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Recruiting and Hiring

One of a manager's key responsibilities is building a team of outstanding employees who can help your organization reach its goals. Selecting the right person is not an inherent talent, but rather is a skill that must be learned. And even a truly superb selection process is of little value if your managers aren't recruiting enough people in the first place.

Selection errors are common and costly. Estimates place the cost of turnover from 1.5 to 4 times the salary of a lost employee to 5 to 9 times the salary of a lost executive. With the loss of a single employee costing anywhere from $50,000 to $500,000+, companies cannot afford not to equip their managers with the knowledge and skills necessary to recruit and hire excellent employees.

The Berke Group enables your managers to find and place the right people in the right jobs every time through a highly effective, step-by-step process. Our consultants work with your management team to ensure all hiring managers in your organization understand how to consistently recruit and hire the best, using a proven system and techniques that include:

• Developing target profiles that define both the job to be filled and the ideal candidate.
  
• Developing and maintaining thorough, up-to-date job descriptions.
  
• Networking to find excellent prospects.
  
• Conducting structured interviews to help uncover a candidate's true strengths, weaknesses and potential.
  
• Asking better interview questions and skillfully probing to get beyond basic "role play."
  
• Evaluating candidate answers more effectively.
  
• Utilizing the Berke Assessment to help determine how candidates fit with job requirements.
  
• Obtaining more candid feedback from references.
  
• Making final hiring decisions and establishing expectations with new team members.