KeenHire Blog by Margaret Graziano

Hiring for Growth

The most important thing that any manager of any business can ever do is hire the right people to work for their company. The hiring and selection experts at KeenHire can help you with hiring for growth in many ways. We can help you choose a team of employees that will take your company to the next level of expansion today.

Keep reading for our very best in hiring for growth tips below...

1. Make use of the tips posted on the KeenHire Blog on a regular basis
If you want your company to grow, you need to employ the right people. The right person for one role in one company is not the right person for the same role in another company within the same industry. The people you choose to hire need to be handpicked carefully to ensure that you are hiring for growth at all times.

The hiring specialists and human resources experts at KeenHire maintain an active and useful blog on hiring tips and employee selection advice so that your knowledge about hiring for growth can develop sufficiently enough to take your company to the next level.

We cannot emphasize enough the importance of regularly tuning in to the KeenHire Blog to find out what is hot and new in the world of human resources and employee selection. Hiring for growth is not something that comes naturally to every employer and therefore any help or advice you can get from employment experts, like those at KeenHire, should always be welcomed with open arms.

What Can Happen When You Hire The Wrong People

Have you ever heard the saying that, “a play is only ever as good as the worst actor in it”? Well... the same applies to business. Your company is only as good as the worst employee that you have working for you. Therefore, hiring the wrong people for your firm can be disastrous.

When we say disastrous, we do not mean that this person might work a little slower than the rest and things might be delayed.

No.

We are talking about your company losing business, losing clients, dropping sales and eventually going bankrupt. All because you have been hiring the wrong people. All because you haven´t learned how to choose the right person for each position you have available to fill.

If a plant in your garden becomes infected with green flies, it can infect the other plants next to it and eventually all plants will die. If you make just one poor decision in terms of recruitment and you choose the wrong person for any role, your whole company could gradually start to go downhill like a train of dominoes.

Recruiting Problems: How Unemployment has Clouded the Candidate Pool

How has the recent period of unemployment made it difficult to hire the right person? Why do you need to advice and expertise of the hiring and selection specialists at KeenHire now more than ever?

The issue is that the increased levels of unemployment have generated a large number of people looking for work, but a large number of people of poor caliber.

In general, the employees who are worth anything in any way have already been snapped up by other companies and this has left a large volume of “employee dregs” at the bottom of the recruitment pool. The human resources training team at KeenHire is ready and waiting to lead you through the process of effective recruitment in these times at any time.

We have a number of different processes, programs, strategies and ideas that we want to share with you as soon as possible, and in particular our Conscious Hiring Process, which will help you to filter out the garbage and employ only the very best.

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.

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.

We Provide the Best Recruitment, Selection Hiring and Retention Tools

If you are having problems recruiting, selecting, hiring and then retaining your sales employees, KeenHire has all the answers that you are looking for. We are specialists in recruitment, selection hiring and retention and we endorse the best employee assessment tools on the market for your convenience.

So, what are the best recruitment, selection hiring and retention tools on the market at present and how can you use these tools to find the perfect employees for your company in record time?

KeenHire has all the answers that you are seeking with reference to recruitment tools and selection hiring assessments and we will share them with you at any time. All you need to do is give us a quick call and we can set up an immediate consultation with you about your company’s specific recruitment and retention needs.

When you are running your business it is almost impossible to find the time to look into the best recruitment and retention assessment tools on the market, which is why KeenHire dedicates its time to do exactly that for you. In this way you will have one less thing to worry about.

Creating Success and Happiness; Putting The Right People, In The Right Roles

Last Thursday, the CEO of one of the most successful businesses in the world announced his resignation. Steve Jobs the co-founder of Apple is signing off to a new era. Jobs has been on sick leave since January of this year and has told the press, “"I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know."

Steve Jobs has given businesses, technology and this country so much. He has been called, "the world's magic man." But why is it that he has been so successful? Well, Jobs makes his path the triumph very clear in his 2005 commencement speech for Stanford University, he will not settle, and he will always love what he does.

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”

Working just to work does not achieve the success and happiness that we all strive for. But how do you find that drive? Where can you look to start a new career path? One that is right for you and creates success and happiness? What is the process in shifting the entire distinction of "work" from somewhere to go and something to do, to one of engagement, productivity and mutual returns?

KeenHire Talent Management specializes in aligning the right people for the right roles with the right companies. We work with our candidates to maximize their strengths, secure the job they want and integrate into their new role with power and ease.

Although right now you need a job, a paycheck and a sense of stability, in a few months reality will set in and you will be left with the question…”Is this the right place for me?”  If the answer is no, the hunt starts again.  The more times you take the wrong job, the more yourself esteem diminishes, your motivation drags and your income lags.

At KeenHire, we work with our candidates to evaluate your career goals, your core differentiators and your winning formula that helps you efficiently and effectively strategize your career search process to select the best fit and eliminate the rest.

 

By: Emily Eastman

 

New HR Admin Role Now Open! Chippewa Falls WI

You are a friendly, reliable and confidential administrative professional with a can do attitude who enjoys providing high-quality HR service in a fast paced industrial work environment.  You enjoy a role that utilizes your administrative skills, HR experience, employee relations and payroll processing. You are a passionate, solution-oriented individual who is eager to help employees resolve personnel /benefit related issues with grace and ease.

As EDI’s HR Administrator, your primary focus is maintaining up-to-date HR data as well as supporting and servicing the employee population.  You are very organized and have great attention to detail.  You enjoy working with in a role where your work supports the accurate recording and filing of HR and employee documents.

We are EDI.  We began as a machine shop with four people in a small town in the Midwestern United States in 1971. Today, we are a global force. As the leading manufacturer of flat extrusion dies, coextrusion feedblocks, and slot die coating heads in the world, more than half of our product is delivered to customers outside the United States.

You have an Associate’s degree and 2-3 years of administrative experience in Human Resources preferably in a manufacturing or plant setting.  Your background working in processing of employee records & payroll, being a go to internal HR service contact and your desire to become PHR certified places you at the top of the candidate pool.

EDI provides innovative solutions with state-of-the-art design techniques, sound engineering principles, and world-class manufacturing methods.  Through our growth, our focus to provide value, quality, and dependable service has held true.

Job Requirements 

• 2 years HR Administration
• Payroll
• HRIS

 

World-Class HR Director Role Now Available! Chippewa Falls WI

You are a dynamic HR professional with a can do attitude who enjoys implementing Best HR practices in a company hungry for improvement.  You are looking to support a company that utilizes all of your expertise and knowledge in HR & Talent Management in a manufacturing environment and gives you the authority & creativity to apply what you know to make a real difference in their ability to scale.

You are excited about an opportunity to be in the lead HR role where you directly impact the organization’s ability to scale.  You are a passionate trendsetter who prides yourself on your commitment to excellence and maximizing your company’s return on its employee investment.

About EDI:  We are EDI. We began as a machine shop with four people in a small town in the Midwestern United States in 1971. Today, we are a global force. As the leading manufacturer of flat extrusion dies, co-extrusion feedblocks, and slot die coating heads in the world, more than half of our product is delivered to customers outside the United States

EDI’s Director of HR has three main focal points - Personnel Management, HR Compliance and Talent Strategy.  One of your first initiatives will be refining and implementing HR policies and processes that improve effectiveness, efficiency and compliance; both domestically and internationally.  As the department manager you set the structure for offering a 1^st class HR service response to every level of employee; as well as high-level guidance and coaching to Managers and Executives.  Most importantly, you are responsible for setting the foundation for EDI to scale four times in the next five years.

EDI provides innovative solutions with state-of-the-art design techniques, sound engineering principles, and world-class manufacturing methods.  Through our growth, our focus to provide value, quality, and dependable service has held true.

Job Requirements 

Experience:  You have a Bachelors’ degree and ten years of HR Generalist/Talent Management experience and at least three years of HR Management experience in a manufacturing or plant setting. You have deep domain expertise in all elements of contributing to a high impact Talent Strategy; including and not limited to Workforce Planning, Comp & Benefits, Recruitment and Hiring Employee Development, Key Contributor Retention and Performance Management - for plant, office, and executive personnel.

Recruitment: Why Change is Good

Global employment is changing rapidly. Within the last 20 years, we've witnessed highs and lows that have redefined the way talent is acquired, assessed, and implemented into the various business environments of the modern world. This change has been a result of global events, government regulations, and a changing economic climate that has demanded efficiency. Not only is this change revolutionizing the recruitment and hiring process, but is benefiting both recruiters and growing companies alike.