Posts Tagged ‘Hiring’
Personality Matters: 3 Traits for Call Center Agents
Call centers have consistently high turnover rates. Turnover rates as high as 20 percent are considered “low,” and some call centers even have the distinction of achieving 100 percent turnover. It’s not hard to see why: The work is stressful (and often frustrating), the pay is low, and the career path isn’t always clear. For that reason,…
Read MoreThe Peter Principle Can Paralyze Your Startup Team
The good news is that recent big company financial woes and layoffs have generated a flood of candidates with real experience seeking positions at startups. The bad news is that many of these frustrated employees may have already reached their level of incompetence (The Peter Principle). They are not the ones you need in the…
Read MoreDon’t Discriminate Against Convicted Felons
Most organizations, both for profit and non-profit, ask the following question on their employment applications: Have you ever plead guilty, or no contest or adjudication withheld?
Read More 3 Key Attributes of Every Great Hire
The success of any company or organization depends almost entirely on its most important resource: its workforce. It is the people who make up an organization who ultimately decide which revenue streams to pursue.
Read More Looking at Global Recruiting Trends
If you’re a startup or small business looking to recruit from the global talent pool in order to grow your business, take a look at this Global Recruiting Trends infographic featuring information from a recent study undertaken by LinkedIn.
Read More Millennials: Let’s Get It All on the Table
To the millennials I say: prove you’re a hard worker and strive for success. To everyone else: Let them.
Read More 4 Small Business Secrets to Vetting Your Candidates
Properly vetting potential job candidates is critical to protecting your business. Below explains four affordable ways how small businesses can properly screen potential job candidates.
Read More How to Hire a Top-Notch Team When You Can’t Compete on Salary
I often get asked how I managed to get so many impressive people on my team. By every law of logic, a company as small, new and budget-constrained as mine should not have as many rock stars on our team and advisory board as we do.
Read More Using Social Media to Recruit
Social media has become an integral part of business; not only is it a place to advertise and from which you can reach and interact with customers, but it is also increasingly a recruitment tool.
Read More 4 Tips for Attracting Top Talent
Successful companies populate their teams with A-players. To do otherwise is a disservice to the company and its stakeholders. Unfortunately, most A-players aren’t actively seeking new employment.
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