Executive Corner / Leadership
Executive Corner – What Can Small Businesses do to Defeat ‘The Great Resignation’?
Leader’s worlds are being flipped upside down in all size companies. The Great Resignation is a bigger challenge to business than any of the Covid variants. Yet not many leaders are paying attention. Gallup data shows that 48% of the current workforce wants to change jobs within the next year. Covid is only a symptom of this issue. No community is being impacted greater than the small business…
Read MoreExodus of the Boomers
BABY BOOMERS RETIRING AT RECORD RATES Written by Michael Clegg, Managing Partner We have documented the “Crisis for Talent” several times. Employers seem to be naïve on how tight the labor market has become. The latest Jobs Reports from 2019 and again in January 2020 show that this “Crisis” is accelerating. There are a record…
Read MoreEmployee Tenure: Why Do They Leave? And What Can You Do?
When reviewing candidate resumes, hiring companies often key in on the length of time spent at previous companies and draw negative conclusions if the tenure trends to the run on the short side. So much so, they will absolutely pass on interviewing if they feel the candidate is a “job hopper.” This practice makes sense…
Read MoreOnboarding is a Process NOT an Event
Most companies are making key hires multiple times annually. With historically low unemployment rates, the demand for retention is at a record high. A successful onboarding practice can get the process of retention started. How many companies are paying attention to their onboarding practices? What is onboarding? Most employers treat onboarding as an event versus the reality of it being a process. In fact, onboarding should be…
Read MoreEffort Takes Zero Talent
Most of us have heard the statement before “effort take zero talent”. If you haven’t, you will today. I experience this in my own personal life and certainly as a business professional. There are different schools of thought on how to gain more effort out of the people in your life. As a Leader, Coach and Business Owner, I…
Read MoreStop Overlooking (The Most) Highly Qualified Job Candidates!
I’m talking about the, “more experienced, more seasoned, more mature.” Yes, the over 50 crowd! Age discrimination is not a new issue and it impacts nearly every aspect of life in the United States unfortunately, but in the current job market, it is mind boggling why companies are still refusing to give older Americans a…
Read MoreCompanies Identify Top Hiring Challenges
Continuing the conversation around the “Crisis for Talent,” a recent staffing industry survey of nearly 3,000 senior hiring managers identified the top 5 hiring challenges that companies are currently facing in the US (and very likely abroad). Companies continue to add more new jobs yet find themselves struggling to fill the roles. The well-established candidate-driven…
Read MoreDoes your culture breed disengagement?
How many times have you sat in an interview and the prospective employer said, “You know, our culture really sucks here?” My assumption, and not a very bold one, is that has never happened. Why is that? As an employer, how many times have you been interviewing a prospective employee and they have said “I…
Read MoreMajor Reason Companies Lose Good Job Candidates: Taking too Long!
This fact cannot be stressed enough; when the interview and hiring process drags on and on, top talent will give up and move on to other opportunities. A candidate-driven market naturally places candidates in the driver’s seat, thus shifting power away from the hiring company. This is especially true when it comes to those hard…
Read MoreUnderstanding & Addressing Candidate Motivation
Actively searching for a new job, or considering an out of the blue opportunity, can be a very stressful (exciting, emotional) time in one’s life. The factors that surround deciding whether to accept a new position, or even consider looking for one, vary profoundly based on a candidates’ circumstances and motivation. To be a successful…
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