"If we don't get the people thing right, we lose; It is the most important thing in all our businesses."
      Jack Welch, Former CEO, General Electric

"There is nothing more important to a manager's personal success than hiring good people....nothing."
      Lou Adler, Author of Hire with Your Head and the Powerhiring System

"In a good-to-great transformation, people are not your most important asset. The right people are."
      Jim Collins, Author of Good to Great

Can you identify with any of these hiring challenges?

° Your mission-critical position has been open too long and you are losing revenue and efficiency.

° Your personal performance is suffering because conducting the search on your own is a time-vacuum.

° You're only seeing resumes of the unemployed, the unqualified, and the unhappy come across your desk and can't seem to tap into the "passive" candidate market - that pool of successful candidates who are not currently looking for another opportunity.

° The costs of a bad hire include more than just lost revenue. Training time, pay, insurance, & HR expenditures combine to make bad hires very costly (one to five times annual salary, according to a 2007 Right Management survey).

The Turning Point Solution:

1. Establish a Strategic Hiring Plan. Your human capital needs must be defined and interwoven into your company's strategic plan.
   
   
2. Really define the candidate you seek. Superior performance in any position needs to be clearly defined in terms that are specific, measurable, results-oriented, and time-sensitive. All parties involved in the hiring process should agree to these specifications.
   
   
3. Develop a partnering relationship. Developing a partnering relationship with responsive communication between you and the search firm you work with is critical to the success of any search and will pay big dividends.
   
   
4. Spend time doing what you do best. By working with a quality executive search firm, like Turning Point, Inc., you are free to do your job and only look at the most qualified candidates for your mission-critical positions. No more resume overload. No more time wasted. Maximum personal efficiency for you.