Posts by Carin Mosteller
How Does a Staffing Firm Find Its Next C-Suite Hire?
Why Do You Need a Staffing-for-Staffing Partner? Using a staffing partner for hiring into your C-suite helps you overcome many of the challenges of hiring senior staff within the industry. These challenges include: Demand – top-level executives can pretty much choose where they want to work and have a huge say on their terms and…
Read MoreDoes Your Mindset Make You Attractive as CEO of Staffing?
Reboot Your Job Search with a New Perspective Today, there is a unique mindset that makes you stand out as a future CEO of staffing. Indeed, research shows that mindset is becoming more important than skillset, particularly in C-suite roles. A study by Reed discovered that 96% of employers would choose executives with the right…
Read MoreIt’s Not Your Salary Preventing You from Hiring a New Division Director. What Do Top-Quality Candidates Really want?
What the best in the business really value most You thought hiring a new division director would be relatively easy. You’re recruiting for a successful business, you’ve posted on every job site, and you’ve shared the vacancy on your LinkedIn profile. You’ve sounded out your network. You’ve had applications, but none are quite up to…
Read More5 Candidate Qualities That Destroy Unconscious Bias
Shifting Interviewer Subjectivity to Objective Decision Making Though it has been a long struggle – one that is not yet over – unconscious bias is more understood and recognized by hiring firms. Nevertheless, it is likely that you will experience it in your search for a new position. How you deal with it could be…
Read MoreAre You Missing the Best Staffing Consultant Because of Unconscious Bias?
Discrimination You Rarely Recognize Could Be Damaging Your Business Have you looked at your staff recently? Are your staffing consultants ‘lookalikes’, all in the same mold? If you notice this, then your staffing agency could be suffering from unconscious bias in its own recruitment strategies and organizational culture. Are You Guilty of Discrimination? Your answer…
Read MoreWhat Skills Make a Staffing Consultant Stand Out?
7 Must-Must Have Qualities of Star Recruiters If you want to switch up your staffing consultant career at your current staffing agency, change sector , or move to a bigger and better job, then you must sell yourself. Online. When you’re networking. In your resume. At interviews. At every opportunity you have. And that means highlighting and…
Read MoreIf Your Staffing Agency Isn’t Hitting the Bullseye, You Are Targeting Your Clients Incorrectly
Focusing on Clients, Services, Message, and Brand Promise As a staffing agency, marketing is a large part of your business. Unless you get your message across effectively, you’ll never win the business your expertise and experience merits. But even if you have honed your message to perfection, if you aren’t targeting your clients effectively your…
Read MoreIs Your Staffing Agency Aligned with Your Clients?
Tips to Become your Client’s Strategic Business Partner Staffing agencies have been under a lot of pressure in 2020. Federal and State governments have taken unprecedented steps to save the economy from a COVID-19-induced recession, but it’s pretty clear the future remains unclear and continued economic uncertainty will impact the recruitment industry. Ensuring alignment with…
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