Attracting, selecting, and retaining top talent is a challenge for many businesses. Join long-time executive search professional Scott Peterson, alongside Steve Yakesh, EVP of Versique, one of the top Executive Search firms, to discuss insights and techniques to assist companies to achieve their best results. If you’re an Executive Leader looking for advice on attracting, selecting and retaining the best talent for your company, you’ll want to hear this weekly advice from these industry...
Talent attraction has proven to be a big challenge for companies in today's candidate-driven market. In this episode we'll discuss the first two steps in talent attraction, which includes how to construct a dynamic executive position profile and develop a compelling story to take to the marketplace. Connect with Scott Peterson on LinkedIn! Connect with Steve Yakesh on LinkedIn! Learn more about Versique
Talent Attraction in today's candidate-driven environment continues to challenge organizations. In this episode we'll discuss five key components to build an executive compensation package that is appealing to candidates but also motivates your executives to attain your company's short, mid, and long-term goals. Connect with Scott Peterson on LinkedIn! Connect with Steve Yakesh on LinkedIn! Learn more about Versique
Talent Attraction in today’s candidate-driven environment continues to challenge organizations. In this episode we’ll discuss the several elements of the talent attraction process, which includes how to manage internal versus external candidates, candidate market research and how to active your networks to attract the best talent. Connect with Scott Peterson on LinkedIn! Connect with Steve Yakesh on LinkedIn! Learn more about Versique
Talent attraction in today’s environment may lead you to partner with a Retained Executive Search firm. In this episode we’ll discuss how to select the firm that best fits for your company. Connect with Scott Peterson on LinkedIn! Connect with Steve Yakesh on LinkedIn! Learn more about Versique
Talent attraction in today’s environment is a challenge, your company’s brand matters. In today’s episode we’ll discuss how your brand plays a critical role in attracting the best talent to your organization. Connect with Scott Peterson on LinkedIn! Connect with Steve Yakesh on LinkedIn! Learn more about Versique
Your company did a great job attracting some top talent, now in this very competitive market, are you ready to select the best candidate for your company? In today’s episode we will touch on the five areas companies should focus on to have an effective talent selection process. Connect with Scott Peterson on LinkedIn! Connect with Steve Yakesh on LinkedIn! Learn more about Versique
Is your selection process ready? In today’s episode we discuss the “who” of talent selection. Who should be involved and when should they be involved in the process? Your process needs to be well-planned and managed, today you will learn some tips and tactics to help select the right candidate for your company. Connect with Scott Peterson on LinkedIn! Connect with Steve Yakesh on LinkedIn! Learn more about Versique
In today's labor market, evaluating your candidates for your top positions is paramount to finding the best “fit’ for your critical hires. In today's episode we will cover three key elements to evaluate your candidates, cultural or company fit, career motivational fit, and job skills/experience fit. Connect with Scott Peterson on LinkedIn! Connect with Steve Yakesh on LinkedIn! Learn more about Versique
In today’s episode we will discuss who should ask what questions and how to evaluate the responses. We will also discuss the use of talent assessment tools to assist in the selection process. Connect with Scott Peterson on LinkedIn! Connect with Steve Yakesh on LinkedIn! Learn more about Versique
In today's episode we will discuss the most common interview biases that occur during the interview process and tips to avoid them. Stay tuned as we walk through what it means and how it effects the way your company selects top talent for your team. Connect with Scott Peterson on LinkedIn! Connect with Steve Yakesh on LinkedIn! Learn more about Versique
Extending a job offer is an exciting time in the talent selection process. In today’s episode we wrapped up talent selection by discussing how to extend an employment offer to a candidate, along with some key strategies and tactics to help you and your team while presenting an offer. Connect with Scott Peterson on LinkedIn! Connect with Steve Yakesh on LinkedIn! Learn more about Versique
In today's episode we previewed what will be discussed over the next 5-6 weeks around the topic of talent retention. Stay tuned as we discuss strategies and tactics around retaining top talent for key roles in your organization. Connect with Scott Peterson on LinkedIn! Connect with Steve Yakesh on LinkedIn! Learn more about Versique
Now that you have your new employee, you then want to retain them at your company. In today’s episode we started discussing employee retention. We revisit the importance of company, career, culture, and job alignment, along with the on-boarding and orientation process for your new employee. Connect with Scott Peterson on LinkedIn! Connect with Steve Yakesh on LinkedIn! Learn more about Versique
In today’s episode we continued on the topic of employee retention through the importance of peer groups and compensation as it pertains to retention. Peer groups are critical for your executives to be apart of as they give that executive access to other executives to use as a sounding board. We also revisited compensation as it pertains to retention. Connect with Scott Peterson on LinkedIn! Connect with Steve Yakesh on LinkedIn! Learn more about Versique
It is important to recognize and reward your top executives for their hard work as a retention tool. In today’s episode we discuss ways go above and beyond to recognize and reward key executives in your company. We also discussed the importance of work life balance as a way to retain not only top executives but employees across your organization. Connect with Scott Peterson on LinkedIn! Connect with Steve Yakesh on LinkedIn! Learn more about Versique
Today’s episode is the last in the series of candidate retention. We discuss the importance of communication and on-going feedback to retain your executive talent. Stay tuned as we continue on this podcast to bring you insights into Executive Search. Connect with Scott Peterson on LinkedIn! Connect with Steve Yakesh on LinkedIn! Learn more about Versique
Steve Yakesh and Scott Peterson sit down to recap a Forbes article written by Rebecca Skilbeck on the Top 5 Talent Trends for 2019 and how these trends relate back to our previous episodes on attraction, selection and retention of top executive talent. Now that we are into the second half of the year, employers are seeing a shift as they put the employee’s experience at the center of the talent management journey. Stay tuned as we discuss in depth all the talent trends from the article. ...
In today’s episode we decided to take a pause from our scheduled show to answer some questions that we have gotten from a few of our listeners. The feedback we have gotten was around questions regarding networking and building out your network from a candidate perspective. Stay tuned as we discuss the importance of building out your professional network and working with a recruiter even while you are happily employed. Actively working on your professional network is critical in order to stay ...
In today’s episode we discuss the in and outs to evaluating a new job opportunity and how to resign if you do decide to accept that new opportunity. Stay tuned as we dive deep into the risk and reward when it comes to leaving your current company as well as evaluating your current compensation and benefit plan against this new opportunity. We will also discuss some tips on how to resign from your current role if you decide to accept that new job opportunity. Inside Executive Search Podcast ...