Make the most of your fall hiring season Think about it â you have 90 days to get your 2014 hiring done before we enter the holiday season. Average time to hire is 60 days â the bottom line â you donât have a lot of time!  Letâs talk about how to make the most…
How to figure out if this might be a good move for you Iâve had more than a few discussions, debates and coaching calls with candidates who think that they need to leave their Fortune 500 director level position to jump onto the startup bandwagon â after all, startups are new and trendy, right? OK,…
How to accomplish a productive pivot One of the recurring questions I get when I am talking to working professionals is, âHow do I navigate a career change?â Great Question! Letâs say youâve been travelling a career path for a few years and youâve come to a point where you arenât having fun, arenât fulfilled,…
Retention starts before their first day! An effective onboarding program can have a significant impact on your ability to retain great people, help them get up to speed quickly and contribute productively â sooner. The key is to make each new team member feel important and help remove those new job jitters as quickly as…
When is it ok to talk about salary and benefits? I was talking with the team today and we recently had several candidates stumble over the salary/benefit/flex time questions so we thought this might be a good subject for this monthâs article. Hereâs the deal â unless you are independently wealthy and a workaholic, you can expect a…
Unless you’ve been underground for the past few months you’ve probably noticed that businesses are feeling more optimistic about the economy lately. This is especially true in the Rocky Mountain Region. There is a significant uptick in hiring happening in just the last few weeks. This activity is also being felt by your employees –…
Get yourself out of neutral I just finished an article for hiring managers on tuning up their teams. I talked about how to introduce change as a way to increase performance, service or efficiencies â you know, the stuff that hiring managers care about. It occurred to me that professionals who are rollinâ along in…
Get out of neutral Last month we talked about how your companyâs reputation has an impact on the candidate profiles that you attract. Thatâs great if you are happy with the level at which your team is performing, the personality that emanates from your internal community and the people in that community. But what if you want to initiate a change? …
The law of (candidate) attraction I get a lot of comments from hiring managers that they just canât seem to attract the right people to their open positions. The perception is that there isnât good talent out there and that is one of the primary challenges affecting company growth. While I agree that we need to continue to promote education…
New Year career tune-up tips The New Year is a great time to review the work youâve done and set goals for the work you want to do. In this case Iâm not talking about performance at work, but rather your career as a whole. There are some traditions you can put in place to help guide you…