The True Cost of a Bad Hire! The Hiring Academy has an unwavering dedication to one ultimate goal: ensuring you hire the right person the first time and every time. Developing your own A to Z hiring process while proceeding through The Hiring Academy online courses is pain-free and some have even called [...]
How many of you remember a teacher who deeply affected you or changed your life? Someone you still remember fondly? Or not so?I’ll never forget a particular character forming experience during my 13-year-old Freshman year of Creative Writing Class. I won’t name names, to protect the guilty party! But, if you went to High School during the 80’s in [...]
Trick or treat? That is the question when you make a new hire while crossing your fingers. Oh, the regret of being fooled. It can cost a business thousands of dollars and countless headaches. Believe it or not, some people talk a good game, but don’t have the background, experience or products to support [...]
The NFL has found itself in a predicament that captured an abundance of negative national media attention. Why? Because of some bad hires! Last week I wrote about the rule “be diligent, not desperate” in hiring and this is a perfect case in point. While replacement officials for nationally televised sporting events might get [...]
Imagine you were out on a very first date. It is not likely you would culminate that evening with a marriage proposal, is it? So goes the first interview of a potential candidate for employment. No matter how well it went, there should always be a callback, a second date. This individual you hire [...]
During our economic recovery, companies are expanding and needing to not only hire new employees, but also to hire the best and brightest. Customer experience and service can make or break your business in today’s information age. So the caliber of candidates you interview and hire should be a reflection of you and your [...]
Yesterday my wife and I had a laugh about how when she was a very small child her mom would let her go down, alone, to the corner store to get a quart of milk or carton of eggs — that would never happen nowadays. The world is a changed place for so many [...]
50 First Dates is one of my favorite movies and my wife’s, go figure! Adam Sandler has a way of making a “date-movie” entertaining for dudes too. Imagine you were out on a very first date - or 2 or 3 or even 50 first dates. It is not likely during any of those you [...]
