People Pulse :: October 2004

Dear HR managers and business owners,

Something to think about as you plan your hiring for the fall: are you filling the right positions?

It sometimes happens that a growing company, eager to meet the demands of its expanding business, rushes into the hiring process without taking the time to really examine its needs. They know that new staff is necessary, but misidentify the functions this new staff would best serve. The result? They go through the entire recruiting process and eventually hire superbly qualified people, only to discover six months down the road that, although these new hires are great at their jobs, their jobs aren't what the company needs done after all. And then the recruiting process begins all over again, with the crucial difference being that the company has now fallen six months behind.

To avoid this difficulty, it's a best before you begin the recruiting process to sit down with an HR professional who can help you to closely examine the actual operational requirements of your business, so that you will know exactly who you need to hire.

I hope you enjoy the latest issue of People Pulse.

Cheers,

Bob Murray
Partner, People First Solutions

Poll Question: Which one of the following keeps your management team and company on track?

Article: Quality of Hire: How Companies Are Crunching the Numbers

Article: Talent Management Defined: Is It a Buzzword or a Major Breakthrough?

Success Stories: New Car Dealers Association of B.C.

Demotivations: Limitations

How often do Canadians work overtime?

About 8% of workers put in extra hours for which they're paid ... but another 10% work longer than normal hours without compensation.

- The Canadian Payroll Association

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	Recruiting Quality of Hire: How Companies Are Crunching the Numbers One of the few things that companies agree on is that "quality of hire" is an essential recruiting metric. When asked what it means, however, many companies are stumped. To shed light on the subject, we've compiled several common ways to measure whether an employee is a success. These include goal completion, capacity, motivation, knowledge and skill, general performance, problem solving skills, experiential contributions, customer compatibility, work group compatibility, etc.			Retaining Talent Management Defined: Is It a Buzzword or a Major Breakthrough? Talent management is the integrated process of ensuring that an organization has a continuous supply of highly productive individuals in the right job, at the right time. Rather than a one-time event, talent management is a continuous process that plans talent needs, builds an image to attract the very best, ensures that new hires are immediately productive, helps to retain the very best, and facilitates the continuous movement of talent to where it can have the most impact within the organization.


	"We have been extremely impressed by the results of People First's recruitment efforts on our behalf...thanks to their efforts, we have every confidence that in each case we hired the right person for the job." Glen Ringdal, President and CEO, New Car Dealers Association of B.C.


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