Realistic Job Previews – A Smart Investment

by Amy Mills, Ph.D.,
Assistant Vice President
Generally companies post brief job descriptions on their websites, online, or in newspapers to recruit a wide variety of potential candidates. But that kind of job description does not tell the whole story. Hiring managers need to delve deeper and make available “realistic job previews” for serious candidates to truly [...]

What Keeps you up at Night? Clutch Performance

How many times has a consultant asked you, “What keeps you up at night?”  It’s a well-intentioned question aimed at getting to heart of whatever issues plague your organization, but it may have outlived its usefulness.  In any case, I know how I would respond if someone had asked me that question today: “Clutch.”
Clutch means [...]

Employment Branding Matters Even More

Last time, I talked about the importance of branding. And while it’s certainly true that branding matters (anyone NOT know the “brands”at right???), I think there’s a strong case to be made that employment branding matters even more. Because at the end of the day, your company isn’t run by products and services, it’s run [...]

Skilled Trades Shortage in Manufacturing Sector

Believe it or not manufacturing is a hot sector for employment especially in the U.S.  Listen to the media and you would think this is the big loser.  No wonder the Millennials have no interest and manufacturing continues to see their talent pool evaporate.
At a time when employment trends can seem somewhat confusing, one thing is [...]