How do you know when and if you have made a successful hire? Gut instinct could be valuable, but this is hardly quantifiable. You could also wait a year to see how a new hire has performed and identify their level of productivity. However, future information isn’t helpful when you are actively hiring now and need to do so with confidence. And while a great handshake may still
Stagnant and declining organizations do not hire new employees. Growing, proactive companies hire and remain in a hiring mode. That said, talent acquisition isn’t always easy and often requires businesses to examine all aspects of their hiring process and candidate evaluation methods. One hiring tool many companies use is personality profile tests.
Personality profiles are
Outsourcing business services has almost become a necessity for many functions of a business today. Getting support and guidance for hiring talent is no different. However, we know that partnering with a recruitment firm often means understanding far more than you may have initially expected.
If you are just beginning to explore this option for your business, or you are
Just because more people are open to new career opportunities now does not mean they are actively looking for them or even immediately applying. Back in 2013,LinkedInshared that as many as seventy-five percent of job candidates were only passively considering a career change.
Sadly, this statistic appears to be changing. Yet, if your recruitment strategies are only
Can you feel it? Those feelings of excitement and achievement that you are pretty confident mirror theirs. The last few weeks of planning, discussing, and evaluating are about to close.
Just one piece of this process remains: having your perfect-fit candidate accept your offer letter. Are you prepared?
In 2020, Glassdoor published anextensive studyanalyzing eleven years
Are you having trouble attracting the right talent to fill an open position at your company? If most job seekers who have applied for the opening seem unfit for the role for one reason or another, you should consider revisiting your job posting. Although it may look innocuous at first glance, there is a good chance it may be causing your organization to miss out on quality
Transparency. We generally understand what this means in the products we purchase and use. Federal regulations require manufacturers to include a plethora of details regarding the ingredients and nutritional levels of the foods we eat. Clothing has fabric content and washing instructions clearly listed. However, transparency in business still seems to be comparatively new.
Sometimes companies will ask the question directly when considering our search firm for their hiring needs.What is your experience in our industry?Other times it’s a bit more subtle.What industries do you work in?Prospective clients often use this information as a qualifier when evaluating a potential partnership with a search firm.
Conventional thinking is that working
Step one, complete. Your organization has decided to work with a recruitment agency and to outsource your talent acquisition services. Great decision! So what’s next? Where and how do you begin to select an agency to work with?
A simple Google search of talent acquisition services in your area will likely turn up a fairly impressive list. How do you evaluate all these
What do (or should) you expect when working with a recruitment agency? If you haven’t worked with one before,industry perceptionsmay have your anticipated results somewhere around skeptical. Yet even if you have partnered with an agency to outsource your recruitment efforts, your expectations will only be as positive as your last experience.
Expectations can be
