Why Your Job Ad Sucks and You Aren’t Attracting Qualified Talent (FINAL ? Part 3)

The final part of finding the right-fit candidate is all about screening for culture fit. It’s a critical step – and the great news is – it can be done early in the hiring process – starting with the job description/ad! As a company, knowing WHY you’re in business, and not just what you do is the best way to identify your company culture.

Why Your Job Ad Sucks and You Aren’t Attracting Qualified Talent (part 2 of 3)

How can the job description/ad sound LESS like a job and MORE like an opportunity? SIMPLE: Shift your focus from the HAVES to the DOS. Instead of having a checklist of what someone needs to HAVE for a job, focus on what someone has to DO to be successful in a job. Top talent will only leave their current roles for an opportunity ? not just a job . Those employees want to be challenged ? they desire to learn something new. A successful job description/ad outlines the opportunity throughout the entire ad.

Why Your Job Ad Sucks and You Aren’t Attracting Qualified Talent (part 1 of 3)

The best practices in the hiring process start with creating an effective job description. A simple shift in your job description/job ad can dramatically alter the results you’re seeing, from 5%-10% of your applicant pool being quality to 50% or more! Here is part 1 of our 3 part series where we’re going to teach you how to attract top talent starting from the job description.

5 Ways to Improve the Hiring and Recruiting Process

As executive sales and marketing recruiters, we understand the challenges companies, and candidates, face. Interviewing and hiring is tedious, time consuming and repetitive ? and candidates can spend a lot of time interviewing ? with little to no follow up. With a few changes to the hiring process, both candidates and companies can have a more pleasant and effective experience. We’ve picked the top 5 changes that can improve the hiring and interviewing process.

What Type of Detail Oriented Person Are You Hiring?

As one of the leading San Diego recruitment firms, our clients are asking us this question, and others like: How do I interview for soft skills? How can I tell they are truly a hard worker? To assess for soft skills, like detail oriented, there are three things to focus on.

Hiring Practices: The Costly Truth About Bad Hires

As a leading talent management consulting firm, we’ve seen first hand the common hiring mistakes organizations make. Often times our clients don’t even realize the cost of time and money. But we know the money lost, as a result of bad hiring practices, should be a huge wake up call for businesses to do a better, SMARTER job of hiring the right people, the first time. We’ve provided a breakdown to calculate the actual costs of a bad hire.

Hiring a Woman Could Be Your Best Talent Strategy

Gender biases are unfortunately common in many organizations. Understanding the value that women leaders bring to an organization is the first step to overcoming any gender biases that an organization or individual may have. Creating a successful talent strategy includes eliminating unconscious biases during the hiring process ? whether its gender ? or something else and shifting the focus to creating a more inclusive, diverse and balanced workforce.

8 Qualities Found in High-Performers in the Hiring and Interviewing Process

As a talent management consulting firm, we often witness during hiring and interviewing processes, hiring managers are too focused on qualifications like how many years experience a candidate has OR where their degree is from and often overlook 8 must-have qualities.

RECRUITING: Passive or Active: What Pool Should You Fish From?

Since 2010, employment in the private sector has increased by 14.5 million jobs, an average of 194,000 jobs per month. And the unemployment rate has fallen below 4.7%! As one of the top talent strategy firms teaching companies how to hire SMART and a top California executive recruitment firm, we know job seekers have more opportunities than ever to choose from.

A Military Veteran Can Easily Be Your Next Superstar

From working with over 100 companies in the last couple years, we know hiring top talent can be challenging, and knowing where to look is key to filling roles successfully. With thousands of veterans leaving the military every year, hiring a veteran is a great opportunity for organizations to discover top talent.