How to Understand and Manage a Multi-Generational Workforce
A multi-generational workforce is reality. Whether it becomes a liability or an asset for your company depends largely on your management capabilities. Why Your Workers Leave: Odds Are…It’s Their Manager According to a Gallup survey of one million...
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How to Attract “Right Fit” Candidates and Hire Your Match
Are you struggling to attract right fit candidates? If so, you aren’t alone. After all, hiring for “fit” leads to positive outcomes that include greater employee commitment, longevity with the organization, superior job performance, productivity and job satisfaction. Those outcomes have...
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Retain Company Leaders by Using Stay Interviews
Conduct regular stay interviews with every employee you can’t afford to lose in 2016. As you fine tune your company’s strategic plan for the coming year, consider that your key leaders may not be there to implement it. According...
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2016 Workforce Trends: The Fight to Attract & Retain Workers
Editor’s note: This was originally published as a 2013 workforce trends post and has been completely reworked for accuracy and relevance in 2016. What trends should employers expect to encounter in their talent acquisition efforts for 2016? We studied...
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How Behavioral Interviewing Can Save Your Business
Are you still winging it in interviews, asking questions you think are interesting or clever, making hiring decisions based on your gut instinct? You can do better. Much, much better, as it turns out. Because companies have been...
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Should You Hire the Right Candidate Even If You Don’t Need Them Yet?
I recently read an interesting article in Inc. Magazine that explored tactics for employers in smaller, less appealing towns to attract top-grade talent. One of the suggestions I found particularly interesting was to “hire, especially when you don’t...
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When To Outsource Hiring and When To Do It In-House
A question has come up for us recently, as we prepare for our Choosing Winners System Training that will take place here in Columbus this Friday. Specifically, why are we teaching businesses how to do their own hiring, in-house?...
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6 Things You Can Do Right Now to Improve Your Hiring Process
New research recently published by Brandon Hall Group found a whopping “95% of organizations admit to hiring ‘bad fits’ each year.” These mis-hires drain resources from your organization. Fortunately, hiring ‘bad fit’ employees is avoidable. Here are six...
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Don’t Make These 7 Hiring Mistakes
There are a lot of ways to go wrong in hiring. Studies done by the University of Chicago have shown hiring success rates to hover around 50-55% – the equivalent of flipping a coin. Your company’s human capital should...
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3 Reasons You Need to Do Team Interviews
If you’re like me, when you think about the perfect leader, you might imagine the famous painting of George Washington commanding that little boat on the Delaware River. He was launching a surprise attack on the Hessians during Christmas...
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