2020 Q2 Apartment Jobs Snapshot
On behalf of the National Apartment Association (NAA), I want to say THANK YOU! The emergence of COVID-19 this spring and the impact on the rental housing industry is something none of us have been through. New challenges and new protocols have become the norm. While the crisis is not yet over, NAA working with […]
Making Your Workplace Hygienic for Covid-19
However, with the threat of coronavirus and a second wave very much in the background, every place of interest will require formal procedures to maintain cleanliness and prevent further spreading of the toxic virus. We speak to hygiene specialists, Trovex to get an insight into how to make a workplace or commercial building more hygienic. […]
Liars And Interviewing
It has been said of some salespeople that you can easily spot when they’re lying–their lips are moving. Salespeople aren’t the only ones giving lip service to the truth. Job interviews are frequently built on one or more lies. The lying is happening on both sides of the table. Candidates misrepresent their abilities. Companies overstate […]
Preventing Fraudulent Hires: Poor Decisions Can Be Costly
Thoroughly vetting candidates utilizing background and reference checks can seem like an upfront investment in resources, but it is well spent to help avoid potential fraud and other serious problems in the future. September economic reports indicated that we are amid the lowest unemployment rates seen since December 1969, which in turn could potentially create […]
Recruiting for an Imperfect Organization
Here’s the truism that shapes our job as recruiters: The best talent has options. They are so good at what they do or their skills are so rare, they have their pick of employers. That fact of life creates a dilemma for many of us in recruiting. How do we attract people who are superstars […]
The Uncertainty Factor
Even top performers are worried these days. Thanks to the drumbeat of news stories about business miscalculations, facility relocations, and corporate mergers and acquisitions – all of which produce layoffs – they too fear they will end up out on the bricks. As a result, uncertainty has now become as important a recruiting factor as […]
Red Shirt Relationships
The art of social recruiting involves the development of two kinds of candidate relationships. The first – blink relationships – establish trust and familiarity in the blink of an eye. They are the foundation for success in filling current openings. (They were discussed in an earlier column.) The second – red shirt relationships – build […]
What is Talent Anyway?
Every recruiter on the planet knows that we’re waging a War for Talent. We use the term so frequently, it’s become a part of our professional jargon. But what is talent? We all probably have at least a subliminal definition of the word, but more often than not, those definitions vary widely even within the […]
Job Postings That Seduce Top Talent
Why are these rules so important? Because passive, high caliber candidates are different from everyone else in the workforce. They are almost always employed. In order to recruit them, therefore, you have to convince them to do the one thing we humans most hate to do: change. Your ad has to convince them to go […]
Truth, Lies and Resumes
Companies are screening more closely than ever before. Getting caught in a lie could raise enough questions about your character to cost you the job. When searching for a job, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. You can stutter during a cold call, get lost on the way to the interview […]
