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When you’ve found the right candidate for the role, it’s the best feeling.  You’re excited, eager to get the offer out, and hoping that your competition doesn’t snag them before you can lock them down. But just as you’re about to celebrate, you remember one last step in the hiring

On October 10, 2009 Kevin Houle, President of Tracks and Wheels, a manufacturer and distributor of mining equipment based in Sudbury, Ontario, took off in his company’s Piper PA28 from Kingston, bound for Sudbury, with his wife, his daughter and her boyfriend aboard.  Eight hours later the wreckage of the

Finding top talent isn’t always easy. Regardless if you are hiring for an entry-level position or an executive role, it can be really hard to sit back and hope the right applicant finds you. Not to mention, other companies and competitors are vying to win those top candidates, and competition

Like a doctor treating the symptom rather than the disease, employers often focus on the wrong solution to a problem when bringing on new talent. It pays to look deeper. Bill Thomas owns a mid-sized mechanical contracting company that had been growing quite rapidly in recent years, but lately had

Productivity (or the lack of it) – who gets the credit (or the blame), front line employees or management/ownership? Lately there has been a lot of discussion about productivity, or rather Canada’s disappointing record of productivity increases over time.  There also seems to be a certain amount of confusion about

Nightmare! You are General Manager of ACME Widget and your current Manager of Widget Distribution isn’t working out.  After spending several months engaging with him about his performance and moving from verbal warnings and coaching to a more formalized and documented performance improvement program, he still isn’t improving fast enough. 

Employees have a duty to provide reasonable notice when resigning.  However, it may be difficult to claim damages unless the cost to the company stemming from the lack of notice (not the cost of the resignation) is greater than the wages saved in the employee’s absence. Refer to this interesting

Most managers don’t worry about recruiting unless there is a hole to fill.  Holes can open suddenly if someone unexpectedly gives their notice, or they can develop slowly over time as a problem employee fails to respond to attempts to salvage them, or their responsibilities outgrow their abilities.  Holes also

You’ve gone through the hiring process of getting the right person on board. You’ve done the advertising, reached out to those “in the know” for contacts, and perhaps retained the services of a recruiting firm (I don’t mind the term “head hunter”). You’ve gone through a number of interviews and

Recruiting fails because of a handful of poor tactics. Fix these classic pitfalls and watch your talent acquisition success soar. You Are Fishing in a Puddle – Go For the Ocean! The whole idea of successful recruiting is to choose the best candidates from a very large pool of talent.