SmartHire - Better Hiring Tips
March, 2009
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How strong is your current talent pool?  Your answer will, ultimately, determine your company's long-term success as it has been proven that better talent creates enormous value.  Your human capital has significant strategic importance to your success.

Without a corporate commitment to develop a talent mindset - recruiting becomes an activity - attrition increases - performance suffers.  Studies conducted by McKinsey & Company in 1997 and 2000 have proven, analytically, that better talent leads to better performance.

Your talent pool's strength is directly related to the performance of your company. 

I've recently read a number of blogs refuting the idea of a war for talent.  They are stating that job loss and organizational failure can be dismissed as just another casualty of the war and, as a result, they hate the war analogy.  Regardless though, whether it's a war or a skirmish, choosing wisely when you hire directly relates to your performance.
This Quarter's Contributing Author:
Adam Robinson


Adam RobinsonAbout the Author

The Case for Conducting Credit & Background Checks

Let's say you've just hired a Controller for your business.
You're giving this person responsibility over your company's entire financial operation - cash management, banking, client receivables...the whole enchilada.  You're excited, because you're finally freeing yourself up to focus on the things that you should be focusing on in order to grow your business.
 
The problem is, your new controller is facing personal bankruptcy... (Full Article)


Top Tips for Conducting Great Reference Checks

Fewer than 10% of managers conduct their own reference checks. When you leave reference checking in the hands of someone else, you're really rolling the dice with your new hire. Worst of all is the hiring manager who neither conducts references themselves, nor gets a third party to conduct references for them.

Would you ever consider forking over $400,000 for a house based entirely on what the selling agent told you? ... (Full Article)

 
Interesting Tidbits
Blogs and Reference Libraries

Talent Process Audit

The average company doesn't make talent a priority.   They may have good people, good performance and good growth prospects.  They may know intuitively that talent will be a key driver of success in their future but their existing talent processes are weak or nonexistent.

Grasslands Group of Companies Inc. is pleased to offer a "Talent Process Audit" to determine your current strategy and to identify the gaps.  Companies have a tendency to look at HR functions and talent processes as exercises with little value.  Allow us to identify prerequisites to attracting and retaining a good talent pool.

Call 888.773.7884 today for more information and to schedule your audit. 
Join us next month as we provide additional interesting articles, blogs, reference libraries from professionals in the world of work.

 
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Blair Clark
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Quote of the Month:

"People in the company are almost never fired ... they are encouraged to retire early or are eased aside into hollow, insignificant positions with fake functions and no authority where they are sheepish and unhappy for as long as they remain."

Joseph Heller (1923 - 99) U.S. novelist and satirist