KeenHire Blog by Margaret Graziano

Employee Retention is Everything

You have found a star employee. They fit the profile of the job perfectly, the resume is superb, in action on the job they are unstoppable and their experience means that you have little to do in terms of nurturing them into their new role.

The issue is... how do you keep hold of them? How do you perfect employee retention in a competitive world where everyone is looking to hire the best and steal the best of your company from under your feet?

The answer is that you contact the employee retention specialists at KeenHire so that they can do a full assessment of your employee retention techniques and your employee assessment / performance management schemes and set you off on the road to employee retention success as soon as possible.

What is the main priority of the employee retention experts at KeenHire?
At KeenHire, we help a variety of different companies find the best employees for their businesses. We show the managers of those companies how to become employers who really “choose” their employees, instead of being one of the managers who employs without care in order to fill gaping holes in the company as soon as possible.

Employee Motivation: How to Nurture it...

Even if you have a team of brilliant, devoted and effective employees who love to work and live for every second of it, you still need to invest time and knowledge in the development of employee motivation to ensure that your workforce remains happy and focused.

The management and leadership experts at KeenHire see it as a high priority to develop ways in which to help you nurture your employee motivation. For this reason, we spend a great deal of our time looking for different kinds of employee management tools for you to use with your team.

Contact the management and leadership experts at KeenHire at any time to find out about the hottest employee motivation tools are the market. Employee motivation tools that we find sometimes come in the form of employee evaluation systems, employee reward ideas or even webinars and conferences which recognized specialists are scheduled to give on the subject of employee motivation throughout the year.

All employees need to receive help in terms of motivation. At KeenHire, we help you to see that huge variety of ways in which this motivation can be supplied on a regular basis to ensure that you develop a strong work force for your business full of employees in whom you can trust to get the job done well.

Examples of employee motivation ideas
One of the most important things to bear in mind is that every single employee from your company is liable to find motivation for their work in different ways and therefore you need to supply employee motivation in different ways too.

3rd Party Recruiting- You Don’t Want to Do The Heavy Lifting, Let Us Do it For You!

Some say the great thing about being a third-party recruiter is that there are no firm rules on how to recruit. Well, this is just not true. If there wasn’t a right and wrong way to recruit it would simply fall apart. Every client differs, every position differs, and every candidate differs: this is a fact, however, the way that you recruit your candidates and make your clients happy is all the same.

Third party recruiters provide a service to their customers, not a function to their employers. If a recruiter can ensure successful hiring process that results in less waste and an increased return on investment, they must have a system set in place. A proven process that allows any company to close-the-door on expensive mis-hires and unwanted employee turnover is the engine that drives 3^rd party recruiting.

A process must ensure one thing; the right person in the right role, for them and for the company. This is the only way to ensure employee retention. While sales professionals only have to deal with customers’ emotions, recruiters have to deal with both customer and candidate emotions. The candidate’s motivational drivers, methods of interacting, ways of acting and reacting, thinking strategies, and leadership behaviors are all brought into context by the recruiter. It’s not just the traits of someone that predict their performance; it’s how traits interact with each other that calculates success.

Along with each client, each job must be addressed differently while apply a solid hiring process. Great companies spend time isolating what great performance is in the role they are searching to fill. Invest more time in defining what the candidate needs to do to achieve great performance, and even more time proactively assessing and defining the right behaviors, values, and motivators of that the right candidate should have.

No matter what the job is, if a recruiter has a process that involves assessing who the employee needs to be to do the job, they will come out successful. A strong hiring process includes selecting behaviors, talents, traits, willingness, “want,” power, skills, experience, and even education- the whole nine yards!

Check out KeenHire’s conscious hiring process for an example of great third party recruiting with a process in place for success!

By: Emily Eastman

The Retention Issue: How To Assess Candidates, Perfect Selection and Retain Top Talent

According To Noah Webster, retention is the act or power of keeping or retaining, but Corporately, retention is the power to keep employees actively engaged and committed to being an integral part of the organization. So what is retention like in this day in age? Are employers on the same page as their employees when it comes to effective performance and talent management?

According to the SHRM Workplace Forecast of 2011, our workplace trends are directly related to talent acquisition, selection & retention. All of these being consecutive to one another and going hand in hand with creating a successful business.

A recent survey on employee performance and retention conducted by Express Employment Professionals, one of the nation's largest privately held staffing companies, found that employers are more disconnected than ever from their workforce. Express' survey revealed that 77 percent of leaders say retention was not a problem or only a slight problem in 2011, while 91 percent of employees said they are willing to switch jobs. These extreme figures should be waking up the employers of our nation, and creating a call to action that something’s not right.

With Employee turn over in the US at 16.4 percent what is there to do? How do you shift your talent management, selection and retention in a way that that increases your profit, your employee satisfaction and turnover?

First of all strong leadership is imperative right now in order to enhance your management operating style, implementing accountability systems, while building and developing high-performance teams.

Talent acquisition can only be beat one way: putting the right people in the right roles. How do we do that? By perfecting selection. Selection can be managed with internally, with a 3^rd party recruiter or using both. Whichever your company decides to go with you must ensure that their skills, personality, and values align with the job and the company. Developing Interview strategies that include pre-established critical screening questions, an in-depth career history review and custom built behavioral interview models prevent the unhealthy corporate impact as well as the high cost of a mis-hire.

Over all the corporate response must be to link employee performance and its impact on the organization’s business goals. Doing this will keep employees goals align with the company’s, creating increasing accomplishment and happier on track employees.

So try something different, create a new hiring process, change the way you interview and beef up your leadership training and finally retain the talent you need. 

To learn more about retention, talent management and see how to create a conscious hiring process, visit us at keenhire.com. We equip companies with systems, processes and people to hire & retain with clarity and insight.

By: Emily Eastman

Don't Let Your Leaders Be Stuck In The Past; Implement 21st Century Leadership Principles Now!

There are many extremely effective leadership styles. The purpose of this program is to enable new and experienced managers to breakthrough leadership barriers that inhibit freedom, self-expression and joy in the workplace.

We focus with you on bringing forth best leadership practices, enhancing your management operating style, implementing accountability systems, encouraging an awareness of your impact on others, and building and developing high-performance teams.

Webinar Info

Registration: FREE

Click HERE to Register

Date: Oct 12, 2011

Time: 10:30AM- 12:00PM PST

 

The intention is to further the goals of your organization through developing the next-level managers, leaders and executives.

In this fast moving program you learn the core distinctions of effective leadership. You maximize your natural leadership strengths and leverage your core competencies to inspire, motivate and lead your team while ensuring key objectives and performance indicators are achieved.

21st Century Leadership Take Aways:

• Fundamentals of Authentic Leadership
• Create Powerful Mission Centered Meetings
• Goal setting tools that turn ideas into action
• Mastery Steps for Professional Leadership Development
• Tools for Building & Developing a High Performance Team
• Self Management strategies that eliminate time bandits and unworthy distractions

When you play to your strengths and apply proven 21^st century leadership principles, your experience of managing and leading transforms from forcing, pushing and driving outcomes to empowering, inspiring and achieving fulfillment.

The Expert

Margaret Graziano is a torchbearer in the Staffing and Recruitment industry. Her visionary ability, astute knowledge of full life cycle Talent Management and her tenure in the field, positions her far ahead of the Human Capital innovation curve. In the early 2000's Graziano shifted her mindset from recruiter working to make a placements to consultant committed to building extraordinary workforces. She added a talent management division to her staffing operation, adopted a world-class Conscious Hiring and placement process and significantly invested in her own personal and professional development. She utilizes her certifications in Organizational Development, Behavioral Interviewing, Psychometric Assessment usage, Role Analysis and Employee Retention to create curriculum and programs that elevate KeenHire's customers' ability to hire and retain the right people.

Join us to explore and create a leadership plan of action for yourself and your future that it inspires you to take the actions that lead to success! Click HERE to register NOW!

Cutting Edge Talent Analyst Position Now Open! San Jose

You are a full life cycle recruiter who loves what you do! You experience yourself as a person who operates with a high level of integrity, and you want to work in an environment that rewards your high quality standards and precise candidate recommendations. You are an analytical and service-minded professional with a solid and stable work history, 5 years of expertise in recruiting, and 3 years of selection-based hiring and recruitment process efficiency. You have well defined organizational and planning skills and a strong desire to make a difference for people in their careers, lives, and workplaces. 

As a KeenHire Talent Analyst you are a key staff person responsible for quality assurance and for delivering in Top Grading and Recruitment initiatives on time and within budget. 

You pride yourself on your solution-oriented behavior; your critical thinking skills and your excellent follow up and follow through as well as your highly effective talent evaluation and matching skills. You enjoy a highly productive, fast paced work environment where you have to juggle multiple priorities daily to meet your customer and candidates’ needs. You thrive in a role where you are the ultimate quality assurance person responsible for making an organizational impact, achieving quality standards and strengthening customer relationships. 

We are KeenHire Talent Management; we provide the next generation of recruitment and retention solutions to growing organizations where hiring the RIGHT mission critical, key contributor and leadership talent for the right roles is imperative to their success. We are growing and need the right person to work as an integral part of our team and act as a key contributor in this very important Recruitment, Project Management and QA role.

The ideal opportunity for you is one that you are challenged at every day, where you get to continually learn new concepts, skills and processes and one that allows you to work with a team of committed individuals who are out to make a difference and shift what is possible in the workplace.

You enjoy working in an upbeat, inspiring office with a committed team. You are excited about the monthly opportunity to travel and grow your career. The ideal role for you for you allows you to play to your strengths, be a ‘go to’ team member add value and make a difference for your customers and peers. 

Job Requirements 

• 5+ years full cycle recruiting
• 3 yrs selection-based hiring and recruitment process efficiency 
• Excellent phone voice
• Persuasive communicator
• highly attuned analytical skills
• MS Office

Get excited about a career with KeenHire! Click HERE to apply now!

Conscious Hiring: An Operationally Efficient Sales Hiring Process That Gleans World-Class Results

As business leaders of scaling organizations you know that the success of your organization  depends on the quality of the people inside. KeenHire Talent Management’s Conscious-Hiring webinar enables you to learn how to identify the right people for the right roles directly impacting your ability to achieve corporate sales objectives.

Registration for Conscious Hiring Webinar is FREE

Date: August 2, 2011

Time: 10:30 - 12:00 PST

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW!

During this high-powered webinar you change the way you think about your employees' impact on your business while raising your level of expertise and control in choosing your sales team wisely.

By engaging in this Conscious Hiring process you hone in on the key elements it takes to produce consistent sales results in your sales organization and you learn to identify the core sales behaviors, values and competencies needed to achieve those results reliably over time.

You walk away with:
1. A blueprint for creating a highly effective Conscious-Hiring process
2. Insight into Role Analysis, and why it is the key to effective sales hiring
4. Understand how & why to use psychometric assessment tools
5. Review Behavioral Interviewing techniques; the when, why and how

 

The Expert

Margaret Graziano is a torch bearer in the Staffing and Recruitment industry. Her visionary ability, astute knowledge of full life cycle Talent Management and her tenure in the field, positions her far ahead of the Human Capital innovation curve. In the early 2000's Graziano shifted her mindset from recruiter working to make a placements to consultant committed to building extraordinary workforces. She added a talent management division to her staffing operation, adopted a world-class conscious hiring and placement process and significantly invested in her own personal and professional development. She utilizes her certifications in Organizational Development, Behavioral Interviewing, Psychometric Assessment usage, Role Analysis and Employee Retention to create curriculum and programs that elevate KeenHire's customers' ability to hire and retain the right people.

REGISTER NOW!

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Join The Next Generation Of Recruitment At KeenHire! Chicago/ San Jose

As a KeenHire Recruiter/Sourcer you are a core member of our team responsible for delivering top of the funnel candidates to our Full Life Cycle Recruiters. You are a high achieving self-starter with exceptional candidate sourcing skills and a strong desire to work with top tier customers, co-workers and candidates. 
You enjoy prospecting for and making outbound calls to new candidates outside of job boards and top of mind resources. You pride yourself on exceeding production goals and quotas.

You are a persuasive communicator who connects and builds rapport with new people quickly and easily. You have a keen ability to read, evaluate and glean people’s competencies, talents, passions and goals quickly.  You are creative, intuitive and tenacious. You have the drive, passion and quick wit to plan your sourcing efforts, independently work your plan and pivot as needed.

We are KeenHire Talent Management; we provide the next generation of Recruitment and Human Capital solutions to growing organizations where hiring the RIGHT mission critical, key contributor and leadership talent for the right roles for the right price is imperative to their success.

You enjoy the flexibility of working remotely, are available at least 2 evenings per week, have a home office and updated office technology. You are excited about the opportunity of expanding your career and learning cutting edge Recruitment and Human Capital solutions.

The ideal opportunity for you allows you to play to your strengths, enjoy the freedom and financial rewards that a Recruiting/Sourcer role with performance incentives offers you, and a career that puts you in the forefront of a game changing Talent Management solution.

Job Requirements 

• 5-10 years outbound calling / sales experience
• Strong Sales Experience
• Excellent phone voice
• Persuasive communicator
• MS Office
• You must have the ability, skill and desire to source candidates for Sales Opportunities

Begin delivering Top Grading initiatives and join a recruiting mission critical to leadership talent!

APPLY NOW!

Hiring in "The Office"

As many of us have experienced, hiring a new manager can be tough; especially if they have big shoes to fill. For any hiring team, the selection process can be long, drawn out, and even destructive if you don't have a cemented hiring process. You'd might as well throw the names in a hat and just choose, right? Wrong.

One of the United States' most popular shows, "The Office," is going through the same thing. From their finale episode entitled "Search Committee," we can see that they have a tough road ahead of them and have been stuck with some finicky candidates. Unfortunately for the committee, Dunder Mifflin has experienced two of the wackiest leaders in the business in Michael Scott and DeAngelo Vickers (Michael Scott & Will Ferrell), and has to keep their employees happy.

A proper hiring process will take their senior-level employees and value their opinion to help make the smartest possible decision for new Regional Manager. With a little help from behavioral interviewing, they will weed out the bad eggs, and even shine light on similarities between a new hire and a previous success. If there's one thing for sure, "The Office" needs to rethink their hiring process and take action towards fulfilling the position at hand.

Does your Organization Work to Keep Its Top Performers?

Think about it: Your company's only truly sustainable competitive advantage, which cannot be copied by competitors, is your corporate culture and the strength of your leadership. Does your company reward innovation, reinforce positive results and cultivate relationships with its top performers? Or do you find yourselves consistently losing top talent?

If so, ask yourself another question: How actively does your organization identify, invest in and motivate leaders? If you ignore this important component of talent development, top performers might leave because of lack of opportunity, and your organization will never achieve its true potential.