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What Can Panama City Teach Austin About Leadership?
May 20th, 2013
Special to HT Staffing Blog
By Nad Elias
The answer to that question: everything. I just returned from the EO Global Leadership Conference in Panama City, Panama, where I learned just how small our global economy is when it comes to principles and values we all strive for, regardless of business size or location.
Panama City pulled out all the stops to welcome entrepreneurs from all over the globe to explore its historic ambition and...
Skyping Job Interviews: Headhunter Tips for Hiring Via Video Chat
May 20th, 2013
If you haven’t yet conducted a job interview via video chat, chances are you will soon. About 30 percent of organizations that participated in The Aberdeen Group’s 2013 talent acquisition research are investing in video interviewing. That number continues to grow by 10 percent each year. Video interviews can offer employers a glimpse into the personality of a job candidate, but it can also give candidates a glimpse into the hiring organization’s company culture. And, now that unemployment is down...
How (And Why) Executive Recruiters Consider Humble Leaders First
May 7th, 2013
By Nad Elias, Managing Partner, HT Staffing
Executive recruiters will tell you that a healthy leadership style can trump even technical know-how when it comes to staffing executives across all industries. In fact, executive search firms these days often consider leadership style the most important indicator of top C-level talent. For instance, will the job candidate be able to lead, empower and inspire? More and more, experts are finding that humble leaders do it best. In this post, we’ll take a look at why that’s true and how to spot...
Administrative Staffing: Mad Men Skills That Still Rule Today
April 16th, 2013
Administrative staffing isn’t what it used to be…or is it? Just how different is admin staffing since the days of Mad Men, when shorthand ruled and fetching coffee was a major job function? (Honestly, here’s a reminder from the New York Times documenting the perils secretaries faced when refusing to serve coffee in the workplace.) In-demand skills come and go, but there are several attributes that remain resilient. In the post, we celebrate Administrative Professionals Week (April 21-27...
Case Study: A Real Texas Staffing Challenge in the Real Estate Arena
April 9th, 2013
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Anyone who has been involved in a real estate transaction knows that it takes a surprising number of professionals to make each sale happen, with the title company right there in the trenches. This presents a unique staffing challenge for title companies, with the goal of hiring professionals who thrive in a team comprised of often-conflicting personalities—from real estate agent to title researcher. In this post, we follow Executive Vice President Molly Mallet and her staff at Texas Regional Title in Beaumont, TX, as they face this staffing challenge. In the process, the company learned that working with our...
Widening Your Candidate Pool (Part 2): People with Disabilities
March 25th, 2013
Hiring people with disabilities can certainly help drive social good, but including candidates with disabilities in the recruiting process can also potentially improve your organization’s bottom line. Last month, we explored reasons to recruit military veterans. In this post, we will outline ways to achieve the competitive advantages of widening your candidate pool by including people with disabilities.
First, it’s important to dispel the idea that a person with a disability fits the profile of someone...
Finance Staffing: Should You Recruit or Promote to Fill Key Roles?
March 12th, 2013
It’s an age-old accounting and finance staffing quandary: to fill key roles, should financial recruiters find talent elsewhere or should the company promote from within? Freescale Semiconductor Inc. CFO Alan Campbell joined Motorola in 1979 with a degree in accounting and just three years’ experience at a utility company. Did he ever imagine he’d stay with the company for more than 30 years? Working his way up the ranks,...
Special to the HT Staffing Blog--Fresh Perspective: Giving Back in Unexpected Ways
March 7th, 2013
By Nad Elias, Managing Partner
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The Austin chapter of the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO Austin) is divided in small groups of 8-10 entrepreneurs. These groups are call forums. Every year, my forum within EO Austin goes on a retreat, which includes working sessions around both personal and professional development. This year, we chose to do a philanthropic opportunity as well, in the country of Belize. I know what you’re thinking: Great spot for a relaxing retreat, but how is it connected to philanthropy? For...
2013 Salary Trends in Texas
February 25th, 2013
It’s a job seeker’s market in Texas. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports unemployment is at its lowest rate in four years and, according to WANTED Analytics™, overall hiring demand in Texas has sharply increased in the past three months: Houston (10.4 percent), Dallas (19 percent) and Austin (8.7 percent). This great turn of events comes at a price for employers: Finding candidates at “discount” rates is no longer likely. We took a look at current salary trends in...
You Don’t Have a Recruiting Problem
February 14th, 2013
by Erin Osterhaus of the The New Talent Times blog at softwareadvice.com.
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If you’re not getting the quantity or quality of job applicants you want, you might think you have a recruiting problem. But rather than spend time working on efforts like re-wording your job descriptions to make them more exciting, or looking for yet another job board to post them on, you might instead consider approaching your recruiting problem as a marketing problem. Here’s how to apply four basic strategies...