It’s All About the People: Hiring Tips for Managers

Hiring is tough, and we’ve put together some hiring tips for managers to use during their recruiting process. Ultimately people are at the heart of an organization and nothing is more important than getting the right people into the right roles – and we’re here to help!

Find The Best Candidate During The Recruiting Process

The recruiting process can be tedious when relying on traditional methods. Finding the best candidates in the recruiting process can be especially challenging, considering your top candidate is most likely a passive candidate, relying on social media and other creative strategies is crucial.

Strengthen Your Hiring by Recruiting for Potential, Not Direct Work Experience

Obsessing over candidates’ direct work experience instead of their potential could be sabotaging your recruitment efforts. Concentrating too intensely on direct work experience ignores other experiences that inform the behaviors of the best talent. If employers don’t give these workers a chance, they’ll really never know what they could be missing.

Retaining Talent In A Challenging Economy

In this highly competitive market for capable employees, employers need to consider fresh ways to motivate and retain their best performers. Truly accomplished staff is hard to find and even harder to keep. Provide enough perks, promote enough benefits, and soon employees will see these incentives as essentials. They become so core to the work experience that the employee can’t imagine leaving them behind for a new employer.

Remember To Follow Up!

You’re busy. I’m busy. We’re all busy. And yet most of us are looking for new clients, or to do more business with existing clients. So why do we often fail to follow up?

Hiring Smart Rather than Managing Tough is EASY

As the hiring manager, it should be your absolute #1 priority to hire the right people. Too often, we see companies wasting enormous amounts of time managing C players, rather than investing in making smart hires. How do you avoid hiring the wrong people, and ultimately hire ONLY the right people? Here are 5 things the BEST hiring managers are doing.

4 Ways to Make Your Company More Millennial Friendly

Millennial retention rates are incredibly tiny. Companies are left scratching their heads wondering why their millennial workforce always seems to jump ship. Just 13% of millennials in one study agreed that someone should stay in a company for at least five years before leaving. We are going to show you four of the best ways to make your company millennial-friendly.

Dear Employers: Here’s Why You Can’t Hire Top Talent.

Dear Company,Its not you, it’s me. Well actually it is YOU.I really didn’t know what I was getting myself into when I agreed to interview,and now that we’ve met, here are the reasons why it’s not going to work out between us:

The Secret to Creating a Great Job Description

“Can you vision the next step in your career?” Are you going to continue reading this job description? The average job description lists job duties, qualifications, and required experience. Job description effectiveness is only 34 percent, and there are 4 million online postings per month. The reality is that most job seekers spend less than 2 minutes reading a job posting. Here is what you need to do to post a job description worthy of grabbing the attention and response of top talent.

Recruiting the Millennial Generation

For years, companies have labeled Millennials as entitled and narcissistic. But as savvy employers can tell you, this simply isn’t true. Millennials, also known as Generation Y, are just different. As a generation, they’re more confident, tech savvy, optimistic, and connected than previous generations. But they also differ in what they want, the skills they bring to the table, and how they communicate.