Small business, not-so-small problem. One of our newest clients is a small, family-owned business in the home renovation industry. As a small business, they don’t have a need for a large HR department or a team of recruiters. They were struggling to find a qualified receptionist who was a fit for both the position and… Read more »
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Advent Talent Group Wins Care Award (Again!) for Best Social Responsibility Program in U.S. Staffing and Recruiting
Posted on by Susan Isebrand
Advent Talent Group is proof that a small company can make a big difference! We are so pleased to announce that our team has been honored again this year with a 2019 American Staffing Association Care Award. This national awards program recognizes outstanding social responsibility initiatives—business processes that produce an overall positive effect on society—among ASA member… Read more »
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Client Success Story: Four Month Opening Filled in Five Days
Posted on by Josie Thuma
Advent, We Have a Problem One of our newest clients is a B2B educational software company headquartered in Minneapolis. They are a small, growing company making a big splash in the education space. While they typically rely on their internal HR team to hire new employees, they were having no luck finding a contractor to… Read more »
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Are Your Job Postings Driving the Best Candidates Away?
Posted on by Susan Isebrand
The hiring market is tough enough as it is, there’s no need to make your job harder. Here are three ways that companies are actually driving the best candidates AWAY from their job postings. Lack of Mobile-Optimization If your job postings and applications aren’t mobile-optimized, many of your candidates are simply giving up and moving… Read more »
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Three Heavy-Hitting Initiatives to Fix a Broken Hiring Process
Posted on by Susan Isebrand
When it comes to reducing fill times and hiring the best employees for your organization, few initiatives wield the kind of power that these three heavy-hitters do. These are not quick-fixes, but rather the kind of system-wide, sweeping initiatives required to bring about lasting change. But before you begin to feel overwhelmed about it all,… Read more »
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Does Your Recruiting Program Need Help? Here are Four Ways to Tell
Posted on by Susan Isebrand
In a tight labor market, an effective and efficient recruitment program is critical. Although many companies understand the importance of best practices in recruiting, they fail to update their protocols quickly enough to match the changes in the hiring climate. Does your recruitment process need tweaking? Here are a few ways to tell: Job Vacancy… Read more »
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This Job is Cursed! Four Tips on Filling That Impossible-to-Fill Opening
Posted on by Susan Isebrand
If you are struggling to fill your openings in this market, you aren’t alone. But if your job has been open for so long that it’s affecting morale, productivity, or profits – it’s time to get creative and reframe the requirements, responsibilities and/or benefits of the role. 1. Prioritize: Define what’s nice to have vs… Read more »
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Payrolling Service: What Is It and Why Do Companies Use it?
Posted on by Susan Isebrand
We’re on a mission to demystify staffing services and add more transparency to what goes on behind the scenes! One staffing service we get questions about is called “payrolling”. In this article, we explain what it is and why companies might opt for payrolling as a staffing solution. What is Payrolling? Companies who use payrolling… Read more »
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[Event Recap] Leadership and the War for Talent
Posted on by Josie Thuma
On June 11th, HR leaders from around the Twin Cities joined Advent Talent Group for a complimentary seminar entitled, “Leadership and the War for Talent.” Dan Neitz of COR led an interactive workshop on how to get to the core of what talent are looking for and how to translate that into hiring practices. Attendees… Read more »
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[Video] Advent Talent Group is Fully Independent!
Posted on by Mary Younggren
“INDEPENDENCE DAY” It has been our vision at Advent Talent Group for four years to be fully and completely independent; meaning to provide the payroll and benefits for our talent and to work directly with our clients (vs. an outsourcing solution). WE DID IT! There have been failures along the way, and obstacles to overcome,… Read more »