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Why Hiring Is Still a Challenge When There is Talent Available?

The pandemic is not necessarily a negative impact event, particularly if you are looking for quality sales talent to add to or upgrade your sales team. With many employers downsizing or “smart-sizing” during the Covid impacted economy, there are quality professionals looking for new places to go to work. Bad things happen to good people, and that is particularly true as we head into the new year as some people have been caught in circumstances beyond their control and find themselves suddenly unemployed. Now just might be the right time to start hiring, but it is not the right time to hire poorly and just add bodies to the roster.

At Growth Dynamics we offer our Talent Selection Services to many companies that are worried about picking the right person for that open position. We also have a fair number of clients that have asked us to help them pick the right employer out of the vast number of companies they might apply to for their next professional stop. Whether you are looking for the ideal candidate to add to your team or you don’t want to end up working somewhere you can’t wait to leave, please consider the title of this blog directed at you.

Back in January, Sarah Waple and I attended the annual Target Training International Conference. The conference always delivers great application insights for the science of Human Behavior that we incorporate into our programs at Growth Dynamics, and every year the team at TTI invites a key note speaker to address the close to 400 attendees. This year the speaker, Molly Fletcher, a sports agent out of Atlanta graced the stage and delivered a ten-bell message with humor, challenges and personal experience. I thought she was a great presenter with a great message.

I just read the post below on my LinkedIn feed and thought it was worth sharing with everyone. The excitement of the promotion obviously gets some people too excited to ask, “wait a minute, what your telling me is I get a new business card, more responsibility but no bump in pay?” Sounds awesome doesn’t it? 

I just thought I’d share a list of books I’ve read or have started that might make good Holiday gifts for the person in your life (that could be YOU) that believes in personal and professional development. Some are familiar titles and are probably already checked off your list, but some are books you might not be on your radar. Cyber Monday is coming so shop early and load up on some powerful ideas.