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Conscious Hiring - NOW Available To Everyone!

For over five years I have been working to perfect the Conscious Hiring process. What started as a 26 step job requisition, candidate vetting and matching process is now an online and available anytime to anyone SaaS product. 

How & Why Conscious Hiring was Invented

It was November of 1999 and my business was suddenly a little slow to say the least. My curious nature brought me to call my customers and question if there was something my staffing company did or failed to do. Well, soon after those phone calls I learned two things, Y2K was a farce and temporarily inflated our business and that back then, Alliance HR Network had something very special that I needed to exploit and expand on. 

What my marketing team and I learned is that the reason companies used our services and continued to come back was our innate ability to sort through who was a fit and who was not. The follow up comments all lead to one conclusion, "bottle the vetting and matching process" and sell it to us for a reasonble price and we will always have business for you. We were told over and over again by seasoned Hiring Managers and VPs of HR, "Whether or not we want to pay an agency fee to find us people we will use the matching process for hiring, deploying, succession planning, employee development and internal promotion". 

So it has been 14 years of placing thousands of candidates at hundreds of companies, and the experience has been career altering. Both Stephanie Marberry and I have learned many lessons a long the way.  Over the years, we have iterated the process mulitple times, through automation, deploying new assessments, the deployment of our own proprietary behavioral interviewing software and ultimately the sale of the KeenHire brand to Jake Knows.  Our 26 steps have been condensed to seven powerful steps and now through stellar automation, it is now two core steps. 

What is Conscious Hiring

Consious Hiring is a hiring process created, vetted and proven by a team of Talent Acquisition, I/O Psychologists and Performance Management professionals.  It brings the TOP five matches together through three dimensional matching and 204 points of compatibility. 

About Us

KeenHire Talent Management

 

We help our customers select, hire, develop, manage and retain
highly qualified people with specialized skills in customer interfacing roles.

 

Webinars

AAs experts in the “people business,” it’s our job to share our knowledge with the world. Our commitment is to positively impact the industry, empower stronger employee-employer relationships, and transform the way businesses interact with their people. We do this on the corporate level, independent professional level, and the candidate level.

We help businesses scale for growth and hire key contributors in customer-facing roles

We give industry professionals the tools and knowledge they need to hire right

We unite highly skilled, highly qualified candidates in jobs they can (will) succeed at

And the best part? We love teaching…

Behavioral Interview Training & Certification

About the Program

This virtual program has been HRCI approved for 16 credits (16 hours)

The KeenHire™ Behavioral Interviewing Certification empowers corporate hiring authorities and managers to delve deep into the process and experience the impact that effective targeted selection and behavioral interviewing has on a companies’ ability to secure and retain top talent.

Join us for this provocative, insightful and fun program that encompasses every aspect of targeted selection and behavioral interviewing.

Let’s face it; in the world right now, your internal talent is one of your only competitive advantages. For your company to sustain its growth and be a leader in industry it is critical that you hire difference markers who have the capacity to achieve the companies’ goals and objectives.

KeenView™ Behavioral Interviewing Certification

KeenHire empowers HR Professionals, corporate hiring authorities and managers to experience the impact that effective behavioral interviewing has on a company’s ability to secure and retain top talent. Through our KeenView Behavioral Interviewing Certification, we train you to implement a conscious interviewing process that saves your company time, money and effort while engaging your high potential candidates from the beginning.

 

Course Objectives for KeenView Behavioral Interviewing Certification

• Develop a fundamental understanding and appreciation for why most bad hiring decisions are made in the first ten minutes of the interview.
• Learn the foundation behind behavioral interviewing, and why diligence is essential when bringing on new people.
• Gain insight to uncover the key performance indicators for each role
• Delve into all facets of what drives peak performance -motivations, ways of being, ways of thinking, and modes of interacting
• Gain prowess in creating behavioral interviewing models and selecting questions that target the right fit.
• Learn what to listen for in the interview to identify the candidate with the right behaviors for your position.
• Receive your certification in behavioral interviewing which includes; benchmarking, behavioral selection and behavioral interpretation

Overview of the Behavioral Certification Process

Step 1: Attend a 2-day live or 4-week virtual 16 hour training program
Step 2: Audit 3 Behavioral Interviews conducted by a certified KeenHire Consultant
Step 3: Conduct 3 Behavioral Interviews audited by a certified KeenHire Consultant
Step 4: Take the Final Certification Exam

Contact KeenHire for more information on our upcoming Behavioral Interviewing Certification Sessions.

Additional Products

Can’t make it to training? Contact our team to purchase the following tools and learn on your own:
PowerPoint slides for Targeted Behavioral & Competency selection
Manual for Targeted Behavioral & Competency selection

 

Hiring Manager Training & Coaching

Jack Welch speaks, writes and leads from the philosophy that companies need to hire people that can clearly execute on their vision or they simply won’t get where they trying to go.

Hiring Managers Aren’t Trained to Hire Right, Yet They’re Held Accountable for Results

Just like any other business skill or core competency, the ability to effectively identify and select the right candidate and to develop them into a true difference maker is learned over time. Your vice presidents, directors, and managers run your business every day. Much more infrequently, they have to make a hiring decision. It’s therefore quite natural that most hiring authorities simply haven’t had the practice needed to excel at targeted selection. So what happens? Gut decisions are made. It’s like buying a car for the paint job, the slick tires and the curb appeal, without a clear understanding of what’s truly under the hood. Then you go to work with your new hire and realize that his personality and talent for communication just can’t make up for his inability to be effective on the job.

KeenHire Helps You Change That

Sales Recruiting

Sales are the life blood of any business.  The profitability and effectiveness of your company depends on hiring the right people for the right job, and in sales this can mean the difference between success and failure.  KeenHire provides a proven sales hiring methodology, integrating high touch and high technology to maximize the return on your human capital investment. Build an effective, quota-achieving sales force by partnering with KeenHire to assure a dynamite sales team for your business.

 

Hit the sales target bulls-eye by hiring only the best sales people.

You know who they are.  They are the salespeople you want to clone and multiply because they are your top producers.  We can do the next best thing.  We benchmark your highest performing sales professionals and create a prototype of your ideal candidate. Then we screen, test, profile, analyze, and select the sales candidates who fit the profile of your top performers.  We weed out all but the best of the best, so you can be confident that you’ve got the right person for the right job.

Your ideal candidate profile is unique to your business. We help customer-centric companies hire salespeople that succeed in industries ranging from BPO, Technology, Healthcare, Professional Services, Staffing, Non-Profit, Government Agencies, and more.  Our commitment is to help you build a sales force that increases the sales pipeline from the beginning, and consistently exceeds expectations, quarter after quarter.  Your success is our success. We tailor our search for your ideal candidate to your business, your company culture, and your vision, bringing you candidates that are fully engaged from the day they’re hired.

It’s in the DNA.

The color or your eyes and your fingerprints are genetic.  They are unique to you.  Top performing sales candidates have a similar blueprint.  We call it “sales DNA”, and our exclusive Conscious Hiring™ process is designed to identify and recruit the candidates who have it.   Aside from sales skills and experience, top-performing sales candidates have values, traits, habits and skills that are natural to them and ensure their success in your company.  We source, identify, and hire the right salespeople with the right ‘DNA’ more quickly, less expensively, and more effectively than anyone else out there. Our systematic approach guarantees you a greater return on your human capital investment than our sales recruiting competition.

We save you money and increase your bottom line at every step.

Customers who choose KeenHire save, on average, $7,500.00 per sales hire. They also get their new recruits oriented quickly by our on-boarding (link) experts, getting results faster by getting their people up and running efficiently.  Once your new sales hires are up to speed and fully aligned with your company’s vision and values, Keenhire can help you keep your people engaged and productive for the long term.

In a continually evolving employment marketplace, Keenhire can help you optimize your workforce for long term success.  Our comprehensive set of assessment tools and strategies gives us the edge for improving the bottom line for every aspect of your business.

Keen Recruiters thoroughly understand the importance of matching a candidate’s personality, values and work style to your corporate culture.  This is crucial to effective retention and succession planning.  At the conclusion of each project, a 360-degree review of the recruiter’s performance is made by your hiring team, to assess the ongoing effectiveness of our strategy. We are committed to your success, and the project is not complete until we know we’ve produced the results.

To get started on your next sales hiring project, call 888-533-6447.

 

Keen Coaching

Part of becoming recruitment and hiring experts is sharing our wealth of knowledge with hiring authorities in growing organizations. Our experts are available for coaching, mentoring, and consulting in all aspects of our expertise. Whether you need your sales team to operate more effectively or you’re looking to implement Conscious Hiring™ into your existing hiring practices, we can help.

Executive Search

Outstanding talent is what your business needs to move forward.

 

KeenHire delivers.

Talent, skill and education alone will not make your company great. Our firm will find you the extraordinary leaders who are fully aligned with the vision you have for your business.  Our Retained Search process ensures that we fully understand what drives your company, using our own signature organizational assessments to understand your company’s direction, competitive advantages, values, and unique challenges.  The result is a dynamic, effective executive search process that brings you exactly the right leadership for your business.

 

Conscious Hiring™ Training

Let’s face it.  Your internal talent is probably your ONLY competitive advantage. For your company to grow and be an industry leader, it’s critical that you hire difference makers who have the capacity and ability to achieve your company’s goals and objectives.

Your hiring decisions make or break your business. What you don’t know will cost you: training time, management and workforce productivity losses, company morale and employee productivity, new sales, customers and more.  Employment turnover cost the US economy a trillion dollars last year. What is it costing your company? The estimated costs of a poor hire run from 3-7 times a person’s salary.

With stiff competition, costs rising and margins shrinking, no company can afford the multiple costs of poor quality hires. What’s even more compelling is that recent studies are linking management burnout and employee morale issues directly to the number of poor performers on the payroll.  In this provocative program, you learn a powerful methodology to attract and select A players, develop your B players and leverage your company’s hiring power by continuously hiring the best, building and scaling your high performance teams.