Category: HR & Hiring
Are Recruiting Operations Essential to Business Growth?
Recruitment is the process of attracting and hiring the right person for a job vacancy. It involves determining the requirements of a position, attracting applicants, screening and selecting possible employees, and hiring and integrating new personnel. What does employee recruitment have to do with business growth? Employees are a...
read more »Better Hiring Decisions! The Power of Executive Search
This article was originally published by www.stevefinkel.com Executives depend on the quality of their people to achieve their corporate and personal career goals. It is an old adage – and a true one – that the best jockey cannot win races if he only rides slow horses. A better...
read more »Dealing with Funnel Challenges when Recruiting
A recruitment funnel is made of potential hires, both active job seekers and passive candidates. Carefully managing your recruitment funnel ensures the best and brightest candidates make it to the hiring stage. How do you ensure your funnel is filled with top prospects? Should you cast a wide net...
read more »The Onboarding Process
Onboarding, also known as organizational socialization, is the process of integrating a new employee with a company and its culture. The procedure may take from 8 to 12 months and involves helping a new hire gain the tools, information, knowledge, skills and behaviors needed to become an effective organizational...
read more »Structured Hiring Tips
Structured hiring produces a consistent method of evaluating candidates, encourages decisions based on evidence/data, minimizes interviewer bias and reduces the time and cost of hiring. This technique creates a positive experience for all involved; candidates feel their time and effort is respected, recruiters are able to predict when the...
read more »Common Elements of Successful Company Culture
Company culture is the personality of an organization. It’s comprised of the physical environment, values, expectations, goals, behaviours, attitudes and traditions of a company. Though each organization’s culture is unique, there are common elements present in all successful company cultures. A clear mission statement is a foundational element of...
read more »Generational Hiring: the benefits of age diversity in hiring practices
Discussion in boardrooms often focuses on diversity through gender and ethnicity. While this is important, age diversity is equally relevant. For the first time in history, our workforce is comprised of 5 generations of employees; the Silent Generation (ages 74 to 94), Baby Boomers (ages 55 to 73), Generation...
read more »What Is Corporate Social Responsibility?
Your business may be focused mostly on maximizing revenue and securing incremental growth, but no company exists in a vacuum. The choices you make as an entrepreneur affect and are influenced by countless social factors. This is what corporate social responsibility is all about. CSR in a Nutshell...
read more »Why Is Candidate Loyalty So Meaningful?
Forging and nurturing great relationships with job candidates is increasingly important to the process of recruiting them. These relationships are defined significantly by the candidate’s loyalty to your business as an employer. Let’s examine why this is such an essential concept. Candidate Loyalty in a Nutshell What...
read more »Job References: A Few Dos and Don’ts
When you apply for a job, you must demonstrate that you’re not only qualified, but that you have a history of excellent work and strong professional relationships. Getting your references right can make or break your chances, so it might be a good idea to consider a few dos...
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