SmartHire Announces
Our new website has been in operation a full month! Time has sure flown by. I trust you've all had a great summer.
Since our launch, we've seen a steady increase in the number of registrants per day and, while we're just in beta stage - we are pleased with the return.
Any current vacant career opportunities within your firm? Would you like a representative to go to Eastern Canada on your behalf? Let us represent your firm at the National Job Fair next month in Toronto. The east is moving west. Special marketing packages are available - call 1-888-773-7884 or email Blair today for more information.!
Allow us to assist your current HR team!
Dona
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Spiraling Costs of Average
Smart hiring will
impact positively on
your organization's bottom line performance-but how do you prove it to
stakeholders? Most companies can tell you the cost of a bad
hire they terminated on the 89th day, but what they should be
analyzing is the cost of an "average" hire they've retained for two
years.
Hypothetically,
if your company has a turnover of 20% per year and all of your new hires are
mediocre-to-average, it will only take 5 years for your entire entire workforce
to be average. The cost of a "really bad hire" for a software
engineer can exceed a million dollars, for a CEO it could be as much as $1.4
Billion (Ask Quaker Oats for example!).
If
you don't recruit and select great people the first time, you won't have great
employees. After all, great ideas and products come from people not from
equipment, buildings, or capital. No one
purposely hires an average applicant but weak organizational recruitment
efforts and less than stellar selection tools will inevitably result in the
hiring of average employees. Everyone hires some mediocre-to-average employees
but poor recruitment control systems will result in a higher proportion of
"average" hires than with the SmartHire system.
What are the "business" impacts of hiring average people?
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Employee Referral Program: Get Your Best to Recommend the Rest
Effective organizations look at benchmarking as a tool to force
an audit of their own practices
article by Dr. John Sullivan and
Master Burnett
As one
of the most - if not the most - vocal proponents of employee
referral programs, we are constantly monitoring what's going on in leading
organizations, what characteristics drive program success, what barriers limit
excellence, and what various programs are achieving.
Our
vantage point is a privileged one, one we didn't fully understand until we
started to look into what benchmarking research actually existed on the topic.
Short of whether or not an organization has a program that offers cash
incentives and the value of those incentives, very little research exists.
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RPO Service Spotlight!
Career Fit Analysis
Historically, SmartHire knows that it is extremely important to allow the candidate to uniformly evaluate their needs in terms of the community, the corporate culture, and the skill sets.
SmartHire Career Fit service evaluates the best match or "fit":
a candidate's resume may incorporate all the qualifications required
by the position but without taking into account the community "fit",
the corporate culture "fit", or the skill set "fit" - we may have a lose-lose.
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SmartHire weighs and measures each of these fits relative to the employment opportunity being offered. This is done to ensure a balanced, objective view of candidates who are seriously considering your opportunity.
SmartHire uses an assigned scoring matrix for each short-listed candidate since this "fit" is a very critical component of successful talent management.
For more information, call Blair at 1-888-773-7884 or email blair@smarthire.ca.
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Next Newsletter
The next issue of SmartHire® Talent Strategies will include:
"Catch Average Performers"
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SmartHire is a registered trademark of Grasslands Group of Companies.
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It's here!...
We've promised for months!
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Recruitment Cost Calculator
Email Dona today to request your copy. Calculate the REAL cost of hire.
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National Job Fair - Toronto 
Our representatives are attending the 13th edition of The
National Job Fair & Training Expo® on September 30 and October 1,
2008, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (North Building,
Exhibition Hall C, 255 Front Street West). Booth 120!
Would you like us to represent YOUR company there? Our intention is to represent our clients and to pre-qualify workseekers based on identified criteria.
Various marketing packages are available. Allow us to market your firm with job postings, handouts, posters,
and onsite/telephone interviews!
The National Job Fair is simply Canada's #1
job/career fair and Ontario's leading recruitment event open to the
general public.
Get
a jump on the competition. Over 10,000 workseekers are expected over
the two-day event. Allow us to market your business effectively!
Call Blair @ 1-888-773-7884 or email for more information on our packages and marketing plans.
Dona
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SmartHire
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