KeenAlignment Blog | Unwanted turnover

Hiring: Sins of Omission - Part 2

by Margaret Graziano | Dec 11, 2015 | Employee Selection, Hiring Process, Recruiting, Unwanted turnover

When candidates are faced with such strict hiring guidelines, often out of insecurity and desperation they take some bad advice that typically sounds something like, “It’s only a white lie, saying you have done that will only get you a better offer, and...

Is Employee Retention An American Fable?

Never before have US companies had a harder time keeping their employees ALIVE and PRESENT at work. Maybe this FREE Agent mindset people are talking about has some real perks for both sides of the equation. I have been studying employment and work-place...

Bad Bosses Beware

by Margaret Graziano | Jul 30, 2013 | Employee Engagement, employee happiness, Unwanted turnover, bad bosses, Management Training

Employee happiness is at an all time low and Hiring Managers need to wake up and look at the cost on their bottom line. In the US alone we are facing a talent deficit of skilled workers to the tune of 50,000,000. Since good people are hard to come by and...

Assessments-Know What You Are Buying Going In

by Margaret Graziano | Apr 19, 2010 | Hiring Next Level leaders, Hiring Assessments, Conscious Hiring, Conscious-Hiring, Hiring Mission Critical players, Employee Retention, Employment Selection, Performance Management, Recruitment, Personality Assessments, Recruitment Strategy, Return on Hiring Investment, Talent Management, Unwanted turnover

Media from the Wall Street Journal to CNN, and CEOs with whom I’ve spoken, agree that one of the top strategic initiatives of many companies is hiring not only new talent, but also the right talent. It is forecast that by 2012, we will be fully engaged...

Employment Retention begins with Effective Recruitment & Selection

by Margaret Graziano | Apr 10, 2010 | Employee Retention certification, Employee Retention, Talent Management process in sourcing, Recruitment Process In Sourcing, Recruitment Training, Unwanted turnover

It however does not end there.

Does Your Recovery Strategy Include a Talent Management Strategy?

by Margaret Graziano | Jan 31, 2010 | Employee Engagement, Recruitment, retention, "selection hiring process", Talent Management, Unwanted turnover

If the reports are true and employee disengagement is on the rise, when 25% of your Key Contributors, Mission Critical players and Next level leaders become the departed, who will take their place?

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