Great staff are critical to our success as business owners and managers, but finding and keeping the right people is an ongoing challenge for many businesses.
Unfortunately we can't conjure appropriately trained staff out of the air for our clients and subscribers, but we can provide advice to make the recruitment process as successful as possible.
In this video I outline our 7 'golden rules' for successful hiring.
Topics: Employment and recruitment, infographic, cheat sheet, Template, Video, staff management, staff recruitment, hiring staff, hiring
When hiring new staff there are a number of issues that need to be dealt with by a business owner or senior manager before a recruitment interview process begins. It’s much harder to retrofit this important information into a recruitment process after the fact.
In the following video I list 3 key tasks you should undertake before you begin the interview process.
Topics: infographic, Video, staff management, staff recruitment, hiring staff, interviewing candidates, recruitment, interviewing staff
We often hear business owners and managers say “it’s so hard to find good people – we’ll just do it ourselves”.
But as we’ve discussed in many blogs and eBooks, critical to building business value is having the people resource that allows the business to deliver sustainable returns and earnings.
If you find yourself throwing your hands in the air and saying ‘I’ll do it myself’ because you can’t find someone suitable for a role, or you’ve hired three people in 18 months and they’ve failed to stay or deliver the outcomes you were after, you need to reconsider your recruitment process and what you’re trying to achieve.
Topics: Business Value, Employment and recruitment, eBook, staff recruitment, hiring staff, business management, interviewing candidates
It’s not uncommon for people to present really well in a job interview, be offered the position and then later be found ‘wanting’ when it comes to fulfilling the particular role they’ve been recruited for.
Similarly, there are many people who don't present well in interviews and subsequently miss out on jobs, who actually have a lot of substance in practice and would be valuable team members.
So how do we take the emotion out of the recruitment process and minimise the impact of our own biases and prejudices when dealing with these different personality types?
In this video I'm sharing 4 tips to help remove that bias from the hiring process.
Topics: infographic, Video, staff recruitment, hiring staff, job interview, interviewing candidates, interviewing staff
Great staff are critical to our success as business owners and managers, but finding and keeping the right people is an ongoing challenge for many businesses.
Unfortunately we can't conjure appropriately trained staff out of the air for our clients and subscribers, but we can provide advice to make the recruitment process as successful as possible.
In this video I outline our 7 'golden rules' for successful hiring.
Topics: Employment and recruitment, infographic, cheat sheet, Template, Video, staff management, staff recruitment, hiring staff, hiring
When hiring new staff there are a number of issues that need to be dealt with by a business owner or senior manager before a recruitment interview process begins. It’s much harder to retrofit this important information into a recruitment process after the fact.
In the following video I list 3 key tasks you should undertake before you begin the interview process.
Topics: infographic, Video, staff management, staff recruitment, hiring staff, interviewing candidates
When hiring new staff there are a number of issues that need to be dealt with by a business owner or senior manager before a recruitment interview process begins. It’s much harder to retrofit this important information into a recruitment process after the fact.
We've created the following infographic to help with that pre-interview planning process. It sets out:
Topics: infographic, staff management, staff recruitment, hiring staff, hiring, interviewing candidates
Great staff are critical to our success as business owners and managers but, as our recent survey found, finding and keeping the right people is an ongoing challenge for many businesses.
One-third of our survey respondents indicated the biggest challenge impacting their business in the past six months had been 'finding and retaining good employees'.
Unfortunately we can't conjure appropriately trained staff out of the air for our clients and subscribers, but we can provide advice to make the recruitment process as successful as possible.
The following cheat sheet contains our 7 'golden rules' for successful hiring.
Topics: Employment and recruitment, infographic, cheat sheet, staff management, staff recruitment, hiring staff, hiring
We all bring our own biases and prejudices to the task of hiring new staff and it's important to be aware of them.
It's equally important to minimise the impact of these personal biases when making important decisions that will impact the future of your business.
With this in mind we're sharing an infographic which has been designed to help take some of the emotion out of the hiring process.
Topics: Employment and recruitment, infographic, staff recruitment, hiring staff, managing staff, job interview, interviewing candidates
While Barbara and I were in Boston recently, being shown around the HubSpot headquarters by our guide Rachel, we asked her how long she had been with the company and what she thought of working there.
What a question!
Rachel’s answer led to what I feel was a major takeout from the visit; a gem of an insight and yet so simple and straightforward – like most valuable insights.
Topics: Employment and recruitment, Staff, staff recruitment, hiring staff, Business culture, staff culture
