Slacker Manager

July 25th, 2008

Hiring Rockstars and Camping Buddies

Sam Decker shared a fantastically helpful articled about the 5 stars of a Rockstar Employee.

Initiative
Integrity
Execution
Strategic Agility
Communication

Here’s a bit of background on why Sam is qualified to write this list:
In my career I’ve worked with hundreds of people, interviewed a few hundred, and hired over 100 people. A minority of these folks (say 10%) were […]

By Phil Gerbyshak -- 0 comments

July 11th, 2008

Free Hiring Coaching

Miki Saxon made a very kind offer to everyone who reads Slacker Manager: a free phone consultat for anyone looking for coaching on how to hire great people. Here’s what Miki shared with us about hiring in her comment on a recent post:
Hi Phil, I think that turnover through no fault of your own is […]

By Phil Gerbyshak -- 1 comment

July 9th, 2008

5 Must Have Skills - Mopey Murphys Need Not Apply

I’ve been doing a LOT of hiring lately, and folks have asked me what I look for when I hire folks for my IT Help Desk. I find that the best folks have these 5 qualities in abundance, with number 0 being non-negotiables.
0) Attitude and communication skills - If you can’t talk or write […]

By Phil Gerbyshak -- 11 comments

June 16th, 2008

Poaching Passive Job Seekers with a Business Card

The Unofficial Apple Weblog reports Apple’s newest way of hiring great employees is by poaching them from other companies. A business card Apple’s recruiters give out says simply:
You’re amazing. We should talk.
That’d get me to at least make a phone call to set up a lunch meeting to learn more about the opportunity.
I’m thinking […]

By Phil Gerbyshak -- 4 comments

June 2nd, 2008

Pay Me $50,000 to Quit Writing Slacker Manager

Bill Taylor recently shared a unique strategy from online shoe retailer Zappos: It offers new employees $1,000 (plus up-to-date pay) to leave the company. It’s an interesting strategy: pay folks who aren’t 100% committed to the company’s mission, vision and values a decent sum of money to quit right now, rather than find out they’re […]

By Phil Gerbyshak -- 11 comments

March 5th, 2008

Bathroom Poaching (and I don’t mean eggs)

My friend Wendy Terwelp alerted me to a very interesting article about bathroom poaching, a term I’d never heard before, to describe stealing recruiting employees using very aggressive tactics, including advertising in the employee bathroom (see, you get the term now, bathroom poaching. I got it now too!)
The article makes mention of recruiters swarming Yahoo […]

By Phil Gerbyshak -- 0 comments

February 25th, 2008

3 Ways to Hire for the Wow Factor!

In a recent post about hiring great people, Rosa Say shared this comment:
You’ve struck somewhat of a nerve with me within this posting, because while I’m realistic about not expecting people to be completely turned on high at work all the time, we settle for way too much mediocrity in life. As far as the […]

By Phil Gerbyshak -- 9 comments