Let’s face it. Team building activities can be awkward. When you’re used to interacting with folks in a professional context, letting loose can be a challenge, especially when you’re asked to be vulnerable. However, the benefits of strong peer relationships in the workplace are unparalleled, especially when it comes to organizational…...
How Social Media Can Help You Find and Hire the Right Candidate !
Employee recruitment has changed markedly over the past decade. Organizations must drastically expand their human resource in a progressively competitive atmosphere. Accordingly, social media recruiting strategies are essential to attract the best candidates. Social media recruitment describes identifying and hiring talent through social media. Businesses can use this employee recruitment strategy…...
How to Approach Setting Realistic Sales Goals in 2023
Setting meaningful as well as realistic goals is a skill that all sales leaders know is crucial. When looking at sales goals, let us clarify that they need to be both meaningful, with a focus on hard, not vanity metrics. They also must be realistic to your industry, region, market,…...
20 Must Have New Year Resolutions for Business Professionals
Looking back at the previous year, it's time to look ahead. Refreshing and recharging are what you need to get the most out of the new year. What can you do differently this year? You can start with these 20 new year resolutions Read the full article at: blog.xoxoday.com...
What Does a Recruiter Do? Your Guide
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…...
