A good recruiting agency will partner with the hiring manager and will only submit great quality candidates – every single time. A great agency works with their client to define an overall strategy, and keeps them from getting 25,000 candidates to sift through to begin with.

http://www.clinical-cra.com/clinical-recruitment-recruit-hire-best-checklist-success/

So I get it and agree that too many choices can definitely be bad. But I also wonder how many recruiters submit crapola candidates and just hope something sticks? I have seen this happen over and over and I wonder if Hiring Managers know how to fire their recruiters? http://www.clinicalstaffingreviews.com/why-you-should-fire-your-recruiter/

Out with the bad, in with the good.

Because I could make a lot more money doing so! (An employer might seriously consider a raise/bonus at the successful completion of training, particularly if that wasn’t a general policy.) That’s why if you want to keep people around, you need to treat them well, compensate them decently, and if necessary give the multi-year, guaranteed raise/bonus, no-lay-off-without cause” employment contracts.

Cheers,

Keith “Loyalty=Cashflow” Halperin

This has to be one of the worst justifications ever. If you honestly believe that investing in an employee will make them leave your company, you need to take a hard look at your retention and compensation policies.

Why on earth would I rush off to another company after spending a year learning about the company who trained me? Just to start all over as the “new person”?

I believe the challenge exists that after all that training the employer refuses to recognize it and provide increased duties, position and compensation. Why did you train a new employee and then leave them with a trainee’s duties and salary? After such treatment, then and only then does the employee look for greener pastures.

Cheers,
Keith

We’ll never get rid of the JD, but we can, and must get the information necessary to effectively source the right candidates.

There’s my two cents. And hats off to Ryder for sparking such a robust conversation!
Only the best,
Ron

Cheers,
Keith

Cheers,
Keith

You get the picture here……..wouldn’t be so bad if these reasons were identified at first interview instead of last.

Anyone else got a list of the Top Ridiculous Reasons for Rejecting a candidate?

He gets emails from venture capitalists all the time.
Most of them he hits “delete” on.
(See how easy that is?)

He stopped by on Monday and mentioned the latest one to me.
He said it actually made some sense.
I said why don’t you call the guy?

He said, “Well we don’t fit EVERYTHING he wants.”

Boss me I said, “What does he want? Let me see.”
He pulled the email up on his phone.”

Summary of Key Investment Criteria
Fragmented and growing industries
Strong leaders that share our goals and values or owners looking to exit the business
Growing, high-margin service businesses with $2-30M in revenue and $500K-$4M of pre-tax earnings/EBITDA
Recurring or highly repeating revenues with high levels of customer retention
No significant customer concentration

He asked me what the last meant. I said it means no one customer represents a great part of your business thereby threatening the business if the customer leaves.

He said, “Oh.”

I said, “What here doesn’t fit you?”

He said we’re not at $2m – we’re almost there. We will be by mid year, I’m sure.”

I said, “Are you nuts? Call the guy. Don’t let some packaged “requirements” list stop you. When someone sets out to buy a business they have a “wish-list” a mile long. What they get many times doesn’t fill even half of them!”

“Okay,” he said grumpily. Maybe I’ll call the guy…”

I’ll let you all know what happens next.

My point here in telling the story is that so many opportunities get missed because people pay TOO CLOSE attention to some ill-formed capricious idea that came out of some misanthropic mission of what a perfect world looks like.

I can understand doctors paying close attention to what is being said. Engineers too – I get that but will somebody please stand up and tell them to throw some mud up on the barn wall.

SOME of it is bound to stick.