Hiring and Retaining Top Talent Blog

It might mean the company has to change its culture.
Candidates today are not only seeking compensation in the form of money, but also are interested in non-monetary rewards. Companies are constantly asking us”How do we know they will fit in our culture?” Candidates are always saying “I want to leave my company because of […]

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Stop fishing in such shallow waters
Companies complaint that they can’t find qualified candidates is the biggest issue we regularly hear. This is because most of the time they are fishing for candidates in just 10% of the total candidate pool. Given that, does it surprise you that you can’t find people when you exclude […]

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Hiring is the only process in your company where you accept a 56% failure rate!
When companies hire a six-figure executive, they expect them to “hit the ground running” and produce results quickly. But according to our surveys of more than 20,000 hiring executives over the past fifteen years and a review of published literature […]

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Brad and I have been involved in youth and high school sports for quite some time. I coach a girls frosh-soph basketball team at our local high school. Tonite we played a game where the other team relentlessly pressed us from the beginning of the game. I probably burned 4 of my 5 timeouts in […]

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The Causes Of Hiring Mistakes
In our experience, hiring mistakes are not caused by willful ignorance or negligence. Most often, new executive failure has several interrelated causes.
Inadequate preparation. Rarely had the hiring companies outlined a detailed, measurable definition of “success” that could be used to source, evaluate, and select candidates. Instead, they relied on outdated or insufficient […]

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After 25 years in executive search, over 1000 search assignments, training over 50,000 executives and managers in the steps to hire and retain top talent, we are still astounded by the lack of any systematic process for retaining top talent in most companies.
The traditional model of retention goes something like “You should be happy to […]

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Why do organizations talk about the need to hire top talent, but do nothing revolutionary to improve the process? 
We are continually amazed at the number of companies which give lip service to the concept of hiring talent - yet when you look at the specific strategies, tactics, processes, and methods they employ to do this - it’s the same […]

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The Superbowl provides a great metaphor for thinking about the impact of talent.
Over the years, we’ve worked with thousands of companies in the process of improving hiring top talent and retaining top talent. If there is one great element that outstanding companies possess, and which allows them to dominate their peers - it’s the commitment to […]

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Behavioral Interviewing is Flawed
The concept behind behavioral interviewing is that, past performance is the best indicator of future performance. Our position is that this concept is flawed for two reasons; 1) too much depends on the qualifications of the person interpreting the indicator and 2) it completely ignores the ability to adapt to the new culture, […]

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Why do most companies suffer from poor hiring success?
Studies demonstrate that in most companies, executive and managerial hiring is not much more accurate than 50%. Now imagine the failure rate increased substantially below the managerial level since the rate of sophistication regarding hiring declines quickly below the executive and senior management level.
Why do companies accept what is […]

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