Staff retention is the biggest issue at board level – at least that’s what I’m hearing every day from my clients in businesses both large and small. With the UK facing a skills shortage, too many companies are chasing too few employees, and as a result, many tell me they’re struggling to attract the right…
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Hiring is much like a rollercoaster, it’s full of twists and turns… How can we be retaining new employees effectively, beyond the first 90 days?
Career Ambitions offers a profiling system as part of our career management coaching called the Language and Behavioural (LAB) Profile.
80% of the people we spoke to said they had not yet found their ideal career yet. Why?
The typical job interview process fixates on ensuring that new hires are technically competent. Only 11% of respondents in the study cited technical competence (or a lack thereof) as the reason for an employee leaving.
As a recruitment and retention coach, clients often come to me having experienced a recruitment failure. In fact, 85% of HR decision makers admit that their organisations have made recruitment mistakes.
There are plenty of models and research available around how to identify who will fit into your workplace culture when recruiting. But when it comes to the crunch time, do these really apply?
One of the biggest and most common mistakes most companies make when hiring is that they don’t seriously think about the type of person they are looking for and what they specifically need them to achieve before jumping into the recruitment process with neglected job descriptions. Most job descriptions are a visible indicator of just…
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