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Listening to Every Word
Listening to Every Word Listening is important. We all know that. But, many of us don’t demonstrate that we know listening is important. We are busy preparing a response rather than listening to every word spoken and to watching how the speaker is acting while he or she is talking. We may miss the opportunity…
Read MoreSearching For Candidates
Searching for Candidates We are in the business of finding people for other people who need particular skills and backgrounds for their own enterprises. We are able to find good people and one of the reasons for that is found in the following quotation attributed to Bill Cosby: “There’s no labor a man can…
Read MoreThe Midas Touch
The Midas Touch The ‘reverse Midas touch’ seems to be present on a regular basis in many aspects of life. What we touch does not always turn into gold. Sometimes it turns into ‘stuff’ we’d rather not have anything to do with but are often confronted with having no choice in the matter. There…
Read MoreFinding a Job is like Running a Marathon
Finding a job is like Running a Marathon! I received a call last week from a great candidate, Jim, he had just completed an interview. The candidate said it went great and he expected a job offer. Sounds great I thought. So, I called the client and asked how it went? The client said great…
Read MoreIt’s Tricky
It’s Tricky This may sound like ‘preaching to the choir’ but…the smaller your company and its staff, or the bigger and more critical the job, or a combination of those things, the greater the need for a disciplined and thoughtful process leading to the ultimate decision. The interviewing process and reference checking, and hiring processes…
Read MoreWhat’s Your Gut Feeling
What’s Your Gut Feeling Those of us in the staffing industry have heard many times about the use of quantifiable metrics in the process of finding suitable candidates for positions we’ve been retained to fill. That is important, certainly, since those metrics tell us about the measurable results a prospective candidate brings with him…
Read MoreLearning from our mistakes
Learning From Our Mistakes “I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.” Omar Bradley, General, U.S. Army This quotation caught my attention. I began to think about it and about how I had made more than a few mistakes along the pathway to where I am today. That…
Read MoreOptimistic Horizon
Optimistic Horizon Those of you in the metropolitan Milwaukee area will probably recognize the name BizTimes Milwaukee. This publication has been in this marketplace for many years. Among the stories it does is one that uses the results of its Economic Dashboard Survey conducted each year. The survey for 2014 was just published in the…
Read MoreAre you Prepared?
Are you prepared? The Tennessean, a Nashville newspaper, recently published an article that identified a Nashville company, Emma, which offers sabbaticals to employees. Sabbaticals are more thought of in an educational or religious setting but this is an interesting concept which might just be the key to standing out in the crowd of employers seeking…
Read MoreTry Before You Hire
Try Before You Hire Bloomberg has reported a statistic that helps us to better understand the labor market. They report that there are now some 2.8 unemployed people for every job that is available in the United States. For politicians seeking votes, this is a large prospective pool from which to attempt to draw those…
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