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Hiring in a Pandemic: Lessons I Learned

One thing I did not have on my 2020 bingo card was hiring two new employees during a pandemic. I feel really lucky to have had that opportunity in this context. Now that the onboarding is done and our new teammates are humming along with client work, I took a look at the hiring process and lessons I learned. Take a look at three key takeaways that I’ve highlighted to save your agency time and money when hiring a new team member.

How a Simple Personality Test Can Invigorate Your Company Culture

Maybe you’ve heard someone say, “She is definitely going to challenge this idea; she’s an 8” or “He’s an INFP, so he will understand where you’re coming from and get it.” What’s this have to do with agency operations? Well, as service-based businesses, the entire company rests on the personality and skills of your amazing team members. Using a test to understand everyone’s personality types, teams can work more effectively, efficiently, and can set teams up to astonish their clients.

What’s an HRIS and Why Your Agency Needs One

For the last decade my experience as an Operations Manager has taught me that a tool you loved 5 years ago might be outdated now! And it’s not just the tools that have changed. For those who have been involved in agency operations, you know how many moving pieces there are to track and manage. With everything that must be juggled as an agency evolves, it is crucial to find resources that help relieve the workload!

Top 5 Tips to Prevent Culture Debt

Glassdoor is a great place to get to read about people’s experience as an employee and talk about things that matter in the workplace. Things like their coworkers, processes in place, benefits and pay, their relationships with their manager, whether there’s a good work/life balance, and most importantly whether they approve of the CEO! Today we take a look at the underlying messages of negative company reviews, and how we can avoid these mishaps in our own agencies.

Get Ahead of the Competition: 8 Tips on Hiring

Here’s a crazy fact - our national unemployment rate is currently 3.5% (as of October 2019). This is the lowest it’s been since 1969!! That’s awesome right?! Well, yes for the economy, but not so much if you’re trying to hire for your company. Make sure you’re a cut above the others by really honing in your hiring process. The days of “I’ll know it’s the right candidate when I start speaking to them” are over.