If you’re sending candidates to interviews and they’re not getting hired, it may be that your hiring manager could use help with their interview skills and … Read more
Good Candidate Prep Is More Than Interview Tips
For most practitioners in our industry, the purpose of preparing a candidate for a meeting with a client is to improve their interviewing skills, provide … Read more
5 Ways to Keep Counteroffers at Bay
Dear Barbara: I’ve recently lost four placements because my candidates accepted counteroffers. Three of them accepted a counteroffer more than eight weeks … Read more
Employee Payback Agreements: Legal, But Unwise
Having a problem collecting? Wondering about your non-compete agreements? Should you check references and do background checks? Jeffrey Allen can help … Read more
The 7 Mistakes Recruiters Make With Candidates
Dear Barbara: Over the past two quarters, I feel like I’ve lost my ability to match my candidates to orders. They tell me one thing and then during … Read more
Long Hiring Delays Are Costing Companies Candidates, While Pushing Time to Fill to Record Highs
After all the drumbeating about speeding up the hiring process or risking losing the best talent, the advice is being ignored and companies are indeed … Read more
Interview Help For Your Candidates
In 2012 Millennial Branding conducted a survey of 225 employers asking them to identify the top five skills they were seeking in a candidate for … Read more
Be A Beacon of Light Instead of Another Black Hole
As the national employment numbers continue to improve, job seekers across the country unfortunately still express frustration over the lack of … Read more
Three Reasons You Convert So Few Candidates Into Clients
We all see a future client in every candidate we interview, right? We were taught so because when we were new in the job, our bosses gave us ratios of “VIP … Read more
Will Your Candidate Accept the Offer? This Checklist Will Help You Know
Note: In this third and final part of a series on managing search risk, Joe Ankus presents a checklist of the questions to answer before an offer is made. … Read more