Hiring Managers Dont Try to Find the Perfect Employee!

Hiring Managers Dont Try to Find the Perfect Employee! Too often hiring managers spend months attempting to find the perfect employee, which is next to impossible. Instead, they should be focusing on finding people who will do both a good job and work well inside of their businesses. Unfortunately, most businesses approach hiring the wrong way and are either left with a lot of vacancies or employees that just don’t fit in. The worst thing that employers can do is just leave a job opening unfilled while hoping to one day find the perfect person to fill it. In reality, the perfect candidate that they are looking for is either already working somewhere else or just doesnt exist! The reality is that the very best of the best find jobs in no time, so they arent the type who will be going on many interviews. They get the jobs that they want and then dozens or even hundreds of other businesses are left out in the cold. Well, not really because the fact is that there are plenty of people who can do the job well and often fit in with the company better. Hiring managers also have a budget to work with, which means that the perfect candidates are often not going to agree to the terms anyway. This doesnt mean that businesses have to hire less-than-adequate employees; they just have to be realistic when they start their searches. If you are on the hunt for a great employee, there are steps that you can take to make sure that recruiting and hiring is done at a top level. Below are some of the things you can do to make sure that you are getting the most out of the hiring process: Develop a hiring strategy: It doesnt matter if you have all of your jobs filled right now or not, you have to know exactly how you are going to go about finding future employees now if you want the process to go smoothly. The tops businesses always know how they are going to seek out candidates, so you have to have a plan of your own for when the time comes. The worst thing you can do is try to just wing it when you are desperate for new staff. Put more emphasis on training: By training employees the right way, you dont have to worry as much about recruiting future candidates because you will be able to retain more of your staff. Employees are happier at their jobs when they fully understand what they are supposed to do and how they can help the company. When it comes to training recruiters, they will know what they need to be looking for, so there arent too many wasted hours searching for people who wouldnt fit in well anyway. Everyone in the company, new and old, should know what the goals for the business are so each department can work together and really feel like they are a team. Dont worry about cost: If you want to find great employees without having to find the perfect one, you have to be willing to pay whatever it costs to get your ad out there in the world. To get noticed by candidates, they will need to find you, so pay multiple recruiters if you have to so they can spread the word about your job openings. This will both speed up the process and up your chances of finding fantastic candidates. If you do have a low budget, do all you can with the money that you do have available to give yourself the best shot at finding great people to work with you. Recruiting and hiring is a major part of every business, so be sure that you do have funds to work with in this area. Recruiters need to do more: Recruiters are also known as head hunters because they would go out and find new employees like their lives depended on it. That has changed pretty much in all industries in recent years, but you need to bring it back into your business. Recruiters need to be on every social network putting up ads and making sure that the right types of people are looking at them. They also need to feel the pressure that you want the right person for the job found and you want them quickly. Know the job market: One of the worst things businesses can do is throw up job ads all over the place without knowing how much interest there is at the present moment. It should be a team effort to find out what the interest is right now so you know how many man hours should be going into the search. Recruiters and hiring managers need to always be on the same page so that there is an understanding of what can and cant be done. Doing the things above will give you a much better shot at finding new employees that will do a great job for you even though they might not have been the “perfect” candidate. Author: Ronald Alexander is a passionate writer and avid blogger currently associated with Forsyth.co.uk, which provides business services in Manchester.

Great Tips for Socializing Online

Great Tips for Socializing Online I am one to admit, I get the need to do some serious “me-time” at home once in a while, but at the same time wouldn’t hate a bit of company. For days that you feel like staying in without feeling alone, thank God for the internet. With the rise of technology comes the advantage of communicating with people more conveniently. Socializing online is not just a “thing” anymore it is part of our daily lives. This is why it is important to understand and remember these three crucial tips in socializing online. Want to Meet New People? Try Going By Your Interests You can meet many different people from all walks of life through the internet, the most obvious ones are social or matching sites and chat rooms. My suggestion is to skip the general social matching sites if you want to meet people online, you have to think of it in the real world sense and start with your interests. Find an interactive website that give you information and activities on what you like to do, so you can find people with the same interests, without the lengthy and detailed profiles to fill up. Sharing with Your Circle? Don’t Get Too Comfortable. Socializing with people you already know or are acquainted with may make you too comfortable for your own good.  Just as you should think before you speak, always remember that there are consequences to the things you post online, as they will always be a representation of you and can remain on the internet for years. Always review the privacy setting and security terms of all your online portals. Do not use the same password for all sites, and if you will, make sure to change all of them regularly. Even photos shared with close family and friends can get out to the public, so make sure that you trust the people you want to bring into the discussion. Forming Bonds? How to Get Personal. It is inevitable to form bonds and relationships in an environment that banks on communication. When you are comfortable enough to really share your life’s stories and details with someone, try to do it in a more direct and personal manner. If it’s people you already know it is best to say it in a phone call instead of writing it on their wall. If you’re ready to meet real life or internet acquantances, or reconnect with old friends suggest to meet in a public place and have a quick catch up instead. Create a safe environment. First meetings should be short, done in a public place, at a busy time of the day. Make sure someone else knows where you’re going and who you will be meeting. If any form of suspicion of fraud arises, even at the slightest, walk away and report this to the website where you are interacting. Whether it is a a new acquaintance, an long trusted friend, or somebody you barely know, you must remember that your online presence is an identity that is not separate from your real world self. Because socializing online has gotten so casual and routine to our lives, this is something that a lot of people forget when socializing online, which can be dangerous.  This is why you need to make sure that you approach it with smarts and caution at all times.

Customer Service or No Customers.

Customer Service or No Customers. I’ve been doing research on different cars lately as I’m passively considering embarking on my first adult car purchase.   After many searches, I finally found an almost new Nissan Murano with low mileage and a low price- a rare combination for the Murano.     I was so excited about the possibility  that this bargain was  legit.   Plus I had been staring at the cute pictures and it was distracting me from work, so I inquired online and got a call back from the dealership within 5 or 10 minutes.   Disclaimer: the dealership listing the vehicle was NOT a Nissan dealership.   My return call was from a woman we will call Jasmine.   She quickly asked when I would be in to see the car.   I said, “Not today.   I was hoping to get some more information before I came in since your dealership isn’t super close to where I live.”     Here is how the conversation continued:   Nicole: I’ve never bought a Nissan before.   What is the warranty like on this car?   How many miles and what is included? Jasmine:   Uhhh…well I don’t know. Nicole: Would I have to get my car serviced at Nissan dealers only? Jasmine: Well, you see I don’t really know that.   I mean probably here but maybe not. Nicole: Ok.   Are there any deals on financing right now?   I heard a lot of places are offering 0% financing on new cars right now. Jasmine: Oh I don’t know about that.   You will find out about that when you buy the car and talk to the finance department. Nicole: Ok, well that’s pretty important to know before I can consider buying the car.   Hmmm.   Well, how about trade-ins?   I have a car I would consider trading in, can I get some basic info on this process. Jasmine: (Long Pause) Nicole:   You know maybe I should speak to someone else who may have more information for me?   You get the idea.   This experience made me crabby and disappointed.   I’m one of those people that like ALL the information and I’m a sucker for great customer service.   From there I make my decision quickly.   Before this terrible customer service experience, I was envisioning myself driving the car off the lot within the next few days.   Now, I’m making SURE I do not use this dealership for my first car purchase.   Times are tight, which means that no one can afford to miss out on a new customer.     For Business Owners and Managers:   Are you training your employees and making sure they understand your customer service standards?   Do your employees answer the phone with a positive sounding voice or do they sound like they are ready to get in an argument with your prospect or client? Have you created a short training packet or cheat sheet that your employees can use for tough or unusual questions? Have you communicated to your employees how important every single client is for the success of their job and your business?   For Any Employee Who Deals with Other People: Please don’t sound like you hate your life when you answer the phone. If you don’t know something, it’s ok with me.   Please be honest.   Don’t ramble on or make up answers.   Just let me know that you will follow up with me when you find out, or transfer my call to someone who can help me. Please call me back when you say you will. Make sure I have your contact information.   If I don’t know your name and phone number, how can we continue the transaction? Ask me questions about why I’m calling then listen to what I say instead of just hard selling me with no knowledge of my full situation.

Think Like a High Earner

Think Like a High Earner Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'gSO07OhARgJRcPqF2LOy7w',sig:'5So8E8RnLY3PkO_5iCRtbbzmG-OJxdZXWue8_2aGptk=',w:'507px',h:'338px',items:'77146863',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })}); Liz Ryan is CEO/founder of Human Workplace and author of  Reinvention Roadmap. Her writing is dedicated to helping job seekers understand and take charge of the hiring process and how they view their workplace.  One of her recent columns was about how an interview for a six-figure job should differ from interviews earlier in your career. Ryan says you should understand that companies expect someone earning that salary to understand his/her own worth. “Companies dont throw around those sums lightly. They need someone who knows what they can bring to the company, so dont shoot yourself in the foot by going to the interviewer with an eager-beaver Look how well I can dance and prance for you! attitude.” People who earn six-figure salaries usually have highly specialized skills requiring extensive education (think physician, attorney, or pharmacist) or have in-demand skills that are rare in the marketplace (software developer, executive chef, or designer.) In a corporate role, most high-paid executives have a direct and vital influence on the company’s performance. They’re often responsible for company strategy or generating revenue. Ryan writes that companies who are seeking someone at this level should come in with more than an impressive resume; they should also have a point of view about their function. They understand their unique skill set, and know that they can command top dollar for what they do. “A six-figure job interview is a conversation between equals. If it doesnt feel that way, dont take the job.” It should come as no surprise that mindset is important to earning a high salary. A study published in the Journal of Financial Planning found that locus of control has been linked to income. The authors defined locus of control as “the extent to which someone sees their life outcomes as being determined by their actions. Individuals with an internal locus of control believe that their actions control life outcomes, while individuals with an external locus of control feel that their life outcomes are unrelated to their behaviors, unpredictable, under the control of others, or the result of chance or luck.” Earners with internal locus of control tended to earn more than those who believed that control for their careers lay outside their control. Barbara Stanny, author of Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life, says that under-earners are often vague about money issues, or ambivalent about earning high salaries.  Her under earner’s quiz includes self-evaluation statements such as “I often give away my services (volunteering, working more hours than I’m actually paid)”, “It’s so hard to ask for a raise (or raise fees) that I just don’t do it,” and “Recognition and praise are more important to me than money.” In fact, she writes in her book that when her agent approached her with the idea for Six Figure Women, she initially rejected the idea. “I pictured those high-earning woman as cold, aloof, tough, hard driving and designer-dressed people I could never relate to, leagues above me.” Then it struck her â€" “What was I telling myself? Could this be why I never earned much money?  How could I let myself earn big bucks if I held such a disparaging view of those who were doing it?” Once you admit you have a problem, you can get help. Believe it or not, there’s an organization called Under Earners Anonymous dedicated to helping members work toward its key values: Abundance, Prosperity, Freedom and Serenity. The organization’s website lists the symptoms of under earning, which include working too long and too hard on projects that won’t increase your income, rejecting choices or ideas that will increase your income, continually feeling the need to re-prove your value in the marketplace instead of feeling empowered to command high fees or salary, and compulsively volunteering or giving away your services instead of charging for them. Under Earners Anonymous holds meetings in New York City, but the site offers online tools for defining a vision and setting goals, evaluating how you send your time, and creating an action plan, with or without an accountability “sponsor.” Find more at underearnersanonymous.org.

Are You a Personal Brand Cheater - Executive Career Brandâ„¢

Are You a Personal Brand Cheater Personal branding has certainly become an accepted, and  even expected, part of executive job search. But I see too many people misunderstanding and misusing branding in ways that may sabotage their chances of landing the jobs they want. I break the personal brand cheaters into two groups: 1. The deceitful They boast, in brand messaging that is not authentically them.  Its about who they strive to be or how they want to be perceived, so the information is not, shall we say, accurate. They over-inflate, and are imprecise about who they are and what they have to offer. To be fair, these people probably haven’t done any branding work, so they don’t get it. Or they’re just poor writers, and should probably work with a professional. 2. The lazy thieves They see someone else’s brand messaging, perhaps on a profile, that kind of sounds like them and is written well, so they borrow it for their own profile or resume or other career marketing communications. It’s so much easier than doing the work themselves. I wrote about this practice in my post, What’s Wrong with Copying an Executive Brand Resume Sample? I mentioned one client who initially sent me the resume he’d written, that needed work. The brand statement he used was vaguely familiar. Sure enough, it came straight from one of the resume samples on my blogsite. If you’re either type of cheater, you face some problems: â€" You’ll have to live up to any claims you make and deliver on the promise of value in your messaging.  Be very careful about how you present and represent yourself â€"  on paper, online and in person. â€" Circumventing the personal branding process â€"  not learning how your unique value proposition aligns with your target companies’ needs â€"  leaves you at a disadvantage as you move through the job search process. You won’t be as well prepared to  speak about and promote  yourself when networking and in job interviews. â€" Doing the branding work is energizing. You’ll be empowered by what differentiates you from your job-seeking competitors, and what you have to offer that no one else does. And your brand messaging could be even better than you expected, and more compelling than the nifty phrases you lifted from someone else. â€" Stealing content violates copyright law. Anything published online is automatically protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Related posts: 10 Steps to an Authentic, Magnetic Personal Brand What Personal Branding is NOT 10 Things to Love About Your Executive Brand 00 0

You Dont Have to Choose Just One Career

You Don’t Have to Choose Just One Career Do you ever feel that everyone else has a career plan except you? Do you worry that you dont feel a strong calling toward any one profession? Not to worry. The good news is, you are not alone. There are many people who say yes to those two questions. In fact, Barbara Sher in her Book I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was calls these individuals scanners. Scanners have multiple talents and can adjust to many situations. However, scanners typically don’t want to settle on only doing one thing and they don’t have to! Sher has an exercise in her book that can be helpful for scanners: If you had 10 lives, instead of one what would those ten lives be? (examples: a photographer, DJ, a world traveler, a chef, a pilot). Then she asks the individual to list out the following: which life you can devote yourself to this year which life you can do after life #1 is complete which life you can do for 20 minutes each day which lives you can do on the weekend which lives you can do every once in a while This exercise can help individuals understand that you do not have to make one choice for a career. You can write an article for a magazine as a freelancer and spend time on the weekends as a photographer even though your 9-5 job is one as a graphic designer. You can have more than one life at a time. It doesn’t have to be an ‘either-or’ situation. Think about how your interests can fit into your life without them needing to fall into an all-or-nothing or now-or-nothing framework. This exercise is useful for many individuals who have diverse interests, not just scanners. Even if you enjoy your day job, think about ways you can incorporate your interests into a larger part of your life. You don’t have to wait until retirement to become a clothing designer. Instead think about what you can do each day for 20 minutes that allows you to incorporate that interest more fully in your life now. Incorporating your interests into your life is easier if you can break them into small steps. Then they don’t seem so overwhelming or impossible to do.

The Best Resume Writing Service Review

The Best Resume Writing Service ReviewIf you are thinking of writing a resume for your upcoming job interview, it is best to have the best resume writing service review on hand. You can compare the various services offered by different companies so that you can get the best suited one. Here are some things to consider before you hire a company to write your resume.First, if you are a newcomer to the job market, do not hire a company to do the job for you. Do not send them an incomplete resume as this will only serve to make them look unprofessional. If they don't know what you have accomplished in the past, how can they give you a more appropriate resume for your needs? You would want to be able to review your own resume and make a decision about whether or not you want to hire a resume writing service to do the job for you.Second, do not go with an online or off-site resume writing service. You need to have the best resume writing service review so that you know what is appropriate and what is not. Make sure that they have at least one hundred percent of their work published in a major publication. This gives them credibility as well as they will have a larger pool of clients. You need to look at their quality, and ask them to provide proof for their work.Third, never write a service out of the box. Ask them questions about their approach to resume writing, what their process is, etc. For example, a company that charges an arm and a leg would not work for your needs as a newbie, and would simply be difficult to work with.Fourth, be wary of hiring a service that charges you a fee before reviewing your resume. This means that they are out to rip you off. While it may cost them a few bucks, it is not worth it. You need to know that they are going to give you the best possible results so that you can get a good deal.Fifth, be wary of any service that asks you to pay before they review your resume. This is simply an attempt to get you to pay up front. You can do th is by asking them for proof of work done or even ask them to get a sample for you to read over. Ask for proof of any testimonials they may have done for you. This helps you to be able to see the results before signing any documents.Sixth, remember that you need to be looking at your resume from several angles. This means that you need to look at the cover letter as well as the summary. Check to see if they include any sample letter templates that you can use to follow to make your own unique and professional resume. Remember that you want to feel comfortable when reviewing your resume, and in particular the resume of the person interviewing you.Make sure that you don't just look at your resume and pass it along to your next employer without doing your research first. It is a good idea to at least have the best resume writing service review in hand to get a better understanding of what is acceptable and what isn't.