Financial leaders no longer operate in a vacuum and are essential players in your company’s overall business strategy. This means that they must also have the strong leadership qualities to thrive in today’s business landscape – and many of these qualities have nothing to do with numbers.
Having a competitive compensation structure will not only help you attract the best talent, it can also motivate your team to perform better, help you achieve organizational goals, and lower your turnover rate.
Incentive programs set goals and performance standards, make you an attractive company to work for, and help shape a strong organizational culture. The key is to offer the right incentives. Sure, free lunches, company swag, and tickets to events are great, but the key is to use incentives that have a long term impact.
By Bruce Powell Job candidates often ask us how much information they should disclose to their headhunter. Should they say who else they’re interviewing with? What other recruiters they’re working with? Should they reveal their…
By Bruce Powell Toronto Recruiter & Founding Partner Are resumes really dead? Well not completely, but they have certainly started to lose their relevance. Online information, such as your LinkedIn profile and…
By Adrian Robinson, Toronto-based Marketing Recruiter It’s not just what you say in a job interview, but also what you ask that matters. Answers tell an interviewer what you know, but questions tell them how you…
By Toronto Marketing Recruiter Mark Rouse Everyone knows that top talent is hard to find. The very existence of recruitment firms like IQ PARTNERS is ample evidence of this simple truth. What is less well known…
This might be obvious for most people, but you would be surprised at the number of people that treat their LinkedIn profiles like Facebook. LinkedIn is a social network, so I can understand why…
Back in September 2012, LinkedIn introduced endorsements, touting that, “with just one click, you can now endorse your connections for a skill they’ve listed on their profile or recommend one they haven’t added yet”. Now that we’ve seen it in practice, does this feature deliver value to the LinkedIn user, either as endorser or endorsee? Is it becoming a professional popularity contest or is there validity to endorsing or being endorsed? As heavy LinkedIn users, our recruitment professionals weigh in below.
