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Why It’s So Hard to Find “Good Employees”
Uncovering the reasons why it’s so hard to find “good” employees is a bit like watching the Presidential debates. Some of the information that we hear is politicized for the sole purpose of satisfying a personal agenda. When it’s not good old fashioned bull****, all...
Recruiting & SEO: A Tough Job Market Invites Strange Bedfellows
Recruiting today has a very strange bedfellow –Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Imagine how different recruiting was just a few decades ago when a foreman in a Philadelphia railroad yard manager exited his office, crossed the workplace campus, and was met by a mob of...
6 More Things Every Manager Should Know about DISC – Part 2
In Part 1 of Twelve Things Every Manager Should Know about the DISC Profile Test, I highlighted when and how DISC got started and how it developed into one of the most popular assessments on the planet. In Part 2, you'll learn more about how companies use DISC, the...
12 Things Every Manager Should Know about DISC (Part 1)
DISC is one of the most commonly used and popular employee assessments on the planet. But as is the case with so many things, success attracts evangelists, dedicated advocates, and passionate naysayers. This article attempts to set the record straight about what...
Avoid Making These 5 Common Job Posting Mistakes
“Do you want a bold headline and border” was the biggest decision a recruiter had to make before posting a job ad just a few years ago. It was the equivalent of “do you want fries with your burger?” Despite the impractical urge by many recruiters and HR professional...
Companies Face Recruiting Crisis: Finding Needle in the Haystack!
Are you recruiting enough qualified candidates? If not, you'll need to stand in line with many other companies. For some jobs and for many companies recruiting is like finding the needle in a very large haystack...blindfolded! Anywhere from one-third to one-half of...
How to Identify Employees Who Value Continuous Learning
If you ever wondered if your employees value continuous learning as much as you do (or is required by the industry or your company culture), you'll want to read this post. Companies spend billions of dollars each year on employee training. Unfortunately much of it...
Want to Recruit More Qualified Job Candidates? Start Here!
For starters companies need to recruit job candidates like they are very important customers. That’s not rhetoric or a marketing slogan. They really are important customers! According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, fifty-eight (58) percent of applicants are less...
The Schizophrenic Way Money Motivates
Perhaps poet and author Carl Sandburg said it best: “Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.” It might be fair to say that we are all motivated by money. After all, we need money to put food in our bellies, clothes on our...
Candidate Abandonment: A Recruiter’s Nightmare
Candidate abandonment: If management understood anything about it, they would be livid. It’s the debilitating metric that HR hopes never sees the light of day. The trouble is that few companies track it. Most pay no attention despite the fact that high rates indicate...