If managers are complaining that jobs are staying open too long, are you sitting down with all concerned parties to see whether they are screening for the same thing?
Do you have data on how long similar jobs remained open in the past?
Are managers coached about how to interview? This includes developing questions that are designed to elicit answers that discern a person's qualifications?
Do you review offer turndowns as case studies?
Are people at a manager level and above evaluated for staff retention and turnover?
Looking at the individual steps that go into the hiring process and monitoring them from beginning to end to insure that everyone is working together with the same goal in mind, that people are monitored for outcomes and the turndowns are turned into learning opportunities where all parties involved can learn (could you have known earlier that she wanted more money than you were prepared to pay; could you have sensed something earlier and investigated it that would have allowed you to determine that there was another company intgerested in him and, thus, acted more aggressively, to name two).
Jeff Altman
The Big Game Hunter
Concepts in Staffing
thebiggamehunter@cisny.com
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, is Managing Director with Concepts in Staffing, a New York search firm, He has successfully assisted many corporations identify management leaders and staff in many disciplines since 1971. He is a retired certified leader of the ManKind Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues, and a practicing psychotherapist.
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