Updates on the latest on hiring, management and careers.
Part of my responsibility as CEO of our recruiting firm is to debrief with clients and candidates quarterly and review every engagement with our team to understand how we can add greater value. This quarter one theme was pervasive: Candidates Have Options. In the past, hiring managers could pick from a group of interested candidates…
Earlier this month, I had a conversation with a friend— a CHRO of a $1.5B company who has excelled for more than 25 years in critical roles with prestigious companies. We talked about several talent-centered topics, all of which are top of mind for many CHROs. Part of our conversation went something like this: CHRO:…
We are living in a candidate driven job market. At the highest rate since 2010, there are more job openings than there are available candidates to fill them, which means candidates are in the driver’s seat. A strong labor market is great for employees who are in search of better opportunities, and those who have…
What is a common frustration of many hiring managers? Finding the right talent to fill open roles. For Recruiters and HR Professionals, the challenge is similar: finding qualified candidates to share with hiring managers. With the national unemployment rate hovering just above 4%, it is likely those qualified candidates are currently working someone else. How…
Over the last few months, we have received multiple questions regarding Right to Represent (RTR) documents. We hope that this article sheds some light on what they are and how they benefit everyone involved. The staffing and recruitment sector is evolving and moving more toward automation. Many of the new processes and procedures that companies…
The most important action you can take in building and developing your sales team is a hiring decision. Sales talent is not only hard to identify; but also, a skill that many of your hiring managers have never been trained on. While some organizations may have a set block of questions for each stage in…
Has this ever happened to you? It’s frustrating…and costly. After countless hours of sourcing, screening, and interviewing you identify the right candidate and make the offer only to have the candidate decline. You try to negotiate but realize the opportunity is lost and you must start the entire process again. Painful as it may be,…
It seems like the ideal situation – you have an offer from a new employer and your current boss makes you a counter-offer. However, this situation may not be as ideal as it seems. Talent management professionals educate candidates on counter-offers, but they are still tempting. To get a better sense of counter-offers and their…
The terms Recruitment and Talent Acquisition are often used interchangeably but industry thought leaders understand that there is a distinct difference. Understanding this difference and adapting your internal processes accordingly will help your company evolve its hiring procedures and help you attract the top talent available on the market. First let’s define each term. Then…
Welcome to the talent shift! More than 40 percent of American workers will likely be independent contractors by the year 2020, according to numerous sources. But while half of Americans currently say they prefer traditional employment, that creates a challenge. It appears that workers would prefer the best of both worlds… the independence of freelancing and…
