Better Hiring Solutions

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If you've got an important job open in your company for too long, reach out for a free hour of help with better hiring solutions to fix the funk. 

Here are four potential reasons you're not filling jobs fast enough:

1. Heavy Vetting

If you're trusting your hiring team to deliver the highest quality candidates, you should insist people are more fully vetted before being presented for a first interview. Better hiring depends on the best upfront vetting. I'll share how our headhunting team does this when we tawk. 

2. Less is Best

If you're the ultimate decision maker, you shouldn't need to interview much more than five of the best potential candidates for any key role. Your hiring team should do all the heavy lifting upfront from a deep and diverse pool. If you're being inundated by an endless flow of resumes without your team narrowing the list in advance, let's tawk. 

3. Fearless Homework

I cannot tell a lie. There were times in my career when I dreaded the ask for a written homework assignment as a candidate. As a headhunter, I encourage all our company clients to give finalists a challenging task to help pick the winner. 

Our team encourages candidates to fearlessly deliver. If I trust the hiring manager is serious about offering the job, I trust our finalists to not hold back, and to earn the job by showing how they really think. 

4. Salary Transparency 

More states are passing new laws to have us all disclose the base salary range of any posted open role. These new regulations are extremely beneficial on both sides of the hiring equation. 

Life is too short to waste time guessing whether you're talking to someone who's not going to fit your budget. We've done away with the old rule that says, "don't talk money." Let's tawk. 

Free Test Drive

I've been hiring the best executive talent to lead any department since my first media job in 1980, and for the past five years as a headhunter. 

Reach out for a free hour session to talk about any problems you've got finding the best candidates for open roles. If we decide to work together, we'll negotiate a discounted fee on the first search we lead. 

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Rob Barnett is a headhunter, author, and guest speaker. He founded Rob Barnett Media in 2018, an inclusive platform for job-seeking pros and industry leaders placing the right people in the best jobs.

Rob has discovered, hired, and led hundreds of talented creators and executives in senior management roles at MTV, VH1, and Audible/Amazon. He was President of Programming at CBS Radio. A digital pioneer, he founded My Damn Channel, one of the first original online studios and networks. Rob is the author of Next Job, Best Job: A Headhunter's 11 Strategies To Get Hired Now.