Feel like you’re at war for the top guns of the talent pool? Well, you’re not alone.
A recent Manpower survey of nearly 37,000 employers worldwide found that 41 percent felt there was a real lack of available talent.
And they’re not the only ones saying it.
A survey by Development Dimensions International, an HR consultancy firm, and Monster […]

Why are companies offshoring?
Well, according to management-issues.com it’s not because of cost cutting or seeking out the talents of an inexpensive, unskilled workforce, but rather there’s a real shortage of highly skilled engineering and scientific workers in the American workforce. And with the steady decline of new graduates with advanced degrees in these fields, companies have […]

Look around you. The face of the American consumer and therefore the American worker has changed dramatically over the past 50 years. 
In fact, Entrepreneur.com indicates the top three consumer trends to watch are college grads, affluent working women and a growing Asian population (purported to be the fastest growth rate in the South at 31%).
So the […]

Yes, we’ve all heard the old saying, two heads are better than one. And when it comes to hiring, no truer words were ever said. Of course, hiring by consensus does take time and energy. But there are benefits.
Utilizing a team approach when it comes to hiring not only provides a variety of viewpoints and […]

Hiring decisions are based more on personality and chemistry than any other factor. That’s because we all prefer to work with people with whom we are compatible. People we get along with. People we like.
And while it is important when hiring to ensure that candidates have the requisite skills and abilities to perform the job, […]

Hiring the best candidate for a position isn’t a secret. Hiring the best candidate is the result of developing a structured interview process, which includes questions that require a candidate to illustrate their past experience by using specific real life examples. Why?
Research has shown that structured, behaviorally based interviews are more likely to predict performance […]

A company’s culture and value system goes a long way in determining which candidates are the best fit for an organization. Why? Because a company’s culture helps define the norms for expected and accepted behavior within that particular organization.
A lot of companies only have a feeling of what their culture and values are, but they […]

Be careful when defining “must have” job requirements or you may wind up looking for a needle in a haystack. Instead consider hiring for potential.
Hiring for potential is when you hire a candidate that has sufficient skills to perform the job but just needs to add a few others or fine tune those she already […]

The best way to identify the top candidate for a position is to determine the profile of the most successful incumbent. There’s no arguing with success. Yes, sometimes we can be short-sighted and cling tight to the belief that “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
However, when it comes to hiring the best candidate, knowing […]