6 Strategic Hiring Tips to Improve Your Process Right Now

How to Improve Your Hiring Process  To avoid costly mis-hires, organizations should:  Define the role with stakeholder buy-in.  Slow down to bypass “10-second” gut biases.  Follow a repeatable process to ensure consistency.  Use multi-measure assessments (Cognitive + Behavioral).  Standardize interviews with structured questions.  Standardize interviews with structured interview questions. Research by Brandon Hall Group found a staggering 95% of organizations […]

Why You’ll Regret a Confidential Search for a Key Hire

The Dangers of Confidential Hiring While a confidential search might seem like a way to avoid organizational pain, it often leads to failure. Choosing a “covert” route typically results in:  Lower Candidate Quality: High-level talent rarely applies to “blind” listings.  Cultural Erosion: Secret searches damage employee trust and psychological safety.  Higher Turnover: Without stakeholder buy-in, new hires have a significantly […]

Right Fit Candidates

Are you struggling to attract right fit candidates? If so, you aren’t alone. After all, hiring for “fit” leads to positive outcomes that include greater employee commitment, longevity with the organization, superior job performance, productivity and job satisfaction. Those outcomes have real bottom-line impact; what employer wouldn’t want them? The art of attraction is always timely where […]

Retaining Leaders

Conduct regular stay interviews with every employee you can’t afford to lose this year. As you fine tune your company’s strategic plan for the coming year, consider that your key leaders may not be there to implement it. According to job search engine SimplyHired, January is the busiest month of the year for job searches. […]

Behavioral Interviewing Guide

Are you still winging it in interviews, asking questions you think are interesting or clever, making hiring decisions based on your gut instinct? You can do better. Much, much better, as it turns out. Because companies have been bombing at hiring…big time. Even talented executives at top companies botch hiring. To quote Laszlo Bock, hiring […]

Continuous Recruitment

I recently read an interesting article in Inc. Magazine that explored tactics for employers in smaller, less appealing towns to attract top-grade talent. One of the suggestions I found particularly interesting was to “hire, especially when you don’t need to.” Distinct from ongoing recruitment —which is also an increasing trend— in their example, Orion Energy Systems of Manitowoc, […]