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We know that hiring new team members is a critical part of growing your business and many of the discussions I have with with start ups and businesses that are growing rapidly focus on how to recruit and still stay true to the original vision. Here Chuck Cohn shares 4 tactics he has used to[…]
When I talk to business owners one of the topics that comes up often is the importance of finding and keeping talented people. People that can bring new skills, help facilitate and drive change and ultimately really want to be part of their growth and success. What surprises me is the answer to my next[…]
Michael Calvin wrote a book called The Nowhere Men that looked at how David Moyes recruited players at Everton. What struck me about this was the amount of planning and energy that Moyes puts into recruiting. Here is a look at what Calvin discovered. Moyes uses four whiteboards to map out his recruiting strategy and[…]
In the late 19th century Cobb & Co was making stagecoaches and transporting and connecting people across Australia. They were growing and when it came time to recruit it is fair to assume they were looking for people that knew how to build stagecoaches and could show that they had experience in woodwork and building[…]
Here is a great article Recruiting 5 tips from Quentin Tarantino and Paul T Anderson from Stephen Glasskeys where he looks at how a business finds, recruits, and hires employees that are good at what they do by looking at the way Quentin Tarantino and Paul T Anderson find and retain exceptional talent. 1. Connect[…]
I would like to share an article by Meghan M Biro 5 ways to reinvent your recruiting strategy where Meghan explains that it takes a long time to build a robust workplace culture and almost no time to damage it beyond repair. Thus it’s critically important to have senior managers brainstorm scenarios that pose a[…]
Greg Savage in his article Great recruiters always ask these two questions, always states that a job does not start with finding good candidates for a particular job. It starts with the quality with which you take the job brief in the first place. It does not matter if you take the brief face to[…]
Here is a great article from Dan Siroker The 3 unconventional questions to ask every candidate where he shares the 3 questions he asks all candidates; On a scale of 1-10 how lucky are you? 2. What’s an opinion you hold that most people disagree with? If you had 10 year to live what would[…]