The Definitive Guide to Recruiting Creative Talent
Recruiting creative talent. Get it right, and it’s like oxygen to your sales. This guide shows how to get it right and benefit from the most fantastic creatives.
4 Foolproof Steps to Hiring
It’s natural to be nervous about hiring. Get it wrong and it will cost your business. With these foolproof steps to hiring an employee, you’ll get it right.
Who’s hiring?
In a “normal” year, we would be in the middle of the busiest hiring season of the year. About half of searches and new hires occur between Labor Day and Thanksgiving. This is far from a typical year, but I still see a fair amount of hiring going on among my clients. We’ve gotten beyond…
How has living in a remote world impacted your business?
Most of us have been doing some version of WFH for at least 5 months now. Things that we thought we’d never do 5 months ago, interviewing candidates, on-boarding employees, pitching for work, doing a kick-off meeting or strategy meeting with a new client, brainstorming and refining creative ideas…we’ve done all those things at this…
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Would want to go to work for that firm?
I was listening to David Baker and Blair Enns talking on the 2Bobs podcast about the “common traits of success” that they see in firms that they’ve worked with. These are guys who have worked with thousands of creative firms between them, and they are boiling it down to the few indicators that tell them…
“Why is common sense so hard to find?” says every business owner, at some point.
I usually hear this from clients right after they hire a new person. “I’m pulling my hair out! After spending three months interviewing candidates, and checking references, I thought this person was going to be PERFECT for this job.” “But it’s their first week and every single thing they’ve done has been messed up…and it’s…
Everyone’s busy, but we’re going broke!
I got a call from a client who ran an agency that billed mostly fixed monthly fees. Her management team meeting had just ended, and it was a disaster. Her team was adamant that they needed more people. Everyone was busy, working overtime, and getting burned out. Raises have been paltry, and their best people…
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How to hire a virtual assistant for your business
I clearly remember the moment I decided to hire a virtual assistant (VA). As my business started growing, I realized that more clients meant more work to get done! Pretty soon, I was so busy that I was missing emails and failing to get back to people because I just never had the time. I…
A different way to solve your biggest business challenge
In a recent survey I did of over 100 business owners I asked this question: What’s your biggest business challenge? More than 50% of respondents answered, “Obtaining New Customers.” Not only was it chosen by a majority of responses, but it was also the most chosen answer by owners of every sized business, big,…
The one way to have “ready” talent
In our last conversation, we talked about how there’s no shortcut to good hiring. If you want to find rare talent, you have to develop a robust pool of candidates and screen for the best people. But there is one way to do some of that work before you have a need so that you…