This Is Where Your Next Great Leader Will Come From
3 Research-Backed Methods for Hiring and Retaining Great Leaders In a plentiful job market, great leaders are tough to find because everyone is looking for work and putting on their best faces trying to stand out. In a tight job market like the one we’re currently in,...
You’ll Keep Missing Out on Top Talent Until You Use This Hiring Secret
5 Ways to Attract the Best New Employees and Win the Competition for Talent Some recent Dilbert comic strips have had fun with the tight hiring market, showing the fictitious company so desperate for talent that they hire a hardened criminal who ends up stealing all...
5-Step Soft Skills Hiring Guide
How to Hire Leaders and Team Members Who Can Adapt to an Ever-Changing Workplace Hard skills are no longer enough. Soft skill competence among your leaders and employees is becoming the key to differentiation. And that means hiring for soft skills is your new top...
4 Outdated Management Styles That Will Drive Your Employees Away
Business Leadership Rooted in the Past Won’t Lead You to the Future They say you’re not a leader if no one is following you. But in a business setting, doesn’t being ‘in charge’ automatically make you a leader? Your employees are, in a way, forced to follow...
The Single Worst Thing You Can Do to Waste a New Employee’s First Day
Plus, 7 Essential Employee Onboarding Strategies That Will Attract and Retain Your Best Team Ever As unemployment creeps ever more downward, employers are asking: “What else can we do to keep our best people?” Here’s the answer: Employee...
Negative Employee Feedback: The Secret to Retaining Your Best Employees
Giving negative employee feedback is one of the keys to business growth. Everyone makes mistakes. No one performs perfectly. Everyone can improve. So – learn how to give constructive feedback in a way that empowers employees. Here are 7 ways to give negative feedback that your
CEO confesses 5 hiring mistakes he used to make
5 Under-the-Surface Hiring Mistakes That Will Erode Your Company Culture and Growth There was a great column recently written by A.J. Mirabedini, the CEO of GKIC, a small-business marketing training company. A.J. offers the wisdom of experience, revealing several...
The Secret to Hiring Top Talent In a Low-Unemployment Economy
How to Fill Your Most Crucial Positions While Having More Free Time Irony is a funny thing. We want the economy to do well, because that means our businesses will grow. But now that businesses are growing, unemployment is super low. And low unemployment means it’s a...
3 Reasons Referral Hiring Isn’t As Effective As You Think
Are employee referrals an effective way to hire? This question comes up a lot. The idea is to leverage your employees’ networks and get referrals to candidates they already know are qualified. The advantages of referral-based hiring are obvious. Fewer unknowns, easier...
How to Write a Perfect Job Description That Attracts Dream Candidates and Repels Unqualified Ones
5 Secrets to Making Your Job Descriptions Compel People to Apply
Get Past the Resume – How Employment Personality Tests Give You the Deep Insights You Need Before Hiring for Key Positions
What do you really care about when hiring someone? Is it their degree, or their work ethic? Their previous experience, or how well they get along with people? Of course degrees and experience matter. But lots of people have them. That’s the easy part of hiring. All...
Is Your Slow Employee Hiring Process Costing You the Best Job Candidates?
Why Does Hiring Have to Take So Long? Short answer: It doesn’t! Sad answer: For most companies today, it’s getting worse. Scary answer: Your company is at risk of falling into the Unfilled Positions Vortex. According to a well-known Glassdoor study, the average...
8½ culture-boosting ways to thank your staff
Employees want to be appreciated, and you can never do it too much. Find some time this month to thank and appreciate your staff. The more personalized, the better. If you don’t know them well enough to thank them for specific accomplishments or character qualities,...
Why everyone hates resumes
Employers hate them. Job-seekers hate them. But for some reason, everyone continues to treat resumes as the primary gateway to hiring. Take a look at just a few of the reasons no one likes resumes. Employers hate resumes because… It’s too hard to find relevant...
The IT Worker Apocalypse Is Coming
How Will You Find Qualified AND Self-Motivated Employees? You’ve got the plan. You know the technology. And your customers are desperate for it. Sounds like the perfect place for a business, right? Many Information Technology companies are sitting right there – at the...
Is the Fear of Hiring Holding Back Your Business?
Hiring the wrong employee can do serious short and long term damage to your company.