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Calculating the time and money spent on your hiring process, recruitment marketing costs, and revenue per employee provides insight into how much hiring the wrong person can hurt your business. These results affect your bottom line. Hiring the wrong person elevates your expenses related to hiring, onboarding, and training replacements. These losses quickly add up… Read more »
Upskilling involves learning new skills or teaching employees new skills. The process includes engaging in or offering professional development so employees advance in their career paths and employers help close their companies’ skills gap. Reskilling involves learning new skills to perform a different job or training employees to perform different jobs. The process includes looking… Read more »
Candidate ghosting involves a candidate stopping communication with an employer during the hiring process. The candidate disappears without an explanation or reason why they no longer are interested in the position. Candidate ghosting continues to become a regular practice during The Great Resignation. Candidates have a significant number of opportunities to choose from. Therefore, many… Read more »
Like most industries, agriculture is facing a shortage of job candidates. This means you may be having trouble adding members to your team. Although you may want candidates who work in the industry, you could be better off looking in other fields. After all, relevant experience does not always make a candidate a good… Read more »
Hiring the right manager for your agricultural team can be difficult. You want a candidate with the right mix of hard and soft skills to thrive in the role. The following examples can provide guidance for the types of questions that may uncover the valuable insight you are looking for from each candidate. Choose… Read more »
In most cases, employees will not come to you and tell you when they are feeling bored and unmotivated at work. Rather than sounding negative or coming across as lazy, good employees who feel uninspired will press on until it becomes too much to bear, at which time they will begin looking for a new… Read more »
The overall unemployment rate in the US is around four percent, but when you isolate professional labor, unemployment is actually two percent for skilled talent. Finding impactful sales and marketing professionals for ag businesses in today’s market can feel impossible, but companies cannot afford to leave critical roles unfilled. Use these strategies to overcome the… Read more »
When it comes to finding new job opportunities in the agriculture industry, it’s often who you know that makes all the difference. Connections are important, but many professionals neglect networking because it can be time-consuming and overwhelming. If you’re serious about building your career in the ag business, however, it’s time to get serious about… Read more »
Going through the entire hiring process only to lose your ideal candidate to a competitor is a frustrating and expensive experience. Losing a candidate at the end can set you back weeks or even months if you have to start the process over from scratch. It happens to everyone now and then, but if your… Read more »
Hiring a top performer takes more than evaluating a candidate’s work history. Knowing what they’ve done in the past is helpful, but by focusing on what they can achieve in the future can go a long way to helping you find your next great employee. When you hire for more than a candidate’s current abilities your… Read more »