Archive for the ‘How To Hire Good Employees’ Category

Bad Hires Affected Almost 7 out of 10 Companies, Can Cost $25 – $50K

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

We don’t know about you, but there are about a million things we’d rather spend that kind of money on than to recover from the ill effects of one bad hire. So when we read about a survey of 2,494 hiring managers and HR professionals by CareerBuilder that found 69% of employers reported that their [...]

Why Do So Many New Hires Fail?

Tuesday, February 5th, 2013

When a new hire fails, whose really to blame? The new employee who didn’t deliver what he or she claimed they could, or the employer who didn’t get it right?

Outsourced Recruitment Process: Your Key to Success in 2013?

Tuesday, November 27th, 2012

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A Bad Hire Can Sap Almost a Whole Day Out of a Manager’s Week

Friday, November 16th, 2012

We’ve talked about how much a bad hire can cost you in dollars in the past, but here’s a new way to measure how much they hurt your business.

Hiring Managers: Bad Buzz Travels PDQ on the WWW—Mind Your Ps & Qs!

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

If you are in the middle of the very stressful hiring process, don’t forget that how you treat candidates reflects on your company’s reputation.

Are Your Hiring Managers Up to the Task?

Friday, July 20th, 2012

How often does your company allow unqualified staff members to make decisions that could cost your business thousands of dollars? What about your hiring managers.

What’s the Real Cost of Picking One Bad Apple?

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and anew CareerBuilder survey on the cost of a bad hire. The survey also found that 69 percent of employers reported that bad hires lowered their company’s productivity, affected worker morale and even resulted in legal issues. Ugh!

Keeping Up With the Hiring Trends: Fashionably Hip Edition

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

Riding out the economic downturn has not been easy. People and businesses (even the many famous and successful ones) have cut back on their spending, learning to prioritize and make due with what they have until things looked up again. That said, is your company using the latest, best hiring techniques to locate and attract the best talent from the current sea of applicants looking for work?

(What? This is a human resources blog. What did you expect? Kardashian updates?)

Never Underestimate the Power of Good Background Screening

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

Yeah, yeah. We know. Conducting proper background screenings is expensive and most companies these days needed that new hire yesterday. Does that make it OK to bag the screening process when a candidate looks, you know, pretty legit? Or maybe do a “light” background screening? In a word: No! Any bad hire is costly to [...]

Bummed Out by Benefits

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Health insurance coverage today is a big bummer. A new USA Today/Gallup poll tracking 13 specific job aspects indicates that, when compared to how they felt before the global economic collapse in 2008, American workers today are most unhappy about their health insurance, followed by their chances for promotion and on-the-job stress. The poll results [...]