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.

Tips for Better Hiring: Resume Red Flags

Cher once sang a song about knowing how much a man loves you by measuring the quality of his kiss. Don’t underestimate the powerful messages of a resume and how much they can reveal about a potential employee from the very beginning. What do resumes really say about candidates applying for a job in our companies?

The following information highlights some of the most important resume red flags that all employers should be aware of so that they can learn how to hire better and recruit the perfect candidate for each and every position within their company. KeenHire knows what the resume red flags are and we know what kinds of candidates you should avoid at all costs....

Typos
If a potential employee cannot even manage to send you a CV that is free from typing errors when applying for a job in your company, why would you even consider interviewing them, let alone hiring them?

If there are typos in a candidate’s CV, the advice that the recruitment experts at KeenHire would give you would be to ignore their application completely.

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.

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:

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

Does Effective Sales Hiring Advice Exist?

Of course effective sales hiring and recruiting exists! The thing is that you have to know where to look and what to look for.

KeenHire is a sales hiring and recruitment specialist company which can help and advise you with all your sales hiring needs via a number of different means and channels that we will highlight today within this post.

Working with the KeenHire Sales and Recruitment Advice Experts directly
At KeenHire, it is our job to find the best of the best to help you with your sale hiring needs. We have the time to dedicate to the subject of sales hiring advices and sales recruitment tools (see below) for example. We have the time to dedicate to this area that you do not have whilst trying to manage and run your business.

This is why it is important that you start to use our company to help you directly with the sales hiring advice that you need. Finding the best sales employees for your business is going to be a top priority for you and there are doubtless many things that you are looking for in those employees.

You might be interested in finding ways of ensuring that you employ sales people who will stay with your company for long periods of time. You might be interested in receiving sales hiring advice to help you determine what kinds of advertisements are going to attract the right kind of people to your business.

Whatever your needs, contact the sales hiring advice team at KeenHire directly before you do anything else. In this way we will be able to help you fully take advantage of the sales recruitment knowledge and experience that we have to share on a daily basis.

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.

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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.

7 Steps to Hiring Better Salespeople

In today’s business economy, you simply can’t afford to hire a sales person who doesn’t immediately and consistently contribute to your bottom line.

Senior Level Sales Leaders need to be confident they’re hiring the best salesperson for future key contributor, mission critical, and high growth industries.

As a Sales Leader focused on scaling your sales force, KeenHire shows you how to cut through the flashy personality and exaggerated resume and accurately evaluate if a sales person is going to contribute significantly to the prosperity of your company. We teach you how to assess if a sales candidate can hold steady when the going gets tough, and has the ability to overcome obstacles and effectively sell your company’s products and services.

In KeenHire’s presentation, we share how you, as the key Sales executive decision maker for your organization, can leverage these tools and selection techniques in attracting, evaluating, and hiring top-performance salespeople each and every time.