KeenHire Blog by Margaret Graziano

President Obama- Newest LinkedIn Member!

President Obama now on LinkedIn! Ten short days ago the white house invited LinkedIn to host the President in a town-hall style presentation and Q & A; Monday it became a reality. The President was seeking out unique ways to promote his up coming job bill, The American Jobs Act. President Obama believes “we need to do more than just recover from this economic crisis – we need to rebuild the economy the American way, based on balance, fairness, and the same set of rules for everyone from Wall Street to Main Street. “

This act is simple it will “put more people back to work and put more money in the pockets of working Americans, doing so without adding a dime to the deficit.”

A Presidential invite, and 80,000 people viewing the live video feed over the Internet, creates coverage that brings social media sites like LinkedIn straight to the top. According to the New York Stock Exchange they had a drop in stock in earlier months to $72.14 per share; however, after the town hall meeting closed they were up to $78.70 per share, a 4 percent gain in a very short amount of time!

Promoting a program like this could be easily averted to newspapers, casters or online blogs and such, but President Obama obviously wanted something more. He chose the world's largest professional social networking site to host his movement. Though he had visited facebook just 5 months earlier, this time he has switched gears and put the focus on jobs and the economy; two major issues that figure to dominate the upcoming presidential race and are on the minds of the American people.

This also shows the Presidents respect and recognition for the growth of social media and its influence on Americans. Social Media is the new great way to generate exposure; it opens up any company to new areas that you might not have been in before and has the ability to increase traffic. LinkedIn alone has more than 120 million member, all focused and participating for the same reason- being professionals in the workforce, looking to network with other professionals, explore new opportunities and keep up with what is happening in the business world!

Employers and employees have previously used Professional Social Media Sites, now with our President involved and on LinkedIn who knows what the future may hold!

 

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!

New Exceptional College Graduate Finance Opportunity! Chicago

You are a recent college graduate with a degree in Finance or Entrepreneurialism. You are a highly motivated, driven sales professional-at the core. You have already made up your mind to establish yourself as a financial services career professional. You are thrilled with the idea of having control over your own destiny and experiencing an unlimited earning potential. You are one of the well connected recent graduates, and you are an excellent communicator with a plethora of contacts. Fundamentally, you believe in providing high value consultative services that generate security and financial stability for your customers.

We are representing GCG Financial. GCG has been built on principals that create success for their Advisors and customers. As the 8th largest Financial Services firm in Chicago, they have been led by the Levitz family and leadership team, instilling ethics and morals, as the cornerstone of their business.  The end result is a culture of respect and a team environment where Advisors enjoy both working and representing GCG Financial to their prospects and clients.

As a full-service firm offering one-stop shopping to their customers GCG Financial presents a healthy portfolio of unlimited products.  This permits Advisors an opportunity to become an expert in Insurance, Assets under Management, or Benefits. With a team of nearly 100, the Advisors are fully supported and therefore have more time, to focus on developing their business and portfolio.

You want to bring your personality, tenacity and creativity along with your relationships to an environment that supports your ambitions and mentors you to master the field.
    
GCG Financial believes there is no greater reward than making an impact on other peoples’ lives.  Rewards are prominent at GCG Financial. Monetarily, Advisors experience unlimited income potential and when Advisors are at the upper echelon of productivity, they become eligible for club recognition in the Leader’s Club, Master’s Club, the Circle of Excellence, or for the elite Advisor, the prestigious Black Tie Club. 

Job Requirements 

• 2 years sales and heavy networking during college
• Strong relationship builder 
• Concern and care for your customer's best interest
• Willingness to make outbound sales calls
• Ability to grasp financial concepts, insurance terminology and investment language

Take control over your own destiny and experiencing an unlimited earning potential, apply now!

5 Steps to Building Trust Between Team Members

Talk of trust-building and teamwork in the office may sound a bit touchy-feely to some. These terms connote awkward exercises and ridiculous activities right out of a Dilbert cartoon. Instead, let's think about trust in a professional sense.

Professional trust is not about catching a teammate as he falls back or boosting a colleague at a rope-climbing contest. Professional trust is about sending the message to your team members that you believe in their competence, honesty, and good intentions.  It's about competence, communication, and commitment. How can you encourage professional trust among your teammates?

5 Ways to Retain Your Top Talent

While the recession is easing and unemployment figures are falling, there is another set of numbers that doesn't look so good.

Staffing Industry Executive Forum Recap

2011 marks anew for all industries alike. The Staffing Industry is not immune to change, nor should it pretend to be. Since 2009 a lot has changed, and the Staffing Industry is becoming a whole new animal. From Margaret attending the Staffing Industry Executive Forum in Miami, we've accumulated some valuable information for anyone and everyone involved with the Staffing Industry.

KeenJobs: New Position Available

At KeenHire, we strive to provide our clients with the best candidates for the job. Our proven hiring process is geared to provide results for our clients, helping to launch successful relationships between a company and its employees. We know that talent is everywhere and the right person for the right job can be harder to find that expected. KeenJobs extends our clients' available positions to our readers in search for the perfect candidate! Here is a new position we're currently searching to fill:

An Employment Rant From An Outsider's Point Of View

Getting hired hasn't been a problem for me, nor do I foresee it becoming one in the future. Saying that may surprise many people, especially given the current state of employment in this country, but I'm not done... I'm 20. Now I know what you're thinking, "Damn kids, look what's being put into their heads. They've got no sense of reality," but the only thing I have to say is that times are changing.

If the Job Could Talk...

By Bill J. Bonnstetter

 

JOB TALK

If a job could talk, it would explain precisely what was necessary to achieve superior performance. We could ask it to tell us about the:

• Knowledge a person needs,
• Personal attributes required to drive success,
• Rewards for superior performance,
• Hard skills vital for the job,
• Behaviors necessary to perform at peak levels, and
• Intrinsic motivators.

But we all know that jobs can't talk. If they did, we would certainly hear the real story.

AP survey: Outlook for 2011 economy is brightening

WASHINGTON (AP) — Employers will hire more workers this year, and the economy will grow faster than envisioned three months ago, according to an Associated Press survey that found growing optimism among leading economists.

But unemployment will stay chronically high — nearly 9 percent by year's end, the latest quarterly AP Economy Survey shows. A majority of economists say it will be 2016 or later before unemployment drops to a historically normal rate of around 5 percent.

Economists have become more confident 19 months after the worst recession since the Great Depression ended. Lower Social Security taxes and higher stock prices will embolden Americans to spend more and help power the economy, they say.