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Hiring and Retention Articles

How to hire people who succeed and keep the people you cannot afford to lose: hiring for traits, stay interviews, competing when you cannot win on pay, and why people really leave.

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I have spent more than a decade in healthcare staffing, where finding and keeping good people is not a side project. It is the business, every single week. That work has taught me that most people do not leave over one big thing. They leave over many small things nobody noticed, and they stay for a leader who did notice.

These articles cover both ends: how to hire people with the traits that predict success, and how to keep them once they are on your team. They are written for HR leaders, recruiters and any manager who has watched a good person walk out the door and wondered what could have been done.

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How to Hire for Traits Over Experience

We can train experience, but you cannot necessarily train traits.

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Stay Interview Questions

What to ask your best people before they have a reason to leave.

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You Are Not Going to Win on Pay

How to compete for people when someone else will always pay more.

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01How to Hire for Traits Over Experience02Interview Questions That Reveal Work Ethic03Stay Interview Questions: What to Ask Before Good People Leave04Signs a Good Employee Is About to Quit05How to Have a Career Conversation With an Employee06How to Onboard New Employees So They Stay07How to Keep Gen Z Employees08How to Keep Your Top Performers09How Much Does Employee Turnover Really Cost?10How to Write Job Postings That Attract the Right Candidates11How to Use Employee Stories to Recruit12How to Recruit Nurses to a Rural Hospital13Why Good Employees Leave Good Jobs14You Are Not Going to Win on Pay15They Did Not Lose Interest. They Assumed You Were Not.16Same Job. Same Hospital. Different Story.17What Actually Keeps People18Why Employees Quit Their Managers (and What to Do About It)19How to Reduce Employee Turnover20You Are Not the Author of Your Employer Brand21Handling Hiring Objections to Recruit the Best Talent22Nurse Retention Strategies23CNA Retention Strategies24How to Recruit and Keep Skilled Trades Workers25Employee Turnover Cost Calculator
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