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Our highly skilled Behavioral Interview Consultants help you to determine the right fit before a bad hire is put into action. In the past, a well-written resume and a good surface interview was what positioned employees in their seats. Today, behavioral...

The Strategic Approach to Hiring the Right People. More than any other period in history, hiring the right person for any key role has become increasingly important for building, growing, and scaling a successful company. There is no magic “talent pool�?...

You want to make the most of your human capital investment. The right people doing what they do best are the driving force for any successful business. Keeping your workforce happy and on the job is a winning proposition for you and for your employees....

Whether you are an emerging start up or established midsized company, employee retention is most likely a nagging concern. For most companies, the first group of employees they are eager to retain is the sales and management workforce. While a well...

Recruiting millennials takes economy of communication and a compelling message, and it also takes relationship building. This is the challenge and the opportunity if you want to have millennials in your workforce.

I recently read an article for employees about how to position themselves for a promotion. In a corporate culture where the path to the goods is getting on top, getting that promotion is the key to nirvana. The next step up the corporate ladder means...

The most important thing that any manager of any business can ever do is hire the right people to work for their company. The hiring and selection experts at KeenHire can help you with hiring for growth in many ways. We can help you choose a team of...

Have you ever heard the saying that, “a play is only ever as good as the worst actor in it�?? Well... the same applies to business. Your company is only as good as the worst employee that you have working for you. Therefore, hiring the wrong people for...

Cher once sang a song about knowing how much a man loves you by measuring the quality of his kiss. Don’t underestimate the powerful messages of a resume and how much they can reveal about a potential employee from the very beginning. What do resumes...

How has the recent period of unemployment made it difficult to hire the right person? Why do you need to advice and expertise of the hiring and selection specialists at KeenHire now more than ever? The issue is that the increased levels of unemployment...

The interviewing process is one of the most important for any business. All managers and recruiters need to be armed with a range of the best interviewing tools on the market to ensure that the hire the right person for the job. This is where the...

Some say the great thing about being a third-party recruiter is that there are no firm rules on how to recruit. Well, this is just not true. If there wasn’t a right and wrong way to recruit it would simply fall apart. Every client differs, every position...

Age discrimination claims have hit record levels in the United States! According to msnnbc.com the figures have risen from 16,000 in 2006 to 23,000 in 2010. That staggering number has skyrocketed, one due to unemployment and two due to the generational...

We’ve all been there, sitting in the waiting room, palms sweating trying to memorize the “right answers�? while we are desperately scanning our resume , looking for the right thing to say (like we don’t know where we have worked and what we have done)....

The rise in unemployment tax is giving companies around the country a reason not to boost hiring. Having a significant rise on taxes such as this forces companies to dish out to their laid off works instead of focusing on their currently employed or...

According To Noah Webster, retention is the act or power of keeping or retaining, but Corporately, retention is the power to keep employees actively engaged and committed to being an integral part of the organization. So what is retention like in this...

The economy has shifted; the world is changing- we all are trying to do more in less time and with less money. Less than 15% said they were “extremely�? satisfied. Meanwhile, employers believe that 30% of their workers are “extremely�? satisfied.

Solyndra. Once one of the greatest solar companies just a few years ago, today is dead, and sending over 1,100 employees home. “As the manufacture of solar panels in the USA has fallen from 40% of the market a few years ago to around 5% today, the...

Last Thursday, the CEO of one of the most successful businesses in the world announced his resignation. Steve Jobs the co-founder of Apple is signing off to a new era. Jobs has been on sick leave since January of this year and has told the press, “"I...

Though the most recent recession was said to of ended over a year ago, the nation is still feeling the effect of the aftershock in the work place. Companies are rethinking their hiring processes, and using this post recession economy to retain their top...

As business leaders of scaling organizations you know that the success of your organization depends on the quality of the people inside. KeenHire Talent Management’s Conscious-Hiring webinar enables you to learn how to identify the right people for the ...

The Search Committee is off to find a new boss for the Dunder Mifflin, Scranton Branch was nothing short of a disaster. The charming Michael Scott has left and the ever so demanding challenge of replacing him is at hand. What do you do? With the...

Hiring better people starts with a mindset. In an ever changing world, adapting to new technologies and reevaluation of current systems should always be in consideration. Specifically, the staffing industry is riding a wave of social media...

As the economy begins to mend itself, we are starting to see a slow growth in the formation of new jobs. History shows that for every recession, a rapid period of growth follows shortly thereafter. Good news for employees, not-so-good news for employers.

2011 marks anew for all industries alike. The Staffing Industry is not immune to change, nor should it pretend to be. Since 2009 a lot has changed, and the Staffing Industry is becoming a whole new animal. From Margaret attending the Staffing Industry...