Category: Recruiting Effectiveness
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Recruiting with Intention
Posted on 01.21.2020
We don’t hire people to lose them. So, establishing an effective recruiting process is vital for your business to attract, retain and engage an inspired team. We at Achilles Group believe that the first phase to successfully grow your workforce consists of Intentional Recruiting Methods. In today’s positive economic environment, finding the right person for … Continue reading
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Sorting the Response Wave
Posted on 01.04.2020
In a previous blog post on Recruiting Effectiveness, we discussed identifying key realistic attributes and skillsets for your new hire. Now that the resumes are pouring in, how can you effectively handle that wave of screening to find the best candidates? Here are tips to help: Understand the job description and know what you are … Continue reading
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Stop Chasing the Purple Squirrel. Do These 4 Things Instead.
Posted on 09.04.2019
As a business owner, it’s easy to get stuck in a hiring tailspin when looking for your next employee. In a perfect world, the “right” candidate, or what we like to call “Purple Squirrel”, would deliver their resume straight to your inbox within hours of posting your job, checking off every box and meeting every … Continue reading
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Recruiting In A Hot Job Market
Posted on 04.27.2019
It’s no secret that the job market is the hottest it’s been in 50 years. Because of this, job candidates can afford to be selective about their employment prospects. In order to attract the best candidates to your business, you’ll need to put your recruiting efforts into overdrive. Here are a few tips to enhance … Continue reading
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Recruiting Effectiveness: Scoreboard & Metrics
Posted on 01.03.2019
In addition to providing ongoing support and training for your hiring managers, it’s essential to maintain a candidate pipeline, track turnover and create a metrics-driven scoreboard to continually evaluate your organization’s recruiting efforts. Maintaining a candidate pipeline will assist in forecasting and planning your hiring needs. Instead of reacting to a workload crisis and rushing … Continue reading
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Recruiting Effectiveness: Create Sustainability
Posted on 12.26.2018
So, you’ve successfully hired and on-boarded your newest employee. You might think the recruiting process is complete and it’s time to resume your normal job responsibilities. And while part of that is true, the recruiting process is an ongoing initiative. What can be done to proactively educate managers on recruiting practices? The answer is to maintain … Continue reading
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Recruiting Effectiveness: Close the Deal, Connect & Engage
Posted on 12.17.2018
You’ve finally narrowed down your job candidates and selected one you’d like to hire. Now, it’s time to extend a job offer and on-board your newest employee. Follow these three tips to successfully close the deal, then read through our onboarding checklist to welcome your new-hire to your organization. Closing The Deal Don’t Waste … Continue reading
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Recruiting Effectiveness: Determine Your Top Candidates
Posted on 12.12.2018
Now that you’ve completed the interview process for your job opening, it’s time to determine the top candidates for the role. You might already know who you’d like to hire, or you might feel torn between a few star candidates who are equally qualified for the role. How do you decide on the one final … Continue reading
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Recruiting Effectiveness: Evaluate Your Interview Process
Posted on 12.05.2018
So, you’ve successfully navigated through the process of sorting through resumes and selected key candidates you’d like to learn more about. Now it’s time for the next step of Recruiting Effectiveness – interviewing applicants. It’s no secret that interviewing can be overwhelming, even for the most experienced hiring manager. But it doesn’t have to be. … Continue reading
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Recruiting Effectiveness: Narrow the Field
Posted on 11.27.2018
The fourth step in Achilles Group’s Recruiting Effectiveness process is to the Narrow the Field or eliminate resumes from your response pool that don’t fit the bill of what you’re looking for in a job candidate. This involves sifting through resumes and conducting phone screens and occurs after you’ve selected your recruiting methods and posted … Continue reading
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Recruiting Effectiveness: Select Recruiting Methods
Posted on 11.13.2018
Once your hiring team has been established, it’s time to take the next step in the recruiting process, and get the word out about your open position. But what is the best way to do that? Well, there isn’t just one method that works better than others. You will likely have to use a combination … Continue reading
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Recruiting Effectiveness: Establish a Commitment to Hire
Posted on 11.07.2018
Last week, we discussed the importance of setting yourself up for recruiting success by putting a recruiting process together within your organization, as well as gathering the necessary tools for recruiting success. Once this step has been taken, it’s time to establish a commitment to hire, which is the second step in our recruiting effectiveness … Continue reading
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Setting Yourself Up For Recruiting Success
Posted on 11.01.2018
So, you’ve decided it’s time to hire someone. From the search for the right candidate to onboarding your new employee, the recruitment process can be overwhelming. There are many factors to consider when hiring a new employee, and it’s best to make the hiring process as efficient as possible in order to find the right … Continue reading
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Benefits and Perks Still Matter
Posted on 08.07.2018
“Reports listing the benefits and perks that entice job seekers to submit an application can revolutionize a firm’s recruiting strategies. When employers know what potential hires want in a job, they can decide where to channel resources.”
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Recruiting Effectiveness After Hire: On-Boarding
Posted on 07.30.2018
At Achilles Group, we believe that it takes an ongoing, internal dialogue to build Recruiting Effectiveness. This dialogue does not end once your open position has been filled, it continues through the onboarding process. Onboarding is a critical step in the recruiting process and sets the stage for an employee’s successful tenure at your company. At … Continue reading
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Effective Recruiting Methods and Techniques
Posted on 07.24.2018
Recruiting effectiveness is part of Achilles Group’s cohesive best practices framework. Using effective recruiting methods and techniques, Achilles collaborates with organizations to create a competitive recruitment game plan, and then assists them making decisions that are efficient and economical. As far as methods, they vary by position. Effective recruiting methods for a multiple hire situation may … Continue reading
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Recruiting Effectiveness at OGsys
Posted on 07.16.2018
Last month’s Success Story featured OGsys and their experience with Achilles Hourly Recruiting. OGsys President, Chuck Blanton, is back this month to share his thoughts on how Achilles Group’s Recruiting Effectiveness has impacted their business during an important time of new product development. “Our need for a new manager arose at a critical point during the development of our new cloud-based software, OGpro. Being that … Continue reading
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Recruiting Effectiveness: Expand Your Recruiting Megaphone
Posted on 07.10.2018
At Achilles Group, we encourage and even insist on recruiting effectiveness becoming a vital component of your business strategy. Recruiting is no longer a buyers’ market. The tables have turned, and today you must sell careers to candidates. In order to be successful in today’s recruiting landscape, it is necessary to move away from the tried and … Continue reading
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Is Your Recruiting Strategy Paying Off?
Posted on 02.26.2018
So, if your company works really hard to identify your mission-critical talent needs, produces targeted ads, sorts and screens the responses, selects the top candidates, then extends the offer and closes the deal, you’ll be successful, right? No, not necessarily. In fact, more often than not, management teams fail in their recruiting efforts due to … Continue reading
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Let Us Help You With The Hard Work!
Posted on 02.26.2018
Naturally, most of us in the HR field believe ourselves to be excellent judges of character. Therefore, recruiting and hiring good people shouldn’t be too difficult for us, right? But if that’s true, why do so many companies go to outside agencies to fill their positions? Are they better judges of character than we are? … Continue reading
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