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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. 

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

 

KeenHire’s Assessments

Pre-Employment Assessment

KeenInsight

• Pre Screener
• Mental Acuity
• The Big 5 Personality
•  20 minutes to complete
• Average Cost 25.00-40.00 based on volume
• Annual Subscription available based on volume (unlimited usage)

Mid-level Position Employee Assessments

Personal Interests, Values and Motivators

• Excellent Prelim assessment for key roles (e.g., Sales)
• Six Key Motivators (e.g., social, individualistic, utilitarian)
• 10 minutes to complete
• $85 per assessment

Personal Skills and Competencies

• Excellent for hiring, on-boarding, and coaching
• 64 skills and emotional intelligence (e.g., resiliency, self-starter, goal orientation, empathetic outlook, interpersonal skills, personal accountability)
• Identify basic strengths and weaknesses within the candidate’s skills
• Customized Options for Sales, Customer Service and Executive positions
• 10 minutes to complete
• Between $120 – $180.00 per assessment depending on volume

The Job Fit

• Excellent for hiring, on-boarding, coaching and career development
• 6 Mental Acuities
• 10 Personality Factors
• Standardized Benchmarks for 100s of positions (e.g., sales, finance, technology, human resources, management, executive)
• 1 hour to complete
• Between $175-$195 per assessment depending on volume

Executive Level, Leadership & Developmental Assessments

The Innermetrix

•  Hiring, Development, Leadership, 360, RX program
•  Most comprehensive
• Competencies, Behaviors, Values, Emotional Intelligence
•  40 minutes to complete
• Approx $365- $450 per assessment

The DiSC

• Not a hiring tool! Used for on-boarding, communication and team building
• 4 Quadrants of Personality
• Communication Style, Work Style preferences and Job Fit
• 10 minutes to complete
• Approx $62.50 -78.00 per assessment depending on volume and type of report

Not sure what assessment tool is right for you. Learn about selecting the right assessment tool by using our Employee Assessment Consulting Services. Or contact KeenHire to discuss your hiring and performance assessment needs at 888-533-6447.

Behavioral Interviewing Consulting

Our highly skilled Behavioral Interview Consultants help you to determine the right fit before a bad hire is put into action. In the past, a well-written resume and a good surface interview was what positioned employees in their seats. Today, behavioral interviewing is a key component to the hiring process that directly determines the success of your workforce.

Conscious Hiring™

The Strategic Approach to Hiring the Right People.

More than any other period in history, hiring the right person for any key role has become increasingly important for building, growing, and scaling a successful company. There is no magic “talent pool” to drop your line into that’s going to allow you to put the perfect person in that chair. There are simply too many bottom-feeders disguised as trophy-winners. That is, unless you’re using the Conscious Hiring™ process.

With the majority of the business world seriously reevaluating old, stale recruitment and hiring practices, it is our mission to help growing companies scale for success and profitability. Utilizing cutting-edge technology and 30+ years of industry knowledge, our unique approach filters the waste and delivers hiring authorities only top talent matching the requirements for each position, your corporate culture, and motivators of success. Conscious Hiring™ is the single most effective way to hire for mission-critical positions.

Recruitment Consulting

You want to make the most of your human capital investment.  The right people doing what they do best are the driving force for any successful business.  Keeping your workforce happy and on the job is a winning proposition for you and for your employees. Making the most of your human capital requires the best retention and succession planning, full organizational alignment, and excellent leadership. We at Keenhire are employment lifecycle consulting experts who know how to keep your work force engaged for the long term.

Recruiting Millennials? Keep it Social and Keep it Simple

Recruiting millennials takes economy of communication and a compelling message, and it also takes relationship building.  This is the challenge and the opportunity if you want to have millennials in your workforce.

For your message to reach the millennial generation, it has to capture their attention immediately.  Millennials have grown up with Facebook and Twitter, and 97 percent or more of them use texts to communicate.  They expect to know within the first phrase of any message whether it matters to them and what action will be required.  They also expect to be familiar with your business before dialogue about work even begins.  Your recruitment strategy must incorporate clear, sharp communication and optimal use of social media.

Make sure that your internet presence is consistent and compelling. 

The millennial generation is not content with job security and a paycheck.  They want to be fully engaged and using their talents at work.  Millennials expect to enjoy their work and to make a significant contribution.  They also expect to be paid well.  Your Facebook, Twitter, Linked-in and website presence should communicate clearly that employee engagement is paramount, and that your workplace is interesting, prosperous, and innovative.  Any discussion about working for your company will be most productive if the candidate already has a positive impression of your business.

Keep your message short and to the point. 

This is the generation that has introduced text into the English language.  They are masters at multitasking, and are accustomed to their vital information in small, digestible installments.  Any message you send, whether it is a recruiting presentation or an email, has to capture their attention in the first sentence and keep it long enough to communicate a call to action.  Relationship building occurs over several communications, not in one long email. 

Create a vivid picture of how great it is to work for you.

An important component of your recruiting message is a good look at what a work day looks like in your business.  Is it interesting?  For millennials, boring is the worst thing to put up with on a job.  Are there opportunities to shine?  Challenges?  Millennials are very social and are skilled networkers. Your communication has to show that opportunities for collaboration, contribution, and employee engagement are plentiful in your business.

What are you tweeting?  What’s on your Facebook timeline?  Are people engaged?  If you have a company blog, do people comment?  Active interchange communicates vitality and opportunity.

To make sure your message is reaching the right people, let one of our Keenhire consultants assess your social media and web strategy.  

posted by Elizabeth Danu

Use the Best Interviewing Tools to Make Better Hiring Decisions

 

The interviewing process is one of the most important for any business. All managers and recruiters need to be armed with a range of the best interviewing tools on the market to ensure that the hire the right person for the job.

This is where the interviewing, hiring and management specialists at KeenHire come into play. We find and develop the best interviewing tools possible to make sure that the people you hire are the people who are really going to be able to take your company to the next stage.

Over the past 5 years, the interviewing and hiring specialists at KeenHire have spent their time evaluating over 100 assessments, analyzing the good and bad points of each kind of interviewing assessment technique before deciding on the best interviewing tools and interviewing books to then represent and feature in “Margo’s Picks.”

We have a number of interviewing tools on sale and we would be happy to go through the details of any of them at any time, so please contact us about the interviewing tools that you are interested in using within your human resources system today.

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