April 9th, 2009

How To Attract and Talk To Women

No this isn’t a Dating Guide, but it is about how to appeal to women job seekers when writing your job descriptions. Let’s be honest. The majority of office workers are female. I won’t go into the psychology of why women are more attracted to that kind of work (or why they are often better [...]

March 1st, 2009

Writing Job Descriptions—Give Applicants the Best View of Your Agency

According to the Harvard Business Review, satisfied employees equal happy, satisfied customers, which in turn equal repeat, profitable business. This is the classic service-profit chain, but it bears examining in our context of employee attraction and writing effective job descriptions. We might add to the formula that satisfied employees attract more like-minded team members. Remember, [...]

January 23rd, 2009

Job Descriptions…Why You Need To Take Them Seriously

So you have a job opening… I bet you think you know what the position requires. But do you really know? Have you updated your job descriptions in the last few years? Do you even have written job descriptions on file? To be proactive, it’s a great habit to keep written records of each position [...]