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.

Finders Keepers: How To Get Top Talent to Stay

Attracting top talent is a challenging task in this candidate driven market, but keeping top talent is even tougher. We’ve found 4 tips on how to keep the top talent you already have so employees remain engaged.

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.

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.

Do you Dare Diversify Your Workforce?

There is more to diversity in the workplace than what meets the eye. For example ? think of smartphones – with technology allowing people to view almost anything from anywhere, in a split second. Even tools like Skype or Google circles allow companies to employ talent regionally, nationally and internationally!

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.

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.