Hiring is hard
Hiring is always hard. We have learn that recruiting and hiring is especially difficult with some of our small-to-medium size businesses that don’t have the staff or time to focus on hiring the right people, the first time. Hiring was difficult when the economy was doing well; it’s even harder now that times are tough.
Recruiters have learned that when unemployment goes up, the quantity of C-Players massively increases while the amount of resumes from A-Players probably remains the same. If you are trying to grow your resort business with A-Players (by definition a A-Player is an employee that is incredibly productive and smart—has “it”- that factor that makes everyone want to work with him/her), people that are really GREAT employees you need to have the time, people, and skills to distinguish the A-Players from the B or C-Players which unfortunately is a heck of a lot harder then reviewing and sifting through resumes. To tell the difference between the A-Players and the “others” you need to engage with candidates and therefore you’ll have far more candidates to deal with given this economic climate.
One way to decrease the number of B & C-Players is to specifically target candidates rather then to post a job ad in the local newspaper. We suggest hiring one of our recruiters (of course) to network your job to our network and to specifically target candidates for you rather then waiting for them to find you.
This economic downturn looks like it will affect us all for the next couple of years, so be sure to call us to help you fill your company with only A-Players and thereby creating your own A-Team.