8 reasons why it’s easy to find candidates but difficult to hire!
How much longer can you keep your head buried in the sand, pretending there isn’t a problem where there really is one? We call it the ostrich effect from the…
How you hire a top-performing HR Manager
If thousands of company leaders, from all over the world and different industries, agree on most-wanted HR Manager personality profile, why would you not do the same? Would it be…
What fee do you pay recruitment firms?
Your third-party recruitment agency and executive search firm calculate their service fee as a percentage of the successful candidate’s first year’s annual income. The percentage will typically vary from, and…
5 tips to fight counter-offers
There is nothing as frustrating as getting a call from the candidate, who recently signed your employment contract, that he has accepted a counter-offer to stay with his current employer.…
LOL! Naive? Hiring companies think recruiters work harder when competing on a job search
Totally not true. Recruitment firms do not work harder if competing with another recruitment company. On the contrary. Let me explain. Most recruitment agencies compete on price and not on…
Are you paying too high fees to recruiters – or too little?
Recruiters are pulling wool over your eyes; deceiving and misleading you to hide what is really going on behind the scenes. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry can set up a…
Recruitment fraud is a serious problem for anyone hiring staff
Have you ever been cheated, exploited, manipulated and jerked around by a candidate or applicant who wanted a job in your organization? You may have, but perhaps you don’t know?…
Why should someone come work for you?
If you cannot give at least 10 great reasons, why someone should come and work for you, then you could be in trouble. I asked a client that question recently…
40% of executive searches fail; clients to blame for most of them
Are you surprised? The research from ESIX says that 40% of executive searches fail and that the clients (hiring companies) are to blame for 70% of these failures. What is…
Are you fed up, as a candidate, with slow recruitment process?
Topping the list of reasons why you and other candidates exit a recruitment process is that your time was disrespected by the hiring company. Next, that the recruiting process taking…