The Staffing Advisor

When your organization has a critical job open,  why does it take so long to fill it?  Every month, within a few days of month end,  the finance department produces financial statements.  If they cannot meet this goal, you either replace the people or revamp the systems and processes.    The same is true in...

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In this hyper-competitive world, you already have plenty of problems to contend with, so you certainly don’t have time for self-inflicted wounds.  One of the most expensive self-inflicted wounds is trying to fill a position without first deeply understanding it.   Smaller organizations are filled with one-of-a-kind jobs – departments are often small, responsibilities large, and often only a...

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Robust economic growth and job creation is a wonderful thing, but 2010 is not very likely to look that way.   Yet I still firmly believe (and wrote in our job seeker blog) that 2010 looks good for job seekers in the Washington DC metropolitan area and probably in lots of other areas.  Why? Churn. ...

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Every day I see more recruiters starting to engage with social media.  Understanding social media is no longer optional for recruiting professionals, your career will suffer if you are a Twidiot. But one of the most common mistakes I see from newbies is to assume the social media platforms are a strategy, or that somehow just using...

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When a top executive leaves an organization, everyone scrambles to fill that key vacancy.  But in the hurry to do that, a far bigger turnover problem is often overlooked.   When a key executive leaves, everyone who reported to that executive should be considered a “flight risk” – because the second tier of managers are...

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Surveys indicate that 2010 is going to be a year filled with employee turnover.  And that is a great gift to every manager who is still not managing performance tightly.  Every time an average employee resigns, you have a chance to rethink who should be in the job, to upgrade the caliber of your team,...

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2009 was a tough year to be running a company, yet there were so many blessings, and so much to be grateful for.   Naturally, I’m grateful to my internal team here at Staffing Advisors who took the recession in stride and kept thinking of new ways to do more with less.  This was a year of...

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As human beings, we don’t like looking at our failures.  So we tend not to keep score, or create hard metrics for our own performance.  We’d rather not think about our mistakes and prefer to focus our attention on more pleasant things.   And while not keeping score may be pleasant, it’s also very expensive.  Because...

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When is the best time to recruit?  Ideally you want to be recruiting when lots of good candidates are available, paying attention and willing to talk to you.  You also want to be recruiting when your competition is NOT actively trying to recruit the same people you are.   So when do you find...

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I just spoke with someone we placed last year.  The good news is that she is happy and thriving, likes the direction of her organization and sees a bright future for herself.  (Yeaa hiring process).  But she also mentioned something you might consider bad news, or even find disturbing.  She said “I don’t know...

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