6 Questions CEOs Need To Be Asking HR To Win The Talent War!
The iconic business book by Jim Collins, ‘From Good to Great', provides the perfect analogy for today's talent shortage and what smart CEOs need to be doing to attract top talent ahead of the competition.
How To Identify Executives Who Can Achieve Start-Up Success
Many executives from big companies succeed in emerging companies. Start-ups that won't consider hiring them are missing out on a large and valuable pool of talent.
Finding Superstars Who Stay
It's easier to retain employees who feel their talents are aligned with their work. Companies can do more to foster this process. People who are hired as a good fit from the beginning are more likely to stay in the long run.
Differentiating Recruitment Firms
To assist people in the selection of a recruitment provider, an eight point checklist is provided below.
Managing The Early Days - Setting Expectations
A new recruit's first weeks are often stressful - for the recruit and for the manager. Managing the expectations of both parties is key to making a new work relationship successful. And this should start right back at the planning stage.
Induction - First Impressions Really Count
You may already be losing your best potential employees before you meet them.
Diversity Recruiting
Diversity is one of the most difficult, and sometimes controversial, aspects of recruiting. Competition is fierce, and the number of quality minority candidates can be low.
Ask The Right Questions To Identify The Right Recruits
There are plenty of tips for job seekers on how to behave in an interview, but what's the secret to successfully conducting one?
Selecting The Right Recruitment Agency
The following checklist may help you select the agency that will best meet your needs.
Treat Recruitment Like Marketing
Why is it that retailers get all excited and place all their efforts and resources in attracting a new client, yet penny pinch in trying to obtain a new employee?
Interview Questions Every Manager MUST Ask!
Employee engagement begins with the recruitment process. If we get this element of the engagement journey right, then engaging employees is easy!
The First Key Element Of Employee Engagement - Recruitment
Behind every exceptionally successful organisation is employee engagement. An organisation can only be a competitive market leader and a driving force in its industry, if it has a team of people who are truly engaged.
Selecting The High Performer
Have you ever selected the wrong person for a job? Your candidate interviewed well, their profile was good, but after a few weeks their performance did not live up to their promise. If this has happened to you, you are not alone!
Job Description - An Example
This job description format encourages a focus on end results and clear measures, or key performance indicators (KPIs), to show when they have been achieved.
Writing And Using Job Descriptions
When the subject of recruitment, performance management, training or succession planning comes up, managers are usually forced to concede that a practical statement of what someone has to achieve would be useful.
Innovative Tactics For Onboarding Top Talent
Over the years, organisations have adopted some tried-and-true approaches for onboarding senior level executives. In addition to these approaches, there are other, more innovative - even surprising - tactics that can drive even greater results for both the individual and organisation.
Retention Starts On Day One: Effective On-boarding Programs
Put yourself in your brand new employee's shoes. How welcomed do they feel on their first day on the job? On their third day? What about the third month on the job?
Hiring To Get Results
What any manager really needs is personnel that can get RESULTS.
Mapping Actual Results
When interviewing, it is very important to take actual results into consideration. That a person has produced in the past, and is able to prove it, is of great importance.
Locating And Keeping The Best People
In the rave to recruit and retain good staff, many business owners often see themselves outgunned by larger enterprises. But there are ways of levelling the playing field.
Don’t Recruit The Best People - Attract Them
Smart leaders don’t recruit the best people, they attract them. Why do they do it? They do it because it makes their lives easier, and their companies more successful.
Job Descriptions
Why performance-based job descriptions attract and retain the best staff.
The Behavioural Approach To Interviewing
Once they know how personalities work, individuals and organisations find it easier to effect change. We will cover some of the techniques and skills required to conduct an interview.
Systematic Preparation Vital For Interviewers
The right questions and active listening ensure the process goes well.
Refresh Your Recruiting - Innovative Ways To Succeed In Sourcing
Employers are typically highly reliant on employee referral networks for recruiting fresh talent. While highly popular - and highly effective - employee referral programs can also get stale after a few years. What follows are some ideas, gathered from our recruiting experts, for getting better results.
The Positive Power Of The Magnetic Employer
Here’s a question you may not have been asked before. Is your business an Employee Magnet?
Employers: It's Time To Get On The Brandwagon!
Over the last few years Australian industry and commerce have started to embrace Employer Branding as a key tool in the development of their ‘Employer of Choice’ positioning and the subsequent recruitment and retention of the best possible talent.
Recruitment: How To Hire The Right Person For The Job
To ensure you hire good employees, and avoid potential termination problems, you need to follow a well thought out, systematic and documented process.
The Selection Process: What You Need To Consider For A Better Bet
We have compiled some pointers below on how companies can best fine-tune and integrate their selection practices from a holistic perspective. None of these practices, on their own, will ensure a perfect match every time but, taken together and applied in a systemic fashion, they can raise the odds of hiring a good fit.
The Right Person In The Right Job
How can you appoint the 'right-person-to-the-right-job', every time?
Getting The Right People - People Who Fit
The article "Are People Your Most Important Asset? - Not Necessarily!" discussed "getting the right people on the bus" before deciding where to drive it. A key factor in getting the right people is understanding what competencies we are looking for and how to find out if someone has these.
Effective Induction - More Than Showing Them The Lunch Room
Induction or orientation to the work place typically involves showing the new employee around, telling them about the organisation and showing them where they will be working - if it happens at all.
Intelligent, Adaptable People + Cultural Fit = Sky's The Limit!
Choosing the right employee for your organisation can be very difficult.
Setting 'Expectations Of Success' For That New Employee
While "throwing them in the deep end" might sound challenging for a new employee, it can be a careless way to treat your new investment. We recently heard of a new employee calling his wife at lunchtime on his first day in the new job to say he was coming home. The treatment, or lack of it, he received told him he had made the wrong choice.
Values Make A Difference In Securing The Best Fit CEO
New tool helps to avoid company culture mismatch. While your potential new CEO’s competencies and experience look good on paper, have you asked yourself whether they really represent the best ‘fit’ with your company’s culture?
How To Minimise Recruitment Mistakes
It does not always prove easy to attract, identify and select the most qualified candidate for a specific job?
Do They Know What You Want? - Job Descriptions And How To Make Them Work
"They know what I want. We don't need to write it down." is often the response when the issue of the dreaded job description comes up. Most of the time, when asked, the poor employee is left guessing as to what the boss wants.
Staff Psychological Assessment Profiling
Psychological assessment profiling is being used more and more as a tool for recruiting and selecting appropriate people for major project management or career development.
Headhunting - Making It Work For You?
Executive search found its beginnings in post World War II America. What started as a sector dominated by older men drawing upon their pre-war contacts, has grown to become a lucrative global industry.
Recruitment - Getting It Right More Often
The Accounts Clerk had resigned and the Administration Manager leapt into action and placed an advertisement in the local paper for a replacement. Two weeks of frenzied résumé reading and interviews followed and a suitable replacement was found.
How To Find The Round Pegs - Finding The People That Fit
Terminating a senior manager can be an expensive and embarrassing process.
Recruitment
The aim is to recruit the best person for each job. Removing discrimination and harassment from the recruitment process helps your organisation do this.
Recruitment Checklist
Use this handy checklist when next recruiting staff.
Induction
What questions may be asked by a new employee, what to do prior to commencement of a new employee...
Interview Procedure
A quick guide for your next recruitment interview.
Job Description And Person Specification Templates
Use these template to prepare job descriptions and person specifications for your organisation.
Hiring Strategically - What To Look For
Two important employee characteristics to look for in prospective candidates are values and behaviours. These two characteristics are often the most difficult to discern.
Effective Recruitment and Selection Practices
Every organisation employs exactly the people it deserves, but not necessarily the people it wants. The people organisations employ is the result of the recruitment and selection practices it uses.