Effective Assessment Tools for Building a Strong Team

Knowing What to Pay Employees Is Key in Today's Climate Morris Bixby

  Assessment tools can provide valuable insights into your employees’ strengths, weaknesses, and preferences, helping you understand their skills, work styles, and areas for development. This knowledge enables more effective team management, tailored training, and strategic decision-making. Your company can utilize assessment results by customizing training programs based on identified skill gaps, fostering team collaboration… Read more »

What Do Candidates Value Most in Potential Employers?

  When it comes to hiring the right candidate, it is essential to not only consider their skills and qualifications but also ensure that they align with the values and culture of your company. As an employer, it is vital to emphasize the factors that candidates appreciate and showcase your company’s mission, values, and culture… Read more »

Why is It Important to Do Reference Checks Before Making an Offer to a Candidate?

Companies should conduct reference checks on candidates to verify the accuracy of information provided, gain insights into the candidate’s past performance, work habits, personality, and make more informed hiring decisions.  It offers a glimpse into the candidate’s history and helps mitigate potential risks of a bad hire.  One of the benefits of working with us… Read more »

Is LinkedIn a Valuable Tool for Individuals and Businesses?

LinkedIn states its mission is simple, “to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful.” This goes well with our mission at Morris Bixby. Identifying these candidates takes skill. Attracting them takes a personal touch and a deep understanding of the industry and the people who work in it which is where… Read more »

Efficient Strategies for Avoiding Hiring Delays in Your Business

It continues to be a candidate’s market, and focusing on reducing your time-to-hire process is essential. According to Harver, only 30% of companies can fill a role within 30 days, and 57% of job seekers lose interest if the hiring process takes too long. The remaining take anywhere between 1-4 months to make a hire!… Read more »

Are You Aware of and Prepared for Counteroffers in this Current Climate?

Counter offers seem to be more common in today’s current climate. Employers have found they would rather keep their current talent than go through the tough process of hiring someone new. This is particularly evident in the more niche markets where the pool of experienced, talented candidates is even smaller. Companies are weighing the cost… Read more »

25 Years as Morris Bixby Group!

As we celebrate our 25th anniversary, we wanted to sincerely thank all our customers over those years. We have had the opportunity to work with such a wide variety of companies and people which have made the past 25 years fun, exciting, and rewarding. Our business has grown primarily due to referrals, clients, and candidates introducing… Read more »

Tips for Hiring New Talent in Today’s Competitive Market

Three Types of Company Differentiators That Actually Work Morris Bixby

In the current highly competitive hiring market recruiting new top talent is very important to ensure quality candidates for your company. As a company you need to make some decisions up front and prepare before you begin the process of looking for candidates and then hiring them. There are some key things you can do… Read more »

How Do You Create a Positive Candidate Experience?

When it comes to the important task of hiring for your company, you need to adopt some best practices for improving candidate experience. Candidate experience is the way the people who apply to work at your company view the hiring process. This begins from the first time they come across your company either on a… Read more »

When Should You Use Virtual vs In-Person Interviewing?

In 2020 it became essential for companies to find a way to conduct interviews with prospective candidates when Covid prevented in person interactions. According to a study commissioned by HireVue, a video interview and assessment provider, 41 percent of 1,140 hiring leaders said they plan to use a combination of in-person and virtual interviews. The… Read more »