Meet Our Woman of the Month: Amee Aragon

Amee is one of Wejungo’s finest employees and we couldn’t be more proud to interview her in honor of Women’s History Month. Amee began working with us after a career break from one of the most important jobs, being a mom to her 3 young children. We have chosen to spotlight Amee because she is an outstanding example of a woman who truly “does it all”. Get to know Wejungo’s woman of the month!

Why We Love Women (And You Should, Too!)

Women make a HUGE positive difference for businesses. Not only are they exceptionally engaged managers, they balance work and life extremely well but they also excel at providing positive feedback. All have a tremendously positive impact on businesses including increasing productivity, engagement, retention, communication, creativity and profit.

Hiring Managers: How to Interview Better

Organizations must invest in educating and empowering their employees to increase the chances that every single hire will be GREAT. So, for the hiring managers who have not been trained yet, here are 5 simple tips for you BEFORE you interview a candidate.

Yes: Hiring Managers AND anyone who interviews candidates NEED interview training

Many hiring managers conduct unstructured interviews, have unconscious biases and make their hiring decision based off who they feel good about. And more often than not ? the candidates they hire are underperforming, not a culture-fit, or they simply don’t last. Here are three things to expect when a hiring manager is properly trained on interviewing.

Why Companies Fail Within the First 2 Years

Companies are struggling with finding and keeping the right leaders. Not only are leaders becoming scarce, but also the leaders that companies do have are failing quickly. In fact, a three-year study of over 20,000 employees reveals that 46% of newly-hired executives fail within the first 18 months.

Leadership Challenges in the Workforce

As a leading talent strategy-consulting firm in California, we’ve identified two common challenges that leaders frequently face today. Getting managers to provide timely feedback and hiring managers rushing the recruiting process are two big challenges that leaders are facing. Here are tips on how to overcome them.

Employee Loyalty Is The New Recruiting

As a leading talent management and consulting firm in Southern California, we’ve helped many companies reduce employee turnover and increase engagement by creating new hiring strategies. Cultivating employee engagement and earning their loyalty is just as important as finding the next superstar employee?and if you did find a superstar employee, how will you keep them?

Strengthen Teams with Leadership & Talent Management

When we are helping companies re-engage their employees it only takes a slight change in focus, from the busy-ness of the work day, shifting over to spending maybe 4 hours to plan something like a quarterly event. Leaders can start to strengthen teams by doing these three things.

Part 4: Uncover Top Talent

Understanding WHERE the talent is in the market is the first step to hiring top talent. Sometimes, top talent isn’t where you think.Many companies believe when they post an ad on a job board they are accessing ALL of the talent pool ? but this is WRONG!

Counter Offers: To do or not to do

Did you just give your two weeks notice and receive a counter offer in return? What do you do? How do you make the decision if you should stay or go? Here are 6 things to consider BEFORE accepting a counter offer from your current employer.