Avoiding Hiring Mistakes- and Recovering from Them
Tuesday, 06. 14. 2011 – Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention, Recruiting
I’ve seen a recent flurry of articles about strategies to avoid bad hires, perhaps in response to those oft-cited disengaged employees deciding that the economy has recovered enough that they can take a chance on a new position. In this blog post at Fistful of Talent from Steve Boese, Jonathan Kaplan, founder and [...]
If Charlie Sheen can do it, you can too…
Wednesday, 04. 13. 2011 – Category: All Blog Posts, Recruiting
Today’s guest blog post is submitted by our board member, John Hollon, Vice President for Editorial of TLNT.com. In a dramatic recent example of candidate sourcing via social media channels, Charlie Sheen sent out a tweet to get a social media intern and within 24 hours had 90,000 applications. On a more serious note, per [...]
Finding and Keeping the “Keepers” – Recruiting Front Line Employees
Sunday, 06. 22. 2008 – Category: All Blog Posts, Customer Satisfaction, Employee Retention, Podcast, Recruiting
The latest chapter of the book we’re writing on achieving your optimal front line retention strategy is written by our board member, Mel Kleiman. The focus of this chapter is the key role that recruiting practices play in ensuring that the right talent is available, willing and able to serve on your organization’s front line.
For [...]
Doing the Talent Acquistion Limbo
Thursday, 01. 31. 2008 – Category: All Blog Posts, Labor Market, Recruiting
In a new article from our board member, Steven Hunt, he talks about the challenges of keeping your selection standards high when the labor market is tight. He discusses the downside of lowering the bar to increase your applicant pools – increased turnover, decreased morale, lower productivity – and suggests a number of strategies to [...]
Hiring by Design – Finding Job Candidates with the Right Fit
Wednesday, 12. 19. 2007 – Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention, Recruiting
Why the quilt picture? I’m a quilter. While I didn’t make this quilt, it’s by one of my favorite textile artists, Kaffee Fasset. He makes beautiful quilts, knits, pottery and other wildly colored beautiful objects. Like the quilt shown here, they may look somewhat ad hoc. They are all, however, carefully designed in order to [...]
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