January 2008
SmartHire® Talent Strategies
Planning Your Personnel Requirements for 2009
No, I did not type 2009 in error!
 
 
In today's competitive talent market, organizations that successfully compete for talent are planning their personnel requirements far into their future -

I am a business owner, and an executive recruiter who has facilitated more than 3000 hires, and as a business owner I know that if the "right" person walks in the door - I must make a fast decision about hiring them. 
 
So I use the SmartHire® process and I hire them immediately - if they "fit".

As a business owner (with staff in three provinces), I also recognize that the best talent is talent that is currently employed in other businesses.  However, if the talent in other businesses are passively seeking better opportunities - so is the talent in my business!

"The greatest competition in the marketplace today
is the competition for customers and the competition for talent."
(Jo Owens)

This gives me two options for personnel: coaching and recruiting


Businesses that do not change their recruiting strategies to compete successfully in the talent marketplace are limiting the growth of their business for years forward.
 
Grasslands Group of Companies announces
 
New Job Site in 2008 hand point

February 2008 - The prework has been done, the designing has begun!  Watch for a BRAND NEW concept for linking talent to opportunities online.


New concept, new opportunities, new look....
 
Talent Marketplace

Would you agree that your clients behave differently now than they did five years ago?


I am confident that your organization made the necessary adjustments to meet the changing needs of your consumers as quickly and efficiently as possible - that's why your company is in business today.


Although you responded to the needs of your consumers - are you responding as actively to the increasing competition for personnel?

 

SmartHire fills the gap:

Grasslands Recruitment Specialists, SmartHire's sister company, has been in the Executive Recruiting business since 1993 - so we understand how labour intensive it is to write and post ads, plus position those ads in the right sourcing mediums. 


Have you spent time designing, posting and positioning ads with few or no results?

 

We know and understand mid-western Canada - better than anyone - from a personnel sourcing perspective - we know where to find the talent that your organization is seeking.


Can you up load www.SmartHire.ca or www.grasslandsgroup.com/employers right now?

 
Talent Statistics


The first thing I'd like to show you on the site is the Workers' Statistics - you'll see in the workers' statistics a snapshot of the current candidates that are in our database today -

 

You will see that currently 61% of the work-seekers in our database reside in Saskatchewan and Alberta - you will also see that more than 50% of the people in the database are willing to re-locate to locations in western Canada. 

 

As an example, you will see that 20% of the database is from Ontario - but that only 17% want to re-locate from Ontario.

 

As you know, the biggest frustration with job sites is being part of a database of inactive work-seekers

 

We cull our database regularly every 6 - 12 months -

The talent in our database is active.


Work-Seeker Statistics

 

 
Our Guarantee

SmartHire® is a job site like none other -

  • it is a site with staff that works behind the scenes to source your talent
  • it strategically positions your opportunities in the talent marketplace giving this site a better conversion rate than the large national job sites

SmartHire® - linking opportunity with talent! 

Go to www.SmartHire.ca or www.grasslandsgroup.com

and register your company today.

 
SmartHire® is a registered trademark of Grasslands Group of Companies
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2009 Personnel Planning Survey

Watch for results in the next issue of SmartHire® Talent Strategies!
Posting Offer
Try Us Out!

Purchase postings individually or receive premium pricing on the 10 or 25 packs.

Your "best value" is the 10 pack - so try www.smarthire.ca out!

You and I both know you won't be able to use SmartHire 100% of the time so.......

If you purchase before January 31, 2008, I will send you a copy of our World of Work Sourcing Tips for you to use for your other searches.

Contact our office and speak to Dona to setup a webinar - she'll show you how to manage the site, place your order, and how to create intrigue in your ads.

She is booking into late January now.

Why contact Dona?

You want candidates not applicants don't you?

Call NOW

1-888-778-0570 or email dona@smarthire.ca
 
Coaching Tip

To make sure I understand the cognitive abilities and measure the talent within my working environment - I use SmartHire and Prevue Assessment Tools

I know they work - I use them - as do thousands of top businesses.

The following link will give you an overview why:
Essential Strategies to Hiring, Promoting, and Retaining

 

Go to www.SmartHire.ca or www.grasslandsgroup.com  and register your company today to take advantage of these tools.

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"Use A Job Site - Outpace the Competition for Talent"
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Blair Clark
President