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…...
Generalist vs Specialist: Which Kind of Recruiter Should You Hire for Your Team?
There’s a saying in certain circles that Java is to JavaScript as car is to carpet. It’s a phrase developers often use to explain their frustration with talent professionals who don’t know as much and, as a result, make some embarrassing missteps in their outreach and interviews — like mixing…...
8 Job Skills To Succeed In A Post-Coronavirus World
As most of us are in lockdown at home, we are left to wonder what a post-coronavirus-world might look like. There’s a lot unknown about how the world will transform after we get the novel coronavirus under control, but it is extremely unlikely that things will just go back to…...
New Recruitment & Training Techniques for HR Management
Staffing is one of the biggest employer challenges, especially in the growing healthcare industry, for example. The unemployment rate in the field has dropped to a mere 2.0%, making employee recruitment and retention critical to your organization’s success. Technology can aid your HR department in the process. Recruitment It’s important to understand…...
8 Values You Should Communicate In Every Job Interview
While the current talent shortage means that you might be getting random calls from recruiters—trying to sweep you away from your current company—it doesn’t mean you should give a marginal effort to your resume and interviews.Source - Read More at: www.forbes.com...
Secrets of Recruiting: How to Get Noticed by Professional Recruiters
How to Get Noticed The average recruiter gets literally hundreds of resumes PER DAY for every ad posted. When a job offers a six-figure income, those figures jump to 1,000 applicants per day, per job. So how do you stand out amongst all the other applicants, vying for these opportunities?…...
The Benefits of Outsourcing Your Recruiting Needs
Recruitment—it’s an integral component of any organization, and a significant task for any Human Resources team. From listing up-to-date job descriptions to short-listing viable candidates for final interviews, recruiting for critical fill roles can easily become a full-time job. Considering the substantial efforts and time commitment involved, it would…...
5 Tips to Hire a Paints and Coatings Sales Professional
In the US alone, the paints and coatings industry produced approximately $31 billion in revenue in the past 12 months. Driving business-customer relationships, and thus playing a crucial role in the industry, are the sales professionals. For the most part, hiring a new salespeople in any industry is part…...
Why Austin Was Just Rated in the Top 4 Best Cities For Job Seekers
As known to most job seekers, recruiters, headhunters and executive search consultants, Austin Texas is a fantastic place to work. Not surprise then that Austin was rated one of the best cities for job seekers in 2017. Numerous sources including Forbes and Money ranked Austin at number 4, bearing…...
