When to Pull the Plug and Fire Your Assistant!
If you thought hiring was difficult, firing is even harder. Many clients I have worked with will let a bad hire linger on for weeks, months or even years, rather than pull [...]
Ask a Fish to Climb a Tree
The result will be exactly what you would expect! It takes a very special personality to do well in sales. A successful salesperson doesn’t usually make a great manager. An accountant is [...]
Where Have You Been All Our Lives, AGENTC?
Bursting out on the recruiting stage, offering our services This year, Ghaz and I had the pleasure of presenting our business at RealtorQuest. If you’re a realtor, odds are you know about [...]
If Recruiting Was Easy, No One Would Need Us!
Trust us when we say that some days are harder than others. Recruitment in real estate is hard work. Bottom line and end of sentence. This is probably why we are the [...]
The Value of Transferable Skills and Multitasking
It’s useful if your administrator can pinch hit at the front desk if the receptionist is sick or if your sales rep can fill in their own forms if the administrator is [...]
Forget Finding the PERFECT Candidate!
Instead, create the PERFECT job for the candidate you love. Most clients who are looking to fill a role start with a job description: these are the skills I am looking for, [...]
The Telltale Signs of a Bad Hire
I believe in having a sixth sense, spidey senses, a gut feeling. Whatever you want to call it, I think intuition is real and it’s an important part of the hiring process. [...]
The Revolving Door
Some businesses, including a few real estate teams, are notorious for having a revolving door when it comes to staff. As an outsider, I am often privy to a little inside [...]
The Perfect Employee
Meet Darla. Darla is early every morning and arrives with perfectly hot, fresh Starbucks for her favourite manager. She is impeccably dressed in head to toe Prada, despite a middle income [...]
Rejecting Resumes
If you’re not getting a lot of calls, there could be a good reason. You have seven seconds to get a hiring manager’s attention with your resume or see it end [...]