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Ask any entrepreneur what keeps them up at night, and their answer will be “hiring the right people.” The composition of your staff is...

I’m a big believer in efficiency. Running a business requires me as the business owner to wear many hats, and over the years, I’ve...

Shally Steckerl and Jim Durbin are joining me March 6th and 7th to recap the successful Future of Recruiting seminar we did for the San...

As managers, we often have to deal with ourselves to overcome the Superman syndrome of “I can accomplish anything.” After years of...

Margaret Graziano has worked in the recruiting industry since 1983, and has been using pre-employment assessments and behavioral based...

Back in November, I was speaking at the NAPS convention in San Antonio, and decided to set up an executive briefing with some friends of...

Benchmarking your employees and finding out what actually works is a vital skill for today’s human resources division. Media from the...

Keen Alignment is my company, started to help recruiters do a better job hiring candidates for their clients, and helping staffing firms...

This post might best apply to engineers, because we’re taking the goal setting agenda and breaking it into little pieces, to make it...

The following was originally published in the Fordyce Letter, the single best resource any staffing agency can have. So here it is new...

As most personal trainers will tell you, the problem is not the program, but the person. Pamela Slim covers this in her wonderful blog,...

But the change of calendar isn’t that motivational. Instead, individuals and companies should focus on what can be accomplished with...

The promise of outsourcing is economies of scale. Executives know their companies do certain things well, and to succeed, one must focus...

San Antonio Texas – quaint, steamy, fun, and the temporary home to 3200 or so staffing and recruiting professionals over the month of October. This is the 1st of 2 times I will be visiting the Lone Star state, and I have to say I am excited to be here. Last night we walked down the river walk which was really nice, a mini Venice -well sort of, and we ate as a really great Italian restaurant Paesanos, they even had my favorite Chianti Classico – Ruffino, gold label. So far our

I am looking forward to participating in & facilitating an Executive Briefing a the NAPS conference on November 1st in San Antonio with...

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...