Dresser & Associates

Is Your Hiring Strategy Efficient?

If your company cares about hiring smart people, you’re going to have to market to them, and the first way to do that is through your job postings. Lou Alder* takes us through an analysis of how to hire, what he likes to call, an “A-Team.”  The achievers. These are the over-performers who consistently exceed their performance expectation.
Hiring managers have chimed in by saying how disappointed they were with the quality of candidates …Read More

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Finding and Building A Team

Building great teams doesn’t happen overnight. It requires an overall human resource planning strategy that goes beyond team building exercises. That being said team building exercises don’t hurt, according to CEO.com. What matters is the right team and the right exercises.
How to find the best candidates for building a team
Ideally, a team works together because the members are all people who fit into the culture of the workplace. This returns …Read More

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Hiring In The Post-Recession World

Temporary workers may make up to 20 percent of the workforce by 2022, according to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers cited by CIPD. PwC indicated it believes those in charge of employee management are reaching a crossroads because more employees are changing their minds about what they want from their careers . People are beginning to telecommute and request hours that are different from the usual 9 to 5. As a result, 24 percent of strategic …Read More

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How To Deal with Employee Turnover

 Strong retention strategies are essential for human capital management because not only is finding and recruiting top talent expensive, losing top workers can drive costs up even more in the short and long terms.
The High Cost of Turnover
According to LinkedIn, the average yearly turnover at a company is 15 percent, 10.3 percent of which is entirely preventable. Losing workers and having to replace them isn’t cheap, either – LinkedIn …Read More

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Taking A Look At Hiring Trends In The Workplace

In a recent article from Software Advice, Erin Osterhaus shared her findings after conducting a survey to determine a key piece of a companies’ external hiring costs: advertising and marketing. The survey ran for over two months and although the sample set was rather small, there are still some important takeaways for HR professionals.
First of all, businesses should be keeping track of cost per hire metrics. Osterhaus said that “given the …Read More

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