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Casual Articles - Employers are Hiring Good Candidates, Not Good Employees
Whether you are just starting out in a business or a seasoned "professional" you should have a contract when doing business - if not for your own safety, but for the safety of your clients. Not a day goes by that I don't hear horror stories about misunderstandings o
Good Skills
On time for interview
Prepared for interview
Good communicator
Enthusiastic
Great first impression
Aggressive jobseeker
Interested in you
Interested in company
Good follow up
Top employees characteris
Ever wanted to earn cash while doing your favorite hobby, such as scrapbooking? Well, you could! There are many careers available in the scrapbooking industry. If you like creating albums of memories, you can be getting paid for doing it! Think it is too good to be true? Think again! If you are imaginative, you coul
Peter Drucker, one of Americas leading management gurus has examined this and says, "Executives spend more time on managing people and people decisions than on anything else, and they should. No other decisions are so long-lasting in their consequences or so difficult to unmake and yet, by and large, executives make poor promotion and staffing decisions. By all accounts, their batting average is no better than .333. At most one-third of such decisions turn out right; one-third are minimally effective and one-third are outright failures. In no other area of management would we put up with such miserable performance.
One hiring expert reports I see the pattern of poor hiring far more than what would seem logical. In fact I am frequently flabbergasted by the poor hiring practices I have observed. He found some interesting facts that can cause this behavior. Research suggests the answer may be a missed point of focus. We are trying to find and hire top candidates rather than top employees. They are not the same.
In conversations with recruiters and employers across Canada, Tom Brennan compiled this list of the characteristics of top candidates and top employees:
Top candidates characteristics
Good R?sum?
Good Skills
On time for interview
Prepared for interview
Good communicator
Enthusiastic
Great first impression
Aggressive jobseeker
Interested in you
Interested in company
Good follow up
Top employees characterist
As author of a book defending advertising against its many social and economic critics,* here is the one question I am most frequently asked: What about subliminal advertising?, to which I typically respond: What about it? It doesnt exist!Thats the short answer. Some elaboration is required.The t
One hiring expert reports I see the pattern of poor hiring far more than what would seem logical. In fact I am frequently flabbergasted by the poor hiring practices I have observed. He found some interesting facts that can cause this behavior. Research suggests the answer may be a missed point of focus. We are trying to find and hire top candidates rather than top employees. They are not the same.
In conversations with recruiters and employers across Canada, Tom Brennan compiled this list of the characteristics of top candidates and top employees:
Top candidates characteristics
Good R?sum?
Good Skills
On time for interview
Prepared for interview
Good communicator
Enthusiastic
Great first impression
Aggressive jobseeker
Interested in you
Interested in company
Good follow up
Top employees characteris
The Team:Nobody is blessed with ALL the skills it takes to make a successful business. Thats why most businesses have a management team, a creative team, and a technical team. You have to figure out where you fit into that team.If you feel like you are very creative, but dont hav
One hiring expert reports I see the pattern of poor hiring far more than what would seem logical. In fact I am frequently flabbergasted by the poor hiring practices I have observed. He found some interesting facts that can cause this behavior. Research suggests the answer may be a missed point of focus. We are trying to find and hire top candidates rather than top employees. They are not the same.
In conversations with recruiters and employers across Canada, Tom Brennan compiled this list of the characteristics of top candidates and top employees:
Top candidates characteristics
Good R?sum?
Good Skills
On time for interview
Prepared for interview
Good communicator
Enthusiastic
Great first impression
Aggressive jobseeker
Interested in you
Interested in company
Good follow up
Top employees characteris
Job offer negotiation can sometimes extend beyond just the salary. If you have a job offer that you feel could be a bit better and the company won't improve the salary, there might be options available that the company might be willing to improve upon.Often you might be able to get a potential employer to imp
In conversations with recruiters and employers across Canada, Tom Brennan compiled this list of the characteristics of top candidates and top employees:
Top candidates characteristics
Good R?sum?
Good Skills
On time for interview
Prepared for interview
Good communicator
Enthusiastic
Great first impression
Aggressive jobseeker
Interested in you
Interested in company
Good follow up
Top employees characteris
Big and Yellow 'M' reminds you McDonalds... 'DELL' with oblique E reminds you famous 'Dell' computers...No matter somebody is a beginner or a well established business person, they need to make their products familiar to the people. With so many products and services in the marketplace, what makes your produc
Good Skills
On time for interview
Prepared for interview
Good communicator
Enthusiastic
Great first impression
Aggressive jobseeker
Interested in you
Interested in company
Good follow up
Top employees characteristics
Highly motivated to work
Competent
Do More than required
Do not make excuses
Anticipate problems
Solve problems
Take initiative
Learn quickly
Committed
Focused
Consistent
Poised and confident
Strong team player
Clearly the criteria of a top candidate are different from a top employee. While both lists are critical, an employer needs an objective tool to bridge the gap and provide information to select the best employee. That tool is a validated pre employment employee assessment, modeled off their top performers. This will help you hire the best employees who fit the job as compared to hiring the best candidates.
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