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Margaret Graziano Receives Industry Innovator Award

Inventor of Conscious Hiring Margo Graziano recognized for her contribution to creating powerful corporate culture by revolutionizing the hiring experience for candidates, hiring managers and companies. This years National Women's Entrepreneur Award for...

Jun 25, 2013

Conscious Hiring is a proven system designed to hire the right person for the right role.

Conscious Hiring™ Training

Let’s face it. Your internal talent is probably your ONLY competitive advantage. For your company to grow and be an industry leader, it’s critical that you hire difference makers who have the capacity and ability to achieve your company’s goals and...

Why Use an Assessment Tool?

600,000 to 9000 career vacancies are attributable to a mismatch between the skills employers seek and those available in the market. With 4.6 unemployed people for every job opening in the U.S. and an average of 3.5 million critical skills employees...

Conscious Hiring: An Operationally Efficient Sales Hiring Process That Gleans World-Class Results

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 ...

Hiring in "The Office"

As many of us have experienced, hiring a new manager can be tough; especially if they have big shoes to fill. For any hiring team, the selection process can be long, drawn out, and even destructive if you don't have a cemented hiring process. You'd...

Does your Organization Work to Keep Its Top Performers?

Think about it: Your company's only truly sustainable competitive advantage, which cannot be copied by competitors, is your corporate culture and the strength of your leadership. Does your company reward innovation, reinforce positive results and...

5 Steps to Building Trust Between Team Members

Talk of trust-building and teamwork in the office may sound a bit touchy-feely to some. These terms connote awkward exercises and ridiculous activities right out of a Dilbert cartoon. Instead, let's think about trust in a professional sense. ...

Hiring Better 101

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...

7 Steps to Hiring Better Salespeople

In today’s business economy, you simply can’t afford to hire a sales person who doesn’t immediately and consistently contribute to your bottom line. Senior Level Sales Leaders need to be confident they’re hiring the best salesperson for future key...

5 Ways to Retain Your Top Talent

While the recession is easing and unemployment figures are falling, there is another set of numbers that doesn't look so good.

Staffing Industry Executive Forum Recap

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...

Recruitment: Why Change is Good

Global employment is changing rapidly. Within the last 20 years, we've witnessed highs and lows that have redefined the way talent is acquired, assessed, and implemented into the various business environments of the modern world. This change has been a...

An Employment Rant From An Outsider's Point Of View

Getting hired hasn't been a problem for me, nor do I foresee it becoming one in the future. Saying that may surprise many people, especially given the current state of employment in this country, but I'm not done... I'm 20. Now I know what you're...

Market Manager -Chicago

Market Manager You enjoy selling and business development, creating strategic solutions that meet your customers’ needs as well as becoming an integral part of your customers strategic advisory counsel. An ideal opportunity for you is one that affords...

If the Job Could Talk...

By Bill J. Bonnstetter JOB TALK If a job could talk, it would explain precisely what was necessary to achieve superior performance. We could ask it to tell us about the: Knowledge a person needs, Personal attributes required to drive success, Rewards...

Talent Management Analyst

You are an analytical, service minded business professional with a solid and stable work history and 8 years of domain expertise in Recruitment, HR Consulting or Organizational Analysis. You have well defined organizational and planning skills and a...

AP survey: Outlook for 2011 economy is brightening

WASHINGTON (AP) — Employers will hire more workers this year, and the economy will grow faster than envisioned three months ago, according to an Associated Press survey that found growing optimism among leading economists. But unemployment will stay...

Choosing To Win During A War For Talent

By: John Kurzatkowski. I currently work with Margaret at KeenHire as a Sr. Recruitment Consultant, and wanted to share with you a bit more about how to win in the midst of a war for talent. As the business-news media competes for our attention by...

KeenAds: An Account Executive In Silcon Valley

Account Executive/ New Business

Lets Talk Retention

According to Noah Webster, "Retention is the act or power of keeping or retaining. Corporately, retention is the power to keep employees actively engaged and committed to being an integral part of the organization."

Applying the Win/Win principle to the “War�? for Talent

As the business-news media competes for our attention by flashing information on the impending talent shortage, some of us listen with a keen ear while others turn to more urgent, pressing issues. After 22+ years in the human resources business, I don’t...

103K new jobs in Dec. point to slow, steady growth

By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, AP Economics Writer Christopher S. Rugaber, Ap Economics Writer 1/7/2011

It's Soon Time For The Dreaded Annual Performance Reviews!

I can see every Manager I know wincing with anticipation. No one likes to give performance reviews. Why is that?

40% of All High Performers Are Looking To Leave Their Jobs

Are your Managers at the top of their game? How would you rate your employee productivity?Are your managers capable of hiring and keeping the right people? Does your company have a Talent Strategy and is it linked to your business strategy?