Infographic: Why Retraining Current Employees Is Cheaper than Hiring New Ones
When productivity takes a dive, it can be tempting to fantasize about bringing in a whole new team to bring the fire back to your office. However, research shows that, in many cases, it is actually much less expensive to retrain current employees than to replace them with new hires. … Read more
Three Ways Company Trainers Can Help Hire Top Talent
Corporate trainers and educators are profit drivers now — and in more ways than one. Although their primary impact on a company is by training employees to master high-impact skills that help improve business performance, they can also add value (and profit) in other ways, too. Company educators have an unique knowledge … Read more
Why ‘Gamify’-ing Employee On-Boarding Makes Tons of Sense
Most new-hire training looks pretty much the same. A new worker joins the organization, and for the first week we put them in a training class, have them fill out piles of paperwork, and walk them through who’s who at the company and teach them to do their jobs. Different jobs … Read more
New Hires Not Working Out? Try Psychometric Testing
Too often sales executives find that newly hired sales professionals do not possess the particular traits needed for the jobs they were hired to do. ES Research Group estimates that this happens 25 to 33 percent of the time, depending on the industry. In all cases, those salespeople endured or … Read more
Infographic: The Staggering Cost of a Bad Hire
Your company is growing rapidly, and you’re desperately looking to fill in the gaps as quickly as possible. However, putting the wrong people in those positions could ultimately end up costing even more. Thanks to a survey published by Careerbuilder.com we learn just how much bad hires cost companies, and … Read more
