Recruiting Secrets of Great Leaders: Finding and Keeping Talented Employees

This Webcast was recorded on March 17, 2008.

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The cost of hiring a new employee is significant in both time and money.

To address these issues, many companies are trying “new” strategies for attracting and retaining employees or contracting with head-hunting firms. However, many of these approaches cost more and take more of your precious time, often with poor results.

Some managers and organizations are far more successful at recruiting than others.

What are their secrets?

It boils down to criteria, process and expectations. And you as the manager have the most important role in ensuring that you hire the right person for the job.

This Webcast explores the specific methods for increasing your ability to successfully recruit replacement staff and find the ideal hires for newly created positions.

What you’ll learn:

In an hour, you’ll discover wealth of practical advice and specific methods, including:

• The strategic components of top-flight talent acquisition
• Advice for making draft day decisions: the criteria that really matter
• Competency models and their role in talent acquisition
• Branding and on-boarding — don’t recruit without them

About the Presenter:

Robert M. Pearson is a Principal with Princeton Training Partners. During his career as a Human Resources Executive, he was responsible for directing employee relations, labor relations, compensation, benefits, recruiting, and communications functions.

Pearson held a variety of human resource positions at Princeton University, Teva Pharmaceuticals, Rhone-Poulenc Inc. and General Motors Corporation, where he led a team that created and implemented a recruitment process for SATURN Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary.

For additional training on this topic, consider these AMA seminars:

• Recruiting, Interviewing and Selecting Employees
• Interviewing Skills for Managers and Supervisors
• Employee Retention Strategies: Fighting Turnover

To learn more, read these AMACOM Books:

• 101 Strategies for Recruiting Success: Where, When, and How to Find the Right People Every Time, by Christopher W. Pritchard
• Recruiting, Interviewing, Selecting & Orienting New Employees, 4th Edition, by Diane Arthur
• The Employee Recruitment and Retention Handbook, by Diane Arthur
• The 7 Hidden Reasons that Employees Leave, by Leigh Branham
• One Foot Out the Door, by Judith Bardwick