year turnover rate to the percentage of people who the company wouldn’t rehire. This number is your company’s Bad Hiring Rate (BHR). Next, I ask them to multiply…...
Now Is an Unprecedented Opportunity to Hire Great Talent
While the Covid-19 pandemic hits and reshapes companies, industries, national economies, and our society in previously unthinkable ways, business leaders need to think beyond survival to the opportunities this crisis might create, not only for their own organizations but the greater good. Chief among these is a chance to hire…...
Recruiting Scams to Watch Out For
During this time of high unemployment, scammers go into overdrive. When people are in need of work, they’re more likely to fall for common scams. This is especially true for scams that claim to offer work-from-home opportunities—something in high demand for those who cannot return to their previous line of…...
Talent Acquisition Best Practices in Times of Uncertainty
For some companies, hiring continues during the COVID-19 pandemic, with many needing to bring new employees physically onboard to serve customer or product development needs. In an environment of confusion, mixed messages, and fear, what should employers be doing during the talent acquisition process to ensure both new and…...
What You Need to Ask the Hiring Manager In Order to Source the Right Candidate
If a recruiter ever needs to present more than 3-4 candidates in order to make one great hire, there is something fundamentally wrong with the hiring process being used. And, if two of the remaining three aren’t aren’t strong backups, something is even bigger is wrong. Having just finished…...
19 Ways to Nudge Your Career in the Right Direction
When you’re asked to explain why you should be promoted, get a raise or be hired for a new job, it can make you feel uncomfortable. Why? Because you’re forced to talk about yourself—something that your mother told you never to do. Well, there’s a better way to get…...
Recruiting the Class of 2020 Won’t Be the Same Due to COVID-19
Congrats to the class of 2020! On behalf of everyone everywhere, we want to be the first to apologize for how your final year of school ended! Graduation ceremonies have been canceled, and you won’t get the same experience of walking onto the stage and getting your diploma handed to…...
