Tag Archives: talent search
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Fair Labor Laws: Why They Matter
Posted on 08.27.2018
On Monday, September 3rd, Achilles Group team members and millions of others across the United States will celebrate the 136th Labor Day. Unfortunately, as a people addicted to productivity, many Americans will view this holiday as just another opportunity to get ahead; catching up on work, finally cleaning the house or running errands that slipped … Continue reading
Posted in Compliance
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Strategy Alignment: Communication Is Key
Posted on 08.19.2018
With anything dynamically important to your business or personal life, there needs to be a pretty clear picture of where you’re heading and why it matters. While many organizations know where they are heading, they need help with recognizing how to pull everything together to achieve their goals. One way to do this is to … Continue reading
Posted in Strategy Alignment
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Global Leadership Summit
Posted on 08.16.2018
A few of our team members attended the Global Leadership Summit at The Met last week, where they had the opportunity to learn more about leadership attributes from a variety of speakers. The theme of the event focused on how making mistakes, and persevering through those mistakes, helps create better leaders. Leadership is more than … Continue reading
Posted in Events
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How Well Do You Know The ADA?
Posted on 08.14.2018
The Americans with Disabilities Act celebrated its 28th birthday on July 26, 2018. The goal of this Act, which was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush in 1990, is to ensure that all Americans have access to good, family-sustaining employment. In honor of this momentous occasion, we at Achilles Group would like to help … Continue reading
Posted in Compliance
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Strategy Alignment: Critical Path Decisions
Posted on 08.07.2018
When Achilles speaks of strategy alignment as a key component of our Fractional HR services, we are referring to the way we assist executive groups in organizing their priorities, focusing resources through effective planning and communication competencies and executing plans.
Posted in Strategy Alignment
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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
Posted in Recruiting Effectiveness
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TalentConnection Success at OGsys
Posted on 06.25.2018
TalentConnection may be the solutions for you if the following sounds familiar: Find, hire and keep good people. Sounds like a great set of priorities… So, you develop a clear recruiting profile, place ads and get a big response. Now all you need is the time and technique to quickly work through a hundred resumes … Continue reading
Posted in TalentConnection
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Escaping the “Wave” with TalentConnection
Posted on 06.19.2018
Have you ever felt that the day to day running of your business takes up all of your time? That you couldn’t possibly add anything else to your plate? Operating in the ‘whirlwind’ is exhausting and draining. You may think “if I just had more hours in the day, I’d be able to do it … Continue reading
Posted in TalentConnection
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How Achilles Group Acts as Both Your Teammate and Coach
Posted on 03.06.2018
Fundamentally, leadership is all about getting others to follow the course you set with full competency and commitment. However, the challenge of a leader is that you’re often too busy to sit down and engage your team in a way that allows them to understand your goals and align under the same strategy, so it … Continue reading
Posted in Strategy Alignment
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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
Posted in Recruiting Effectiveness
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Effective Recruiting Is More Than Meets the Eye
Posted on 02.21.2018
Sometimes you can’t see a problem until someone from the outside points it out, and that’s particularly true in the recruiting process. What may initially be a good recruiting strategy for your company could also slow you down as the company gets larger. We wanted to provide you with an example that you might be … Continue reading
Posted in Recruiting Effectiveness
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3 Strategic Alignment Mistakes That Businesses Often Make
Posted on 08.16.2017
According to a recent study by The Economist, 89% of people in business say that formulating strategies appropriate for changing market conditions is very important or essential for competitiveness. But to practice effective strategy alignment, you’ll want to remember these three things: Don’t treat your mission, vision, and values as a strategy unto itself. When … Continue reading
Posted in Strategy Alignment
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Develop and Encourage Profitability
Posted on 07.19.2017
Have you ever heard someone refer to their job as “just a support role”, or “an administrative position”? Our focus as Leaders is often fixated on the sales, technical and production roles and we unintentionally overlook the needs and potential of those we assign to “support roles”. The reality is that administrative and supportive jobs … Continue reading
Posted in People Performance
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Avoid the business growing pains by focusing on People Performance!
Posted on 07.07.2017
People Performance: Growing from a family-style business to a larger company with a more remote management style was challenging, so we were referred to Achilles Group for their expertise. They put us at ease right from the start by being so personable, and their flexible approach worked perfectly for us. They also have great ideas … Continue reading
Posted in People Performance
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The Importance of Strategy Alignment
Posted on 04.05.2017
Leveraging the Right Priorities Fundamentally, leadership is about getting others to go in the direction you set with full competency and commitment. The challenge is that you’re often too busy to sit down to agree upon that direction or to take the time to really lay out the strategies that truly focus on your business … Continue reading
Posted in Strategy Alignment
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Promises Delivered
Posted on 01.17.2017
“First Presbyterian Church, Houston, first came to Achilles Group after our HR Director we had on staff was leaving. It was our former HR Director that actually recommended that we outsource since it was so hard to find one person to keep up with everything. When researching different firms, we found that the larger firms … Continue reading
Posted in Client Success Stories
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Guidance and Support to 2H Offshore, Inc.
Posted on 08.09.2016
“When we first began working with Achilles Group in 2009, we had 38 employees. We reached over 120 before spinning off a small group to create a new company. Achilles has helped us navigate this exciting time by reducing some growing pains via thoughtful counsel, offering timely guidance as we hit different periods in our … Continue reading
Posted in Other
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Job Descriptions ≠ Job Ads
Posted on 08.01.2016
Writing a job ad that recruits the right candidates. In order to recruit the right candidates, you need a carefully crafted job advertisement. A job description is a document that describes the responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for a position. Usually, it follows a predetermined format that’s designed to meet internal HR requirements, not to … Continue reading
Posted in Recruiting Effectiveness
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Encouraging Leaders
Posted on 07.05.2016
We all need leaders in our business, not just managers, expeditors, supervisors or command and control drill sergeants; though all of these have their own place of importance. We need leaders that understand the fundamental power of encouragement. If you want to grow profitability in your business then learn and apply techniques that encourage growth … Continue reading
Posted in People Performance
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Focus on Recruiting Effectiveness
Posted on 06.20.2016
Recruiting strong talent to your team takes so much more than just posting a job ad and interviewing candidates. Recruiting Effectiveness is one of the four focus areas of our Fractional HR model. We bring the expertise and resources to install Recruiting Effectiveness as a competitive advantage. We partner with your leaders to build a … Continue reading
Posted in Recruiting Effectiveness