Why is Onboarding So Important for Employee Retention?

Why is onboarding so important for employee retention? Think for a moment about your last great hire. How long did it take to find them? How expensive was it? Did you worry if they would be a good fit culturally? How long did it take until they were fully integrated into the company and productive? […]

Great Onboarding: Eliminate the Cooling Off Period

Great Onboarding: Eliminate the Cooling Off Period   There used to be this silence between an offer letter and an employee’s first day. Where new hires would receive counteroffers from their current employer, phone calls from competing companies, and questions from their loved ones about making a wrong career move. Oh, wait, that silence still […]

Hey, HR: Hire Yourself & Tell Me How It Goes

This is where it gets fun. Pulling back the curtain. I’ve worked in Recruiting for 15 years, but I’ve only been a Candidate a handful of times. So when I hit the market, don’t think for a second I wasn’t taking copious notes on how companies (who are in the business of doing the following, […]

How to Rock the Hiring Process

Let’s pretend that I’m a candidate looking for a job at Acme Corp. In an ideal world, I’d find a job post online and apply. They’d carefully review my resume, then give me a call to set up a meeting and go over what I can expect in the interview. I’d get up early, get […]

How to Super-Charge Your Time-to-Hire

Let’s optimize your time-to-hire If you want to be a contender in today’s hyper-competitive and skills-focused job market, then it’s time to get smart and take a look at how you optimize time-to-hire. Time-to-hire measures the time between first contact (either sourcing or application) and an accepted job offer. The faster you are at getting […]