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Good Managers Doing Great Work with People
Organizations want to keep the right people—those people who contribute and move the business forward. When management focuses on...
Nov 25, 20151 min read


Philosophical Alignment is Key to Engaged Happy Employees
When people are hired and on boarded into an organization that they are philosophically aligned with and they are hired into roles that...
Nov 24, 20151 min read


Bring Transformational Thinking to Work and Shift Employee Engagement
Magi Graziano, is the CEO of KeenAlignment, a speaker, author, Business owner and employee engagement and recruitment expert in 21st...
Nov 23, 20151 min read


Optimized, Engaged People are the Key to Organizational Success
An optimized workforce means that the right people are focused on the right things. The right things might look like increased sales,...
Nov 20, 20151 min read


A ConsciousHiring™ Mindset Elevates Workforce Productivity
Many companies are still using outdated hiring techniques. Clinging to the hiring ways of the past leads to high turnover, stagnant...
Nov 18, 20151 min read


Choosing the Right Assessment Tools
Over 500 different personality assessment tools are in use today, and several of the new products are derivatives of previous products,...
Sep 10, 20151 min read
Employee Retention
First and foremost, employee retention starts with effective recruitment. Basically, you must make sure that what you offered when you...
Sep 10, 20151 min read


Drivers of Engagement
The number one reason people leave jobs is because of an ineffective relationship with their manager. People don’t leave companies or...
Sep 10, 20152 min read


Talent Acquisition
Companies that need to recruit and hire high caliber talent for customer facing of roles are relying more and more on the strength of...
Sep 10, 20152 min read


Employee Retention begins with people and business alignment
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
Feb 2, 20155 min read


Recruiting Does Not Require a PhD
Recruiting does not require a PhD, it requires common sense, work ethic, ability to be with and read people and determination. My...
Dec 2, 20142 min read
The I Don’t Give A Shit” Management Epidemic”
Over the past few weeks I have connected with many friends and colleagues who have spent their adult life connected to and around Talent...
Nov 5, 20141 min read
Mobile Recruiting – 84% of The U.S. Enterprise TA Departments Are Falling Behind
Excellent Article by Jason Bus Yesterday we shared 20 Mobile Recruiting Insights from #mrec13, and we’ve added another 25 below. 2013...
Sep 25, 20131 min read


Start Up Hiring – Scale Or Fail
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
Sep 10, 20134 min read
10 Mistakes Job Seekers Make And How to Avoid Them
Career Coach and Author Ford R. Myers Highlights 10 Little-known but Deadly Mistakes That Can Stop a Job Search Dead in its Tracks!...
Sep 9, 20134 min read


Preparing For The Behavioral Interview
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
Sep 4, 20134 min read


The Skilled Labor Shortage-And What To Do About It.
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
Aug 30, 20133 min read


Comprehensive Role Analysis: The Lifeline of Performance
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
Aug 20, 20132 min read
Your Job Is Not Who You Are!
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...
Aug 19, 20131 min read
Recruiting-Resume/Digital Profile Checklist
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
Aug 19, 20133 min read
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