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A Rising Tide? Employees Begin to Explore Their Options

How to Dissect a Corporate Culture - How to identify the components that make up your organizations corporate culture.

The Increased Importance of Finding Global Talent discusses the reasons why globalization will continue despite the global economic crisis and emphasizes the importance of having the proper resources to conduct searches on a worldwide basis.

10 Ways to Identify Talent for your Organization Tired of posting your open positions on job boards, Linkedin or Craig’s List? Here are 10 new ideas to identify talent for your organization.

Leading Brand, or Me - Too Product? Makes the point that employers – like the products they market – have a brand image that can either attract or repel prospective job candidates. In today’s Internet democracy, truly satisfied employees are the company’s best brand ambassadors.

Are You Closing the Deal? No matter what is happening in the economy, employers need to sell candidates to close the deal.

Hiring Managers - Are You on the Same Page? Discusses the need for hiring manager consensus before interviewing candidates.

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The CEO's Guide to Talent Acquisition Finding Talent Your Competitors Overlook Co-authored by Ginni Garner, Managing Director, Sanford Rose Associates - Cleveland East

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Make the Downturn Work for You offers employers useful advice on how to fire and hire strategically in today’s economy – trimming the fat without getting rid of the lean. It places strong emphasis on using search professionals to make the best hiring decisions.

Employee Morale: The Effects of an Uncertain Economy on the Workforce examines the negative impact that corporate layoffs can have on those who remain – and recommends steps employers can take to reverse the tide.

Critical Openings Are Exactly That makes the case for why executive-search firms help employers find the very best talent – and how search firms can actually reduce the cost of hiring.

Elephant in the Executive Suite For at least the next decade, employers will struggle with the consequences of an aging workforce, both in terms of hiring and of promotion. Elephant in the Executive Suite,” examines the strengths and weaknesses of older employees and addresses the increasingly common occurrence of older workers reporting to a younger boss.

Yet Another One Said No examines how the hiring process can go awry and what hiring managers can do to fix it.

A Cloudy Economy's Silver Lining examines ways in which smart employers can use a surgical approach to firing and hiring, avoiding the pitfalls of mass layoffs and hiring freezes.

How Is Your Supply of Leaders? addresses the often-difficult challenge of cultivating the next generation of organizational leaders. The newsletter suggests several different ways of identifying leadership traits in time to nourish and broaden them before “betting the ranch” on an untested commodity.

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