Recruitment – 15 Top Tips to Attract Talent

Recruitment – 15 Top Tips to Attract Talent

This week the WSJ confirmed that Smaller Businesses are suffering from slow job growth – Headcount rose just under 1% in April compared with 2018. Note small businesses are defined here as employing < 20 people that’s 89% of US firms – 5.3 million...

Recruitment – The Second Interview

Over the last 12 months I’ve been involved in several recruitment exercises from sales, customer support, engineering, marketing, technical writer across the spectrum of junior to senior positions. Big lesson I’m learning in today’s environment?...
10 Actions to Consider if You Can’t Attract Talent

10 Actions to Consider if You Can’t Attract Talent

Change the content of your web site and the platform (if necessary) to tell a simpler story. Ensure you define the market you are trying to monopolize. Bring out your values in that messaging. Candidates love a cause, a purpose. Really talented curious people want to...
Starting Salaries

Starting Salaries

You get down to one or maybe two shortlisted candidates and you are wondering what package to offer him or her. What do you next? State the package on offer? Ask what her current package is? Contrarian thought of the day. Ask her what base salary she would like to...