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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...
Why “Ghosting” in Recruiting Needs to Stop
After clicking submit on a job application, more than half of applicants sit and wait like abandoned lovers waiting for the phone to ring. Many companies seem to have adopted the foolish practice of “ghosting" when it comes to dealing with job applicants. What's...
Why Aesthetics Matter in a Black-and-White World?
"I see dead trees," Steve told his employer a few years earlier. "And that's why I'm quitting my job." Today Steve designs log cabins for a small manufacturer in PA. He's been working here for about two years. The owner - his boss - loves his work ethic and his...
4 Steps to S.T.O.P Toxic Employees from Ruining Your Company
Advice to deal with toxic employees seem more abundant than sand in a desert. The problem is that without cooperation from the employee you might as well be shoveling with a rake! So let’s begin with the employee or manager who feels his success in life is...
Whack-A-Mole: Why Your Recruiting Process May Be Broken
You might think that with all the trouble companies are having finding enough qualified and skilled workers that the recruiting function would be working like a well-oiled machine! Think again! Recruiting is broken and management should just hang an “out of order”...
