January 04th, 2012
We are pleased to announce that as we move into 2012 we will now benefit from the advice, counsel and expertise of a group of respected business professionals on our newly formed Advisory Board. We would like to thank each of them for their time and their support.
November 21st, 2011
January 20, 2012, Sandra Reder will be one of three experts sitting on the panel discussing Intergenerational Communication.
For more information visit the conference website.
November 14th, 2011
We are pleased to announce that Tony Lee has joined our recruiting practice with a specialization in IT recruitment. We welcome him to the Vertical Bridge team!
September 12th, 2011
Canadian HR Reporter, by Amanda Silliker
Child-care benefits in high demand by gen X, Y – countrywide service guarantees employees a spot.
Read Canadian HR Reporter article (PDF)
August 16th, 2011
Hiring authorities often say that hiring the top performers is at best a 50/50 chance.
When job descriptions are written they usually list requirements for years of experience, education, industry of experience, functional skills and personality traits in addition to outlining the duties to be performed, in essence – creating a template for ‘experience based’ hiring. Continue reading “Performance Based Job Descriptions Up the Odds of Hiring Right” »
June 23rd, 2011
One of our clients is fighting to change a culture of creating vague expectations, not measuring performance and not holding people accountable. Trying to make this shift feels like trying to move a glacier with a toothpick! Their biggest challenge is that the business owner is taking over from his father and has inherited a culture of acceptance “as long as you are not costing the business money you’re ok”.
Continue reading “Employees not performing…why do we tolerate it?” »
May 03rd, 2011
It’s not enough to find the right candidate; you must be able to land them. If you consider all of the costs involved in recruitment – not just in physically replacing an individual (out of pocket costs) but also those of lost productivity – it makes sense that once you find someone, you will want to up your odds of being able to make them part of your organization.
Continue reading “Making an Offer They Can’t Refuse” »
April 20th, 2011
I am working with three clients in very different sectors all of them struggling to figure out the answer to the same question… ‘in order to achieve our long term strategy we need to figure out who to promote and who’s already in the right ‘seat on the bus’.
March 22nd, 2011
Third party recruiting is as old as business itself and during good times recruitment firms flourish along with the economy and during bad times, they regroup and restructure just like the businesses they serve. At times there seems to be thousands of them competing for an opportunity to fill an open position.
Continue reading “What Every Manager Should Know Before Selecting A Recruitment Firm” »
February 25th, 2011
Recently I had a conversation with one of our consultants about the issue of “Succession Planning” and how critical this is becoming for organizations with the commencement of the retirement of the “Baby Boomers”.
We talked at length about how many organizations are ill-prepared for the major void that will be left when their key senior people start to retire. The following is an excerpt from a Wikipedia article I read recently about succession planning and I thought you might find it interesting.
Continue reading “Succession Planning – Who’s Left When The Boomers Retire?” »