Make the most of your fall hiring season Think about it – you have 90 days to get your 2014 hiring done before we enter the holiday season. Average time to hire is 60 days – the bottom line – you don’t have a lot of time! Let’s talk about how to make the most…
The subject of Social Media in the workplace came up this week. I was talking with an executive and explaining how employees can help recruit talent by evangelizing their job, company, team on social media. Of course you can also repel talent thru social media if your people don’t like their jobs, company or team. …
Retention starts before their first day! An effective onboarding program can have a significant impact on your ability to retain great people, help them get up to speed quickly and contribute productively – sooner. The key is to make each new team member feel important and help remove those new job jitters as quickly as…
Get out of neutral Last month we talked about how your company’s reputation has an impact on the candidate profiles that you attract. That’s great if you are happy with the level at which your team is performing, the personality that emanates from your internal community and the people in that community. But what if you want to initiate a change? …
The law of (candidate) attraction I get a lot of comments from hiring managers that they just can’t seem to attract the right people to their open positions. The perception is that there isn’t good talent out there and that is one of the primary challenges affecting company growth. While I agree that we need to continue to promote education…
9 reasons you can’t fill your open positions Welcome to 2014! I hear rumors that many of you are going to be hiring this year – WOOHOO! If it’s been a few years since you were able to add net new positions and actually think about GROWTH then you are pretty excited. You might also be…
Don’t just go with your gut Hiring is not on the top of the list of activities that most leaders enjoy. The process is tedious, long and fraught with errors. If you make the right hire your world will be beautiful – your customers will be happy, your team will enjoy blissful camaraderie, you will…
Using a blended interview format for better outcomes Interviewing techniques are all over the place – each hiring manager has their own style whether learned, imparted upon or self-created. I will assert that for the most part, you are interviewing from the job description and evaluating candidates based primarily on the bullet points in this…
Tips for getting your candidate flow going again In Colorado and in some other parts of the country (primarily those with 3 or 4 seasons) we see a tremendous erosion of candidate activity during the summer months. There are a number of reasons for this phenomenon: Vacations and summer family visits; kids are out of school and that disrupts the…
It looks like it’s finally Springtime in Colorado! Wow……that was one long snow season, huh? Spring means college graduation for thousands of newly minted professionals who are eager to begin their careers. It’s also the time of year when current college students are looking for some relevant work over the summer……keyword internship. If you are…