20+ ways to improve your hiring strategy: tip #4 stakeholder alignment
At Stone, we are on a mission to improve the hiring experience For our clients, that means lower costs, better quality of hires, less wasted management time, easier lives and great results. We will be expanding on this mini series and sharing our top 20 employee-hiring steps that we feel are paramount to the recruitment […]
READ MOREpartners, not clients
PARTNERS, NOT CLIENTS By Emily Matthews Partnerships create synergy. The objectives of a partnership include bringing together the skills and resources of multiple people to create something that is better than the sum of its parts Devra Gartenstein, Bizfluent For consistency online we refer to our clients as ‘clients’, however, we like to consider them […]
READ MORE20+ ways to improve your hiring strategy: tip #3 rapid profile review
20+ WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR HIRING STRATEGY: TIP #3 RAPID PROFILE REVIEW (RPR) At Stone, we are on a mission to improve the hiring experience. We know how complicated the hiring process can be, so we are continuing our mini series where we let you in on our top 20 tips which will help you […]
READ MORE5 impacts of a slow hiring process
“HIRE SLOW, FIRE FAST?” There is an old adage that relates to timing within recruiting which is “hire slow, fire fast”. This isn’t something that I agree with, nor advocate as it harks to the time of a one-sided and more archaic approach to the hiring process. The importance of time is easier to see […]
READ MORE20+ ways to improve your hiring strategy tips# 1 & 2
At Stone, we are on a mission to improve the hiring experience. For our clients, that means lower costs, better quality of hires, less wasted management time, easier lives and great results. Each week, we will be expanding on this mini series and sharing our top 20 employee-hiring steps that we feel are paramount to […]
READ MOREhiring for growth
Introduction ‘Our people are our greatest asset’. Most leaders will tell you this without hesitation; an organisation is defined by the people working in it, so it follows that any sustainable growth requires a significant investment of time and effort in the planning and hiring of new talent. At Stone, we have worked with […]
READ MOREresponding to covid-19
Covid-19 has dramatically impacted everyone in such a compressed timeframe that many companies are understandably struggling to react. We recently sat down with Chris Andrews, Director at Stone, to discuss the operating challenges facing Stone’s clients (and Stone themselves), as well as any takeaways worth sharing in this unprecedented situation. How is this situation different […]
READ MOREmanaging your personal brand
Introduction We all have a professional brand value – how we are viewed by our peers, team, managers. Some people are intuitively good at managing their brand; many struggle to see the value in proactive ‘personal’ brand management (‘my work should speak for itself’). The fact is, we cannot stop others assigning a perception to […]
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