Are You Assessing Your Assets?
Benchmarking your employees and finding out what actually works is a vital skill for today’s human resources division. Media from the...
Mission: Benchmarking Seminars
Keen Alignment is my company, started to help recruiters do a better job hiring candidates for their clients, and helping staffing firms...
Breaking Goal Setting Into Its Component Parts
This post might best apply to engineers, because we’re taking the goal setting agenda and breaking it into little pieces, to make it...
Leverage Your Power – Set Healthy Goals, Hire a Great Coach!
The following was originally published in the Fordyce Letter, the single best resource any staffing agency can have. So here it is new...
Personal Goal Setting Starts With A Person – You
As most personal trainers will tell you, the problem is not the program, but the person. Pamela Slim covers this in her wonderful blog,...
Goal-Setting Is Hard, But Necessary
But the change of calendar isn’t that motivational. Instead, individuals and companies should focus on what can be accomplished with...
Hiring Trends To Look For In The New Year
Career Builder’s survey of Expected Trends for 2008 is out. The pdf download for the report is here, but a quick list was out together by...
The Value Of HR Outsourcing
The promise of outsourcing is economies of scale. Executives know their companies do certain things well, and to succeed, one must focus...
Excerpts From Staffing World
San Antonio Texas – quaint, steamy, fun, and the temporary home to 3200 or so staffing and recruiting professionals over the month of...
Whose Job Market Is In Anyway?
Why are so many companies putting candidates through the ringer when there are clearly more jobs available than there are qualified...
Being A Recruiting Tour De Force
I am looking forward to participating in & facilitating an Executive Briefing a the NAPS conference on November 1st in San Antonio with...
Time: Use it Wisely
One of the most critical Success Principles is using your time wisely. While squandered money can sometimes be replaced, wasted time is...
Win Win In Winning The War For Talent
Win/Win is not a technique; it’s a total philosophy of human interaction (It is a way of being). In fact, in Stephen Covey’s book, Seven...
Employee Development Power Versus Force
As a manager, have you ever had the experience of trying to ‘make’ an employee change, forcing an outcome from an employee to improve...
Learning To Hire The Best
The Shoemaker’s kids go around with holes in their shoes. I hear this repeatedly as an analogy for how recruitment companies run and...
Do You RPO?
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is a form of business process outsourcing (BPO) where an employer outsources or transfers all or...
Keen Hire’s First Post
Yes indeed it’s true.