Despite persistently high unemployment rates, businesses across the country complain they can’t find the people they want for their open positions. Part of the problem is that the best candidates either don’t know anything about their companies or what they do know is too negative...
Guest post by Brad Remillard On December 19, executive recruiter Brad Remillard presented “Advanced Interviewing: Eliminate Embellishment and Exaggeration,” the latest in our ongoing Catapult Groups Webinar Series. Here are highlights from the presentation. You can listen to Brad’s presentation in its entirety here. Most job candidates...
Guest post by Brad Remillard The next in our Catapult Groups Webinar Series, set for December 19, features executive recruiter Brad Remillard, co-founder of IMPACT Hiring Solutions. Brad will discuss “Advanced Interviewing: Eliminate Embellishment and Exaggeration.” Here, he shares his insights here on whether it makes...
Guest post by Brad Remillard Next up in the Catapult Groups Webinar Series is “Advanced Interviewing: Eliminate Embellishment and Exaggeration” on December 19th, presented by executive recruiter Brad Remillard. Together with partner Barry Deutsch, Brad founded IMPACT Hiring Solutions in 2004, focusing on executive search and...
Guest post by Doug Beckley, Group Leader for Catapult Groups As a Catapult Group Leader and management consultant, a major focus of my work is helping business leaders get serious when selecting and hiring good people. Lazy and shortsighted hiring processes that prevent business from effectively...
From time to time, we invite Catapult Group Leaders and speakers to contribute to our blog. Here, new Group Leader Fred Kroin, based in Phoenix, Arizona, shares his thoughts on how to make sure you have the right people on your team—and jettison the rest. Throughout...
No single factor affects your business more than the decisions you make as CEO or owner. This includes the decision to seek out and hire the best people for your executive team. All too often, however, we don't hire the best talent we can find. We settle. Why?...
Many of us pride ourselves on being a good judge of character. When seeking to fill a high-level position within the company, we think we have an “eye” for finding the person who’s a perfect fit for the job. We invite this person to apply,...
Why Do Companies Hire Consultants? Usually, the decision for hiring a consultant starts with a pervasive organizational issue that offers no easy or practical solution. The CEO knows there’s a problem but doesn’t know how to fix it. Fortunately (or so they think), there’s a wealth of...
There certainly are successful examples of family business owners hiring their spouses to join them in the workplace, but these would certainly be the exception rather than the rule. What Could Go Wrong? The professional workplace is separate from our personal lives, so having the two be...