KeenHire Blog by Margaret Graziano

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.

Market Manager -Chicago

Market Manager

You enjoy selling and business development, creating strategic solutions that meet your customers’ needs as well as becoming an integral part of your customers strategic advisory counsel.  An ideal opportunity for you is one that affords you an opportunity to sell a unique service offering, provides residual income, a sales process that knocks out the competition and gives you the freedom to uncap your income.

You are looking for a high impact business-to-business sales and market manager role. You are inspired about selling customer centric, high value, customizable HR and Talent Management solutions. You pride yourself on your ability to establish and build long-term business relationships, open up new accounts, cross sell multiple service lines and continually grow your customer base. You are looking for the right company to join forces with, one that rewards your tenacity and drive and that affords you the opportunity for growth, development, advancement and a potential equity stake. 

KeenAds: An Account Executive In Silcon Valley

Account Executive/ New Business

Change the Game in Recruitment & Talent Management! 

You pride yourself your ability to build and maintain relationships and bring leading edge solutions to your customer base. You enjoy the selling and business development process and prefer for someone else to manage the details of fulfillment, service delivery and day-to-day administration. An ideal situation for you is one that provides residual income opportunity and gives you the freedom to go get new business while your account base and bank account grows.

You are an innovative, driven, successful professional with strong business–to-business sales experience and a deep Silicon Valley decision maker contact list. Your tenacity and drive rewards you with a strong income and a steady stream of new customers.  Your strategic selling ability makes you well poised to sell to the C suite and deliver high impact business solutions.

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 for the right price is imperative to their success.

You are looking for a high impact sales role. You are keen on selling customer centric, high value, customizable solutions. You chose to utilize your natural talents and play to your strengths while generating a long-term residual revenue stream.

You are well aware that the game of business is forever changed. You are very clear that when you do not offer a differentiated value proposition, a deeper level of service, and a more effective solution that is strategically priced; then someone else will.

In the next 5 years 90% of companies report they need to improve and expand their recruitment and retention programs to compete for the best talent. Many companies state they are ill equipped to manage their expected growth, mitigate their risk in hiring, reduce unwanted turnover and compete for the best U.S. talent for key contributor, mission critical and leadership talent.

KeenHire Talent Management is Growing and needs the right person in Silicon Valley to open doors and close deals. We provide recruitment & talent management process in-sourcing (the people, systems & tools) for companies expanding or shifting their workforce; where making & keeping the right hire effects profitability, customer engagement and retention. Our customers currently do not have the internal capacity or desire to implement or manage effective spike hiring, selection, on-boarding & retention programs.

If you are called to respond to this opportunity, please check out our web site – www.keenhire.com, and the keenhire blog – blog.keenhire.com and let us know in your phone interview why you believe we are a good match for one another.

To Apply click here

 

Excellent New Talent Needed For Recruiter Position

You are a high achieving self-starter with exceptional people skills and a strong desire to work side by side with top tier professionals.  You have recruited and placed over 500 people in full time roles throughout your career. You pride yourself on making high quality hires that exceed performance metrics and advance your customer’s retention goals.

We are KeenHire. We provide Insourced HR, Recruitment and Talent Management solutions for strategic-minded Business leaders committed to building with the best. You are a persuasive communicator who connects and builds rapport with new people easily. have a keen ability to read, evaluate and glean people’s competencies, talents, passions and goals with grace and ease.

You are creative and intuitive.  You appreciate proven systematic processes that aid you in delivering results.  Your drive, passion and intelligence facilitate you in learning new systems quickly, training others and efficiently managing growth.      

We partner with top executives and international business leaders to build In Sourced recruitment and Talent Management programs while maximizing our customer’s returns on their people investments.  We deliver the highest quality results in cost effective manner and create long-term impact.

You are highly motivated to become part of a 21^st century consulting firm and catapult your career!

 

Requirements:

    5 years of recruiting for high touch (sales, management, service) roles

    Expert at Internet and live candidate sourcing, i.e. name generation

    System and Process orientation - quality and efficiency driven

    Strong integrity

    Management potential 

Click HERE to apply!

Shifting The Context For Employee Performance Reviews

You walk into the manager’s office and close the door. It has been nearly a year since you last sat in this room. Today is your yearly performance review, but as you both shuffle papers, you haven’t a clue what is going to be discussed.

You’ve done great work, but does your manager know that? When’s the last time the two of you discussed your objectives, or you received any kind of feedback? Every day you work hard, but what’s it all amounting to?

If this scene is familiar, or if your organization also struggles with performance management, you’re certainly not alone. It’s a common problem for companies, especially during performance reviews. At KeenHire, we traced performance management issues to a few deficiencies, specifically a lack of performance indicators, misplaced priorities and improper managerial training.

Optimize Performance Indicators

Without clear, established performance indicators, it’s difficult for both managers and employees themselves to measure success. Many times, a manager will establish performance metrics, but won’t develop a way to effectively measure and track those indicators.

Along those lines, if metrics are not tied to a company’s objectives or if the position lacks a well-defined purpose, it’s hard to measure an employee’s long-term success or improve corporate performance.

Improve Performance Management – Make It Priority No. 1

If a company doesn’t consistently dedicate time and resources to performance management, it won’t develop a culture of ongoing growth, especially if performance reviews are conducted on just a yearly basis.

Without feedback from managers, employees can’t improve performance, learn and grow. Also, without regular interaction, the employee-manager relationship suffers, which directly impacts the effectiveness of performance reviews. If managers don’t understand the day-to-day activities of their employees, how can they accurately evaluate corporate performance?

Performance Management 101

If managers are not trained in how to provide effective, meaningful feedback, no matter how accurate a position’s performance metrics or how regular evaluations are, a performance review is still destined to fail.

Especially if managers don’t like to give criticism, reviews can become overly lenient, biased and ultimately ineffective, which makes performance improvement difficult.

The KeenHire Solution

At KeenHire, we believe to optimize performance management systems you need a strong, well-designed hiring process. Without a good hiring practice, companies fail the first test of performance management – matching the right people to their ideal position.

However, “most companies have problems with performance management because they either have not identified clear metrics for effective performance on the job, or do not measure those metrics objectively or haven’t tied them to development and rewards,” says Stephanie Marberry, PhD; Organizational Development consultant and Keenview product manager at KeenHire.

That’s why we developed the KeenHire 5 Pillar Conscious Hiring and Selection process. With it, we help your organization build a solid foundation and improve performance management.

• Organizational Workforce Planning
• Key Contributor Benchmarking and Role Analysis
• Candidate Sourcing
• Selection
• On-boarding

We’ll help you every step of the way, from thoroughly defining a position’s unique purpose to outlining its performance management metrics and long-term objectives. During performance reviews, you’ll have all the resources necessary to measure the position’s success and accurately evaluate the employee.

If you’re looking to learn from the finest recruiters and Organizational Effectiveness consultants, join us at our certification program KeenHire Talent Management’s Talent Strategy 3.0. You’ll learn to:

• Build and develop your people strategy
• Create an employee brand proposition
• Search for and select the perfect candidate
• Improve your on-boarding, training, and optimize performance management and employee development programs

After becoming certified, you can use your knowledge to improve corporate performance management systems across your organization and develop and retain your employees.

To learn more about Talent Strategy 3.0 and other seminars, head to our KeenHire seminars page. To see how a KeenHire consultant can improve performance management systems at your company, contact us today.

After becoming certified, you can use your knowledge to improve performance management systems across your organization and develop and retain your employees.

To learn more about Download EmployerofChoice-TS3.0 and other seminars, head to our KeenHire seminars page. To see how a KeenHire consultant can help improve your company’s performance management systems, contact us today. 888-533-6447

KeenHire Recruiter Certification Training - November 11, 2010

Performance Based Hiring Model Certification Training Agenda 11.11.10-11.13.10

THURSDAY AFTERNOON – Margaret Graziano

1:00-1:40         Montage, KeenHire Story, Charter  

1:40-2:10         Business Case

2:10-3:15         KeenHire Business Model Presentation

3:15-4:30         Conscious Hiring Presentation

4:30-5:00         Download 26step Conscious Hiring Process

5:00-6:00         Keen Case Studies (Duncan, Discovery, Clark, Les Mills)

6:00                  Social

7:00                  Dinner – Thea, San Jose  

FRIDAY MORNING – Margaret Graziano

8:00-9:30          Benchmarking/Role Analysis Overview

9:45-10:45        KPI Role Play

10:45-11:15      Task Analysis

11:15-11:45      Cluster Tasks

11:45-12:30      Selection Criteria (working lunch)

FRIDAY AFTERNOON -  Dr. Stephanie Marberry

1:00-2:15         Assessments & Behavioral Interviews - Why are they keys to hiring success?

2:30-4:00         Assessment Presentation

4:00-6:00         Introduction to Behavioral Interviewing Presentation and Software

6:00                  Social

7:00                  Dinner – Maggianos, San Jose  

SATURDAY MORNING – Dr. Stephanie Marberry

8:00-9:30         Behavioral Movies

9:30-10:00       Matrix Ranking

10:00-10:30     Pick Questions & Overview of Keentip and scoring (recruiter)

10:30-11:00     Mock Interview Role Play I

11:00-11:30     Mock Interview Role Play II

11:30-12:00     Rapid Recall

MANUALS & RESOURCE MATERIAL

• 26 Step Process
• Behavioral Interview

SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS

• 26 step overview (in manual)
• Sample Assessments (KeenClues, TriMetrix, Achiever)
• Behavioral Scan
• Training documents for sending and pulling assessments

 

 

Acing the HR Interview

Join Margaret Graziano and the Northern California Human Resource Association this Friday at 10:00 a.m. for a fabulous, informative and inspiring presentation specifically geared towards Human Resources professionals on Acing the HR Interview. 

 Whether you are an HR Consultant, Recruiter, HR Strategist, Benefits Manager, Strategic Business Partner, VP of HR, CPO, in Talent Acquisition, Talent Management or an Executive Search consultant the game of Human Resources and everything tied to it has changed.

Smart companies are adding roles such as Chief People Officer and giving that role the complete responsibility for maximizing the company's returns on their people investments. These key roles are created to own the processes and results for recruitment, employee retention, employee engagement, training and development, performance management, succession planning and more. Other firms are adding roles such as Director Talent Acquisition, VP of Talent  Management and Employee Retention Specialist.

Given the only true differentiation any company really has is in the people they employ to create, deliver and manage their service, "People" Management has become a strategic issue.   

 

The current state of the economic rebound, globalization, competition, price wars and emerging industries are just some of the compelling issues facing companies; add in the mass amount of people looking to retire and the 15.3% fewer workers available for the next generation of leaders and do not forget the millennial generation who have a ton to offer yet no business or people savvy and you have a perfect talent management storm. This storm creates an abundance of opportunities for strategic and business minded Human Resource industry professionals. 

If you are up for the game, the next 10 years is the prime time for you to make your impact and leave your legacy. If you are exceptional at what you do, have a strong work ethic, think like a business person, have a healthy mix of concern for people and profitability and are willing to continue your education and stay ahead of the curve, there are no limits on what you can accomplish.

Margaret Graziano's Acing the Interview presentation enables you to evaluate your talents and strengths and target them towards business that needs what you offer.  It delves into what you need to know about yourself and things you ought to consider before putting yourself in front of opportunities. The presentation digs into what and how the employers think when they are interviewing you, it teaches you how to communicate to your buyer (the employer).

Additionally and most importantly, the presentation gives you the tools to knock the socks off of the companies you are interviewing with.  Join us this Friday from 10:00-11:30. Register now!

Employer of Choice. Train Your Managers To Retain The Best Employees

The Premise

With a rocky economy, emerging industries on the rise, four generations in the workforce, Sr. level leaders on the verge of retirement or redeployment and a sea of talent management issues knocking at your door, it is time to start thinking about how our company will maximize it’s return on your people investments.

 

The Society of Human Resource Management reports that 6 of the top 10 Workplace Trends are directly related to talent acquisition, selection & retention.

 

The number 1 trend to most likely have a major impact on the workplace is workforce retention, and the most critical HR function effecting business strategy is Staffing/Employment and Recruiting.  Companies who know that people are their competitive advantage are focusing on achieving organizational effectiveness, implementing stronger hiring processes, improving employee engagement, impacting workforce retention and elevating the performance of their people.

 

The KeenHire™ Talent Strategy 3.0 program empowers employers to take a new look at their human resource processes and their approach to Talent Management, Recruitment, Performance Management, Employee Engagement and Key Contributor Employee Retention.

 

Join us for this provocative, insightful and fun program that delves into the corporate strategic talent management and workforce performance issues and highlights innovative and practical solutions to solve them.  Click Here NOW to register.

 

The Program

We delve into your company's employment recruitment and retention issues, dispel the myths and uncover critical issues that affect your company’s ability to attract and keep the right people in your key contributor and next level leadership roles.

-Employee Retention-Understand the difference between Talent Equity and Tenure Equity. Review the generational parameters and influencers effecting employee engagement & retention. Delve into practical retention strategies and how to implement them into your day to day business.

-Workforce Assessment-Learn the organizational development approach to uncovering your company's people challenges.  Work with Benchmarking and Top Grading and learn how it can help you help your company maximize it's returns on it's people investments and mitigate hiring, engagement & retention mistakes.

-The Talent Mindset-Understand how a change in mindset is imperative to your company's ability to attract and retain the right people in the right roles. Strategize on astute methods, keen processes and provocative employee programs that forward your company to be an Employer of Choice.

-The Real Cost of Employee Turnover-Work through a hands on deep digging exercise and uncover the painful impact of hiring the wrong person or keeping the wrong person in a key role.

Take Aways

1. You gain hands on experience in uncovering the Real Cost of Employee Turnover and the impact that it has on your ability to achieve your corporate strategic objectives.

 

2. You learn the organizational development methodology for assessing your company’s real human capital needs.

 

3. You gain competence and capability to improve your company's ability to attract, select, engage, manage and retain your mission critical, key contributor and next level leadership talent.

 

4. You walk away with power and prowess as well as hundreds of practical employee retention strategies and employee engagement initiatives that forward your company's ability to incorporate the Talent Mindset into your everyday management and people practices.

  

The Expert

Margo coaches business leaders on building strategic minded stakeholder centric organizations. Her expertise in Strategic planning and Organizational effectiveness position her in a senior level Executive advisory role. She has developed proprietary work flow process, training and tools that enable her customers to implement Conscious-hiring protocols, High performing Recruitment initiatives, Employee Retention and Leadership development.

 

Want to Bring a KeenHire Consultant In-house? Call Today! 1-888-533-6447

 

 

Registration

 

Virtual Courses consist of 8 weekly 2 hour sessions and begin on June 18, August 9, September 17 and costs $599.00 per person. Save 30% overall when you register 3 or more participants.

 

Maximize Your Effectiveness with the Success Factor

The Premise
You are the sum of the results produce in life. While some like to point to luck being at play when great success is reached. I say luck is what happens when hard work and preparation meet opportunity and inspired action.

This high-energy, collaborative program highlights the drivers and levers that bring long-term personal and business success.

If YOU are really the source of your own success it is powerful to take a look at how that success happens.

The thoughts you have, the beliefs you hold, the actions your take, the people you surround yourself with, what you spend your money on and how you spend your free time is all about your choices; and your choices determine your outcomes. 

Explore and create a vision for yourself and your future that it inspires you to take the actions that lead to success.  Click here to Register NOW

The Program

•    You to the 5th power

•    Engaging Risk

•    Making the Right Choices

•    Being Unstoppable

•    Commitment – Living inside a context for winning

The Takeaways

1. Goal setting tools that turn ideas into action

2. Actionable activities that sharpen your saw

3. Heightened awareness of what stops you and how to cut that off at the pass 

4. Self Management strategies that eliminate time bandits and unworthy distraction

5. Resources to maximize your strengths

The Expert  

At 21, single mother Margaret Graziano had a tough choice to make: to fight for child support or try supporting her family with a straight commission sales job. She chose the latter and never looked back. Graziano began her personnel career as an employment consultant earning a six dollar an hour draw and within 10 years, had opened her own staffing agency. In testament to her business savvy she has established a client base stemming from 80% repeat business, earned more than $5,000,000 in personal “desk production” income, and placed more than 2,000 candidates in direct hire positions with a 98% placement satisfaction rating.

 

Want to Bring a KeenHire Consultant In-house for Training? Call Today! 1-888-533-6447

 

Registration

Virtual Courses consist of 6 weekly 1 hour sessions and begin on Monday evening June 14, August 9, October 4 at 6:00 pst and costs $299.00 per person. Save 30% overall when you register 3 or more participants. Click NOW to Register.