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 »

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 »

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 »

How to Retain Your Top Talent

Losing top talent is costly. Losing an entry-level employee can cost upwards of $30,000 and losing managers or specialized talent can cost an entire year’s salary. But retaining top talent isn’t just about saving time and money on recruitment. It’s really about keeping your business competitive. Continuity of staff helps keep customer satisfaction levels high,… 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 »

Morris Bixby Group Welcomes Mike Eade

Morris Bixby Group, a leading agribusiness search firm providing the highest quality professional recruiting and career advancement services since 2000, is pleased to announce Mike Eade has joined the firm as Executive Account Lead. Eade has served in a wide range of commercial leadership roles in Ag Chem, Seed, and Animal Health. Now based in… Read more »

Can You Navigate This Candidate Driven Market?

As we begin a new year, Morris Bixby would like to share some trends we are seeing in this candidate driven market and how we can help you find the candidates you need to succeed. Over the past three years the hiring market has shifted. In 2020 when Covid hit, agriculture hiring reduced substantially and… Read more »

8 Unique Employee Benefits That Could Seal the Deal

Part of attracting the best agricultural candidates involves offering attractive benefits. In addition to health insurance, a retirement plan, and paid vacation, the majority of job seekers are looking for additional ways to earn income or gain help covering life expenses. By offering the benefits that most other employers do not, you increase the odds… Read more »