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Selecting a Headhunter
By Tim Augustine
Choosing the right search firm means carefully weighing and considering your company's needs and the search firm's expertise and fees.
Hiring for the Right Reasons
By Will Helmlinger
What are the most important habits that successful employees exhibit? The answer is, "it depends." Hiring managers may say hard skills, experience, or education. However, not having the right soft skill competencies can lead to termination more easily.
How to Attract, Hire and Retain Millennials
By Tim Augustine
Key characteristics that need to be understood in order to attract, hire and retain this group of very productive, task oriented, multitasking, and technically astute green horns.
Keeping Your "A-Team"
By Will Helmlinger
Establishing expectations and a disciplinary process for non-performing talent can help you determine whether to keep them -- and how to get rid of them.
Be Interested, Not Interesting
By Tim Augustine
The purpose of interviewing is to learn more about the candidate; understand his skills, knowledge, education, experience, and cultural fit; and assess his interest in your firm. Then why do interviewers talk so much?
Ramping Up
By Will Helmlinger
Finding great employees these days has become more competitive. Here's a round up of resources you can use to find potential candidates, and how they work.
People Integration During Mergers
By Tim Augustine
If you want a merger or acquisition to really succeed, you must consider the employee integration process, and how the merging of the two companies will affect them.
Performance Reviews and Employee Development
By Will Helmlinger
An employee evaluation or performance review process is a great way to market your company to your employee and further develop your existing talent.
Diversity Builds Businesses
By Tim Augustine
Different perspectives and ideas can spring firms back to life.
Shaping Tomorrow's Leaders
By Will Helmlinger
A strong, consistent mentoring program can help you develop strong leaders in-house and show that your company is committed to its employees.
Get Ready for Battle
By Tim Augustine
The war for talent is on. How will you find the qualified hires to grow your business?
Laying a Foundation
By Will Helmlinger
Employees shouldn't be expected to hit the ground running. Use this very simple two-step process to ensure new hires start off on the right foot.
Critical Hires for a Start-Up Firm
By Tim Augustine
Your business plan is done -- now get to work finding team members to help you put it into action.
Building a Bonus Program
By Will Helmlinger
Having the right tools in your recruiting and re-recruiting tool chest will help you become an employer of choice for both existing employees and promising candidates.
Reconnect with Promising Candidates
By Tim Augustine
The beginning of the year is an excellent time to start recruiting those employees disenchanted with their current situations.
The Making of an Employee Handbook
By Will Helmlinger
An employee handbook should explain more than rules. It offers you the opportunity to set expectations and communicate your company's mission and culture as well.
Don't Wait for the Exit Interview
By Tim Augustine
Be as proactive as possible and try to gain as much feedback from staff during their tenure as opposed to relying on exit interviews to implement change.
Re-Recruit Your Employees
By Will Helmlinger
While it's important to recruit new employees, it is just as important to create a process by which you're constantly re-recruiting your existing ones.
Beware of the "F" Word
By Tim Augustine
If a position in your firm cannot be "forgettable" then be sure to fill it with a candidate who not only has the technical skills, but also the personality and cultural fit that will leave a great first impression with anyone he or she meets.
Do Your Employees Possess the Right Competencies?
By Will Helmlinger
Measuring soft skills in an objective manner helped a hospitality company find its perfect fit. Could it work for you?
Building a Network of Future Employees (Part 1)
By Colleen Aylward
Social networking services can help you build a database of potential employees and your business's brand at the same time.
Back to School for Candidates
By Tim Augustine
Develop a college recruitment program that builds your firm's brand and identifies future stars.
What's in a Title?
By Will Helmlinger
Considering a job title from all perspectives--including from your customers', your existing employees', even your community's--will help you determine the most appropriate and meaningful job title for a new employee.
Grow Your Future Leaders
By Tim Augustine
Show new and potential employees the growth opportunities in your business by building a program that cultivates leaders from within.
You Got Attitude!
By Will Helmlinger
All employees have attitudes that can positively--or negatively--affect the performance of your company. Here's how to determine what your employees' attitudes are and how to use this information to ensure they're fulfilled by--and productive in--their work.
Annual Judgment Day
By Tim Augustine
Why do performance reviews have to be so painful?
Standing Out in the Crowd
By Will Helmlinger
Make your job advertisement something applicants want to read and take action on.
Measuring Up
By Colleen Aylward
A new generation of assessment tools goes beyond measuring personality traits. They take a more holistic approach to evaluating a candidate's ability to perform a job successfully.
Not Your Typical Employee Suggestion Box
By Tim Augustine
Utilize your employees' creative ideas to improve your firm's operations.
Building an Effective Team
By Will Helmlinger
Using sports teams as analogy can help you determine the star players you need on your business's team.
Compensation Strategies That Work
By Colleen Aylward
The hiring market is heating up, and creating compensation strategies that please top players will help you recruit the best and ensure the ones already on your team stick around for the long haul.
Hire Finishers!
By Tim Augustine
Finishers are people who get things done. Here's how you can find and hire them.
How Much Does Turnover Really Cost?
By Will Helmlinger
Calculate the real -- and hidden -- costs of employee turnover to better understand how it impacts your business's bottom line.
Where Do You Want to be in Five Years?
By Tim Augustine
Career development can be a powerful tool for recruiting new employees and retaining your top performers.
Developing a Professional Portfolio
By Johanna Rothman
You don't have to be an artist to put together a presentation that wows them.
Assessing Talent During the Acquisition Process
By Will Helminger
Change is a given in today's business world. During a merger or acquisition, employees experience this firsthand. Here's how to assuage stress and develop a strong team during the acquisition process.
Building a Solid Orientation Program
By Tim Augustine
Establish an employee orientation program that reinforces your new hire's decision to join the your firm.
Getting Up to Speed
By Johanna Rothman
Your new hire has just come on board. Now it's time to integrate him into your business as quickly as possible.
Polish Your Interview Skills
By Will Helmlinger
The interview process is just the first step to ensuring you hire the right candidate -- and avoid making a terrible hiring mistake.
Why Employees Really Decide To Leave
By Tim Augustine
And what you can do about it.
Rapid Ramp-Ups
By Johanna Rothman
Sometimes there's no time to use the usual hiring process. When you're in a crunch, you need new thinking.
Hiring Choice: Veteran or Rookie?
By Will Helmlinger
Experience counts, but so does the ability to start fresh. Each situation requires careful review.
Make Everyone a Recruiter
By Tim Augustine
Your employees can be valuable referral sources. Here's how to put them to work.
Make the Work Interesting
By Johanna Rothman
Compensation isn't just about money; for some workers, it's about a job that satisfies them in other ways. Discover their interests and you just might save on salary.
Closing the Deal
By Will Helmlinger
Candidates for sales positions may show they can close the interview, but does that mean they can sell?
Put Your Candidate to Work
By Johanna Rothman
You could try riddles and scavenger hunts to assess your candidate. But a more effective approach focuses on the work at hand.
Behind the Smile
By Will Helmlinger
What personality and work behaviors lurk behind the perfect candidate's interview performance? Testing can help you find out.
What is your People Strategy?
By Tim Augustine
A strong team is often the result of a recruitment strategy that goes well beyond HR.
Interviewing New College Grads
By Johanna Rothman
They may not have a traditional work history, but college grads do have experiences. Learn how to glean what they do know.
Pitfalls and Pratfalls
By Will Helmlinger
It's not unusual to find the same hiring blunders made over and over again. Here are the most common mistakes.
Don't Let Emotions Get in the Way
By Don Phin
Avoid becoming too dazzled by the wrong interviewee. Use these steps to ensure a smooth hire.
Solving the Reference Checking Puzzle, Part II
By George Lenard
Know who to ask and what to ask when it comes time to check references.
Get Your Questions Straight
By Will Helmlinger
To find out whether a candidate is up to the job, plan your investigation in advance.
Breathing Life into Your Employee Referral Program
By Johanna Rothman
Your staff holds the key to some of the best hires you'll make. Learn how to extract value from their connections.
Solving the Reference-Checking Puzzle
By George Lenard
Despite employers' tendency to be tight-lipped, a properly conducted reference check can still prove a very useful source of information.
You Can't Judge an Employee by the Cover
By Don Phin
Some candidates come with hidden backgrounds that could be detrimental to your business. Try these methods to ensure you're hiring top quality.
Make Hiring a Process, Not an Event By Will Helmlinger
If recruitment isn't an integral part of your strategic business, you may end up holding the bag.
Cultural Fits and Starts
By Johanna Rothman
Defining the people who fit your projects
When and How to Hire Your Next Employee
By Don Phin
You are running a consulting business, hardware store, advertising firm…you name it. Your business is growing. So much so you are starting to feel a bit overwhelmed, and perhaps so are a few others working with you. The question you are struggling with is if and when you should hire the next employee.
Top Tips for Avoiding Legal Trouble with Employees
By George Lenard
Being aware of the legal aspects of the hiring process is important, but an underlying knowledge of general employment law is a necessary foundation. Here are the key things to keep in mind when working with existing -- and potential -- employees.