by Sandra HessAugust 30, 2016 Nearly every business owner and hiring manager is guilty of making choices that negatively impact their quality of hire. We’ve discussed it before – some 95 percent of the employers have admitted to recently making a bad hiring choice. But these poor decisions don’t just cause monetary damage. Bad hires … Continue reading 5 Reasons Your New Hires Are Failing
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How to Onboard New BDR Hires
by Andrew TateAugust 16, 2016 It’s easy to say you need great onboarding. It’s more difficult in reality. On top of that, it’s easy for growing companies to push an onboarding strategy low on the list of priorities. This can be a fatal mistake. Bad onboarding can have lasting repercussions that continue to have a … Continue reading How to Onboard New BDR Hires
3 Reasons New Hires Fail (And How You Can Encourage Success)
by Rachel Clapp Miller May 24, 2016 Follow @ContentRachelMay 24, 2016 When a new hire fails to catch on with your sales team, it is a financial burden. It can also hurt the morale of your existing staff. Recognizing and guarding against the more common causes of new hire failure improves your chances of routinely … Continue reading 3 Reasons New Hires Fail (And How You Can Encourage Success)
Why 95% of Companies Make Bad Hires
by Suzanna Colberg May 11, 2016May 11, 2016 It’s no secret that an unrefined hiring process can cost an organization thousands, or even millions of dollars annually. Additionally, as much as 80% of employee turnover stems from bad hiring decisions, according to the Harvard Business Review. The good news is if you’ve made some hiring … Continue reading Why 95% of Companies Make Bad Hires
Qualities to Look for in Marketing Hires
by Zach Heller March 23, 2016 Follow @zhellerMarch 23, 2016 Looking to hire someone for your marketing team? When the time comes to bring someone on board, the first thing you must do is decide what role they will fill. What will their daily responsibilities be? What company goals will they be responsible for helping … Continue reading Qualities to Look for in Marketing Hires
7 Strategies to Prevent Bad Hires
by Michael Hintz February 26, 2016 Follow @NLCMikeFebruary 26, 2016 What are the costs of a bad hire? Nearly everyone in business has a personal story to tell about the damage caused by someone they hired that did not perform as they expected. There are certainly many reasons for poor performance that are out of … Continue reading 7 Strategies to Prevent Bad Hires
You’re Making Quality Hires… Find Out Who They Are
Tom GimbelJune 28, 2015 Tim Sackett, SPHR, recently wrote an interesting blog post about ‘highly selective’ employers. Many employers take pride in their rate of hiring compared to their volume of applications. Yet citing research from Time Magazine about selective universities, Sackett questioned whether quantity of applications was an accurate measure of selectivity or quality … Continue reading You’re Making Quality Hires… Find Out Who They Are
In PR Tailspin, Sony Hires Real-Life Olivia Pope
Judy Smith’s list of Scandal-esque clients include Monica Lewsinky, NFL quarterback Michael Vick, and the World Health Organization. By Chris Gayomali Sony Entertainment is still reeling from cyber-attacks that leaked hundreds of gigabytes of private emails and other internal documents for the public to comb through. Now to deal with its PR nightmare, The Hollywood … Continue reading In PR Tailspin, Sony Hires Real-Life Olivia Pope
How to Create Hi-Res Retina Images for Email
Mike Parry November 22, 2014 While the world of email might be a a few years off from implementing something like SVG images there are a few tricks you can do to ensure you have high or at least higher quality images in your emails. The technique described here works best for small images, … Continue reading How to Create Hi-Res Retina Images for Email
The Secret to Ramping New Sales Hires
Onboarding and Ramping New Hires Sales and channel executives responsible for hiring and ramping new hires have a whole host of challenges in finding and hiring good candidates and in getting them productive. Onboarding new sales hires in many companies is a process of indoctrination in the product; demo, presentation, pricing, followed by CRM and … Continue reading The Secret to Ramping New Sales Hires