Getting passive candidates is one key to our work. It is delicate work. Often they have very little desire for new opportunities. Some feel they will only take perfect opportunities. You can call them or reach out to them with a text and get no response or a firm rejection. That is no fun. You […]
Continue Reading →High quality recruiting means sticking it out when things get tough. Lots or recruiters will send you a few resumes and hope to get lucky. Other recruiters will pad resumes and coach candidates to increase their luck, but of course this lowers your “luck.” We coach candidates to be themselves. That is who they will […]
Continue Reading →SHI Group has news for Western Companies looking to make the right first hire in China. We also have news for those who wonder why their China operation is not great. SHI Group had a customer who often wins awards doe being the best place to work in his state. In China, his company is […]
Continue Reading →Best interview thinking is rarely followed and rarely used. Then people say recruiting is a crap shot. They definitely do the crap shot to their loss. If our customers use best recruitment principles, then our partnership with them brings greater success. So, on to more thought. Can you make a candidate tell you the straight […]
Continue Reading →Interviews are valuable, but at SHI Group we see the limits of interview value. I guess you do to. Anyone can write anything on a resume. Then, talking to you in the interview, they can sense what you want to hear and tell you though it has not connection to reality. Any lie they wrote […]
Continue Reading →Knowing enough about candidates is an important issue before hiring. How much is enough? Is a resume enough? Might a 15 minute interview be enough? Or is a 1 hour interview enough? Your goal is to work over 1800 hours in the next year with this person, and they will be responsible for important work […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →It is a sad story when companies place the wrong people and best people leave. Yet, it happens all too often. When we first started this business, a US MNC needed a great plant manager with a niche qualification that made it an exceedingly hard search. Our rigorous recruiting was thus put to the test […]
Continue Reading →Experience is important and hiring managers seek that as do we. However, digging deeper for who a person is is a higher priority. Who is critical in hiring. By digging deeper and asking who what how and where or certain events, we learn a lot of facts that will be useful to piece together who […]
Continue Reading →Companies hiring in China often make one bad hire, and their whole team starts to crash. Note this funny video with no commentary on this very issue. Now, we all know replacing the team leader is risky. We have seen companies best efforts to improve there team destroy all their previous efforts. The new team […]
Continue Reading →Many people talk about fit like it is some mysterious substance. Actually, fit is an infinitely more important topic. Fit begs an important question. Are the candidates expectations and yours a match? If so, and you both are willing, the hire is likely to be long term. Fit is what you expect and what he […]
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