Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Talent Attraction”
To enjoy a fully optimized career, you must make a meaningful contribution to the lives of others. Do this by focusing time and talent on helping others harness their greatest gifts, conquer their biggest fears, maximize their true strengths and capture their largest opportunities. The top job of a leader is to develop more leaders, and EVERY institution needs better …
Hiring a new employee is a time-consuming and expensive process that can make human resource and hiring managers feel pressured to cut corners just to get through it. While the frustration is understandable, simply checking the box is a poor approach. A bad hire ends up costing a company in numerous ways, including lost productivity, lost wages, lost revenue, damage …
According to Forbes, the U.S. Department of Labor puts the cost of a bad hire at 30% of the hire’s annual salary. In his book, Topgrading, Dr. Bradford Smart estimates the cost of a mis-hire to be much higher than that of Forbes. On the other hand, McKinsey & Co. states that employing a top performer rather than an average performer …
Your Recruiters WANT to fill your jobs, efficiently and well. This is not specific to internal or external recruiters. As a recruiter, this outlines all we need to know in order to ensure hiring success. Are you ready to impress your upper management by being the one with the best team in the entire business? Do you want to be …
Responsible for a Recruiting Budget? There’s no getting around the fact that it costs money to recruit high-quality job applicants. Even so, your organization can save considerable cash on recruitment costs by engaging in some creative, outside-the-box thinking. We offer these 10 best practices below for finding the candidates your company desires without breaking its recruitment budget. Sign up for …
There is one element common to every individual, relationship, team, family, company, country, economy and civilization throughout the world; this one thing, if removed, will destroy even the most powerful organization, the most successful businesses, the richest economies, the most influential leaders, the greatest friendship, and the heartiest brand. On the other hand, this one thing, when developed and leveraged …
Continuing with the week’s theme of being a professional, consider what it takes to be a dominant force in any endeavor. As we watch or play sports, we all know there are victories, and then there are V I C T O R I E S. Being a football fan, last year’s NCAA season gave us some incredible wins: like West Point barely …
When one thinks of being a pro, our mind often turns to athletes who have reached the pinnacle of performance. By that definition, a professional is anyone who makes a living in a field where many are amateurs, and their work is characterized by reaching seemingly unattainable levels of performance while holding to the highest possible technical and ethical standards in that field.
It’s hard, if not impossible, to make the hiring process a science. While establishing a systematic approach to hiring can and will improve the outcomes, there is still an art to choosing your next new hire. Every artist has theories about why one hiring selection goes smoothly and another one does not, but as any good manager can tell you, it …
