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The Kinds of Clients You Should Fire By Steve Margalit In our business it is always a constant battle to remove the noise and distraction that prevents us from getting where we want to go. One of those distractions, while it may fill up your Rudy Board, is working on a bad job order for a bad client. I can't stress enough the importance of holding yourself to a high standard when it comes to business development. Working on 'premium' jobs, with 'MPC' candidates of course, mak

FPC Bangor's owner, Gilly Hitchcock was featured in the latest edition of Maine Biz .​

Hiring Mistakes Companies Make You’ve done a great job attracting top talent to consider your company for employment. You’ve had a stellar interview process thus far, but you still have one major hurdle to clear in order to finalize and complete the process…get an accepted offer. We’re living in a highly competitive market for top talent. The margin for error is very narrow; it only takes one slip up to cost you your choice candidate. It’s extremely important to set your

Why a Mutually Committed Search is a Win, Win, Win When it comes to hiring a professional recruiting firm, many companies view their options through a very black and white prism. The perception is even more apparent when they engage with an executive recruiter. The two most common terms you’ll hear for types of searches are retained and contingent. What do they mean? What are the benefits of each? What are the drawbacks? Which is most effective? Is there a middle ground that

Executive Recruiting Best Practices The number one goal in any company’s recruiting effort is to fill their open position with the right candidate in a timely manner using executive recruiting best practices. This goes for the hiring manager, the talent acquisition team, the executive recruiter, and of course the candidate. Yet it often seems that some or all of these parties disrupt the effort rather than work in alignment to achieve the common goal. Speed and accuracy ar

Cost of an Unfilled Position Have you ever really taken the time to determine the cost of an unfilled position at your company? In many cases, it can be hard to quantify with an actual dollar amount. Sometimes you need to look beyond the financial impact, because there may be a psychological cost to your team as well. To really evaluate the impact of the vacancy, you need to consider these items and how they affect your organization: Product Development – has your compan

Why Companies Lose Top Candidates For those of us who have been involved in the process of recruiting and hiring, we know it can be a very humbling experience. Reflect back on some failed attempts at securing your prized candidate and you might find some obvious reasons why you couldn’t close the deal, Top 3 Reasons Why You're Losing Your Best Candidates . Here are a few of the usual suspects: Compensation – your competitor’s compensation plan was more aggressive than you

I had the great pleasure of meeting with University of Maine engineering students at the University of Maine Pulp and Paper Foundation Paper Days Event. These were students who were at different levels in their school career: some will be graduating in May and having completed 3 semesters of internships and accepted their first “real world” job, some were in their third year of college having completed one semester of internships, and some in their second year of college abou

We live in an age where hiring managers have more resources than ever before to try to identify talented people for their open positions. Social media is one of those resources and has now become part of the new normal when it comes to recruiting efforts. Corporations large and small are employing strategies to improve their social footprint. However, if you are relying on social media to do the recruiting for you, you may be missing the boat. Let’s start with some of the

By and large, companies just jump into their hiring process without a real plan. This often leads to a disjointed process that can take longer than necessary to complete. As anyone who has ever hired a decent amount knows from experience, time kills all deals. Companies that don’t have a well-defined process may find themselves losing out on the candidates they want to hire. These 5 process improvement strategies to shorten your time to hire will help you shorten the dist