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First and foremost, employee retention starts with effective recruitment. Basically, you must make sure that what you offered when you...

The number one reason people leave jobs is because of an ineffective relationship with their manager. People don’t leave companies or...

Companies that need to recruit and hire high caliber talent for customer facing of roles are relying more and more on the strength of...

What Do Josh Bersin, Human Awareness and ConsciousHiring™ Have in Common? When I first invented the concept of ConsciousHiring ™️ in early 2002, I wanted to empower business leaders in growing and developing their teams. After my own struggles with growing my staffing firm, my coach shared some concepts about hiring that were foreign to me. Even with all my experience, awards and Kudos for operating an exceptional Recruiting firm the concept of analyzing what I needed from m

Recruiting does not require a PhD, it requires common sense, work ethic, ability to be with and read people and determination. My...

Over the past few weeks I have connected with many friends and colleagues who have spent their adult life connected to and around Talent...

Excellent Article by Jason Bus Yesterday we shared 20 Mobile Recruiting Insights from #mrec13, and we’ve added another 25 below. 2013...

The basics are handled, your to do lists are checked off and you are poised to start growing. Market Need—check Business Plan—check Product Ideation and Development—check New Accounts Generating Revenue—check Funding—check Hiring—uncheck Most start-ups are created out of a founder’s passion and vision for how the world could be with their product or service in use everywhere. An inspired founder typically attracts friends, colleagues and family members to their team; howeve

Career Coach and Author Ford R. Myers Highlights 10 Little-known but Deadly Mistakes That Can Stop a Job Search Dead in its Tracks!...

We’ve all been there, sitting in the waiting room, palms sweating trying to memorize the “right answers” while we are desperately scanning our resume, looking for the right thing to say (like we don’t know where we have worked and what we have done). Interviews can be just as terrifying as public speaking, except you don’t know what’s coming! You want to be prepared, but so does the interviewer. They want to get to know you and figure out if you’re the right person for this

The Problem One of the sole competitive advantages your business has is the people you hire to carry out your mission. Running a company effectively now and in the future is directly related to your ability to choose the right people for the right roles and retain them for the right period of time. Your ability to stay in the marketplace and stay on top hinges on how well you maximize the returns on your people investments, leverage the strengths of your mission-critical play

Employment turnover cost the US economy a trillion dollars last year. What is it costing your company? The estimated costs of a poor hire run from three to seven times a person’s salary, especially in sales or management. With stiff competition, costs rising and margins shrinking, no company can afford $300,000 or more per bad hire. Your workforce is fuel for the business engine.Imagine how your business could perform if you were empowered to create the workforce you always w

I get the coolest daily emails – this one struck a big cord with me today! Your job is not who you are, your car is not who you are, your...

Regardless of where you find candidates, it is important to be aware of the power behind a Resume or these days, the candidates’ Digital Identity. How can you best utilize the digital identity and or resume to your advantage? In the early days of ConsciousHiring™ we had a Resume Red Flag check list. While many elements of that check list still matter, the way we interpret those elements needed to shift to reflect the new world we are living in. It starts with creating a matc

An effective business strategy needs more than an arbitrary directive from the CEO. Developing and implementing an effective strategy...

If people are the fuel for business engine, a high performing group of people is key for business success. Creating a Talent Strategy that puts people first encourages high performance. With studies, news anchors and special programming all geared around the lack of employee engagement savvy business leaders are working diligently to harness the power of employee engagement and unleash the potential of their workforce. Employees who are respected, valued and motivated to perf

Never before have US companies had a harder time keeping their employees ALIVE and PRESENT at work. Maybe this FREE Agent mindset people are talking about has some real perks for both sides of the equation. I have been studying employment and work-place dynamics for over twenty years and one could say that I have seen my fair share of “best places to work” as well as, my fair share of “where is the excape hatch” places to work. If a hire is made and it is not a fit, then i

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Employee happiness is at an all time low and Hiring Managers need to wake up and look at the cost on their bottom line. In the US alone...

For over five years I have been working to perfect the ConsciousHiring™ process. What started as a 26 step job requisition, candidate...