KeenHire Blog by Margaret Graziano

Hiring Tech/Software Employees in the 2010s

Technology and software is developing at an incredible rate and it will no doubt continue in this vain in the years to come. Therefore, as technology advances and new industries are created (new roles and positions are generated within your company) how are you preparing yourself to find the best software developers and the best computer programmers in the business?

The employment and recruiting specialists at KeenHire know how difficult it can be to find the best software develop for your company because we are contacted every day by many businesses who are experiencing the exact same problem and who are finding it difficult to hold on to those creative and effective computer programmers once they have them within their grasp.

So what is the key to hiring the best software developers of the best computer programmers and then keeping those employees loyal to your company for years and years to come? How can you improve the way in which you approach the hiring of technology whizzes in the bizz?

Forget about the job boards
The demand for technology experts is huge because the industry is developing fast and no business can really now survive and grow without an internet presence of some kind, so forget about advertising on jobs boards.

Get the Best Recruitment Process Advice

The recruitment process for any company is one of the most important processes to focus on at any time. If you cannot find the best way of recruiting the best of the best for you and your company, you are always going to feel frustrated with your workforce and as though your company has no chance of reaching its true potential ever.

This is why it is important to associate yourself with the recruitment process specialists at KeenHire as soon as possible. We are able to provide any manager with the best recruitment process advice around and expand on that advice over time as your company and its needs grow and develop.

It is very important to actively seek out recruitment process advice before launching yourself into another round of disappointing employee searches and this is why the recruitment experts at KeenHire suggest that you get in contact as soon as possible.

Like anything in life, you really need to study the process of recruitment, selection and hiring. It is not something that will come naturally to you. It is something that deserves time and effort so that, in the long run, your company benefits from having the right people employed in the right positions.

The recruitment process advice team at KeenHire have been in the business of providing hiring help and guidance for many years now and what we don’t know about the recruitment process really isn’t worth knowing.

Our recruitment process advice can be accessed in a number of ways and via a number of different methods:

Ask us for Sales Recruiting Help

 

The employment of sales managers is extremely important to any company, but it can also be difficult to recruit the right kind of sales employee for your business. This is why you need sales recruiting help from the KeenHire sales recruitment experts.

Avoid hiring the wrong person to drive your company sales forward by learning from the sales recruitment specialists at KeenHire and taking advantage of the sales recruitment help that we have to offer you here today in this post.

The Best Tips to Help you with your Sales Recruitment Needs

Don’t Wait
Most people wait until the NEED a sales person before they recruit which means that they hire people under a sense of urgency which is never a good thing. Keep your eyes open, look around for new employees even when you are happily staffed and keep records of great candidates on file. Hire when you WANT and not when you NEED.

Rising Unemployment Tax Calls For A Drop In Hiring

The rise in unemployment tax is giving companies around the country a reason not to boost hiring.  Having a significant rise on taxes such as this forces companies to dish out to their laid off works instead of focusing on their currently employed or creating jobs and hiring more people. “More than 30 states have had to borrow billions from a federal fund to cover unemployment benefits for their jobless residents in recent years.”

 Those billions of dollars are doing nothing for our economy, employer are getting slammed with taxes and employees are fighting for their jobs everyday, if they have one at all. Plus, this is only the first of two tax spikes employers are being challenged with, on both the state and federal level.

The president of Strategic Services on Unemployment & Workers' Compensation tells the nation that, "unemployment taxes, which were a relatively low bottom-line cost in 2008, are now becoming a significant cost," Holmes said. "It discourages companies from electing to hire new employees."

So what does this mean? Well for a lot of people it means the continuation of losing jobs, and for recruiters its just tough to watch. Knowing and having a hiring process that works and could decrease unemployment by giving people the right jobs and having them stick.  A conscious hiring process is so key to retaining top talent. Not just creating jobs but putting the right people in the right roles ensuring long term career paths is what puts companies in a better position to have less laid off workers.

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

Some states however are trying to spare their employers; California for example borrowed its $303.3 million interest payment from a disability insurance fund. "We did not want to increase the tax burden on job creators," said Ben Johnson, spokesman for Ohio's Department of Job and Family Services. With the state, employers and recruiters all working together it can maximize the workforce, and ensure lower unemployment and higher employee retention.

By: Emily Eastman

KeenHire finds the Best Interviewing and Employee Assessment Tools

Do psychometric interviewing tools and tests really work? Can you really find the best employees out there by looking at the results from employee assessment tools? Will your sales hiring choices improve if you use some of the online recruiting assessment tools on the market today?

The answer to all the questions above is “yes,” but only if you listen to the expert advice of the sales hiring and recruiting experts at KeenHire.

The fact of the matter is that there are a number of different interviewing tools and employee assessment tools available for all companies and all hiring managers to make use of during the hiring process. The problem is that there are so many to choose from that you need to do some serious investigating before choosing which recruiting tools to use.

KeenHire is an Expert in Sales Recruiting Interviewing and Employee Assessment Tools
The good news is that the sales hiring and recruiting experts at KeenHire are here to help you and reduce the amount of workload you have on your plate by investigating into the many employee assessment tools for you on your behalf.

We make it our business at KeenHire to hunt down new interviewing tools and employee assessment tools and then we test those tools thoroughly before we make a decision about whether or not we would be happy to endorse those particular sales hiring tools in question to members of the public.

Therefore, if KeenHire recommends an employee assessment tool or online interviewing tool via its blog or website, you can be sure that the tool is reliable to use and will deliver excellent results in terms of finding the best of the best for you and your sales company.

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!

Can't make the webinar, visit the KeenHire on line store and purchase tools, workbooks, scripts, manuals, assessments, CD's, DVD's, books and more!

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.