Talent Acquisition – Mercuras Group

TA Best Practice for Tech Start-Ups

Enterprise organisations hire very differently to your start-up. And so they should. After decades of experience, they have a well-defined and articulated understanding of their EVP, who their ideal employee is, and how to assess them for the best possible chance of meeting success. You, despite your best intentions, do not. Yet. Fortunately, you can stand on the shoulders of proverbial giants and use their evaluation techniques to short-cut your learning process if you are [...]

TA Best Practice for Tech Start-Upsargonis2017-07-22T09:49:37+00:00

Talent Acquisition Vs Talent Attraction Vs Recruitment

People are starting to become more aware of the differences between 'Talent Acquisition' relative to 'recruitment' so of course, the industry had to muddy the waters once more. Introducing ‘Talent Attraction’ as the new kid on the block. Let's define things so we all have common footing just in case; Recruitment, typically in the form of external agencies, supply specific candidates against an open requirement in a peg/hole process. In recent years this has been brought [...]

Talent Acquisition Vs Talent Attraction Vs Recruitmentargonis2017-07-22T09:34:55+00:00

On Boarding 201

Further Steps in On Boarding In our last post we looked at the foundational elements of a successful on boarding program – what to do before you’ve even met the person you want to hire. The second touchpoint is the interview process. Walking through the reason for this role, the expected day-to-day as granularly as possible, and getting the candidate to talk through their view of a 30/60/90 plan (at second or final stage) [...]

On Boarding 201argonis2017-07-22T09:35:53+00:00

On Boarding 101

On Boarding Starts Before You Start Despite the abundant evidence to the contrary, On Boarding is not about getting a semi-viral share of a new desk adorned with company swag and a nice new Macbook positioned perfectly like an alloy supermodel... It’s become quite prevalent in the last year or two on LinkedIn, seeing desks neatly arranged with company swag and the obligatory insta-filter photo demonstrating just how valued employees are to this brave [...]

On Boarding 101argonis2017-07-22T09:36:17+00:00

Your Leadership Team Sucks, not HR

Probably… Considering people are labelled the primary asset of every organisation and by the overwhelming majority of leaders (just look at any company mission statement...zzz), it's amazing that the role of identifying, engaging, and securing future-performers is pushed on to relatively inexperienced staff, be they middle managers - or more likely with SMB’s - already over-stretched HR Managers. HR is not recruitment. That's why Talent Acquisition or Internal Recruitment functions are built inside each and every [...]

Your Leadership Team Sucks, not HRargonis2017-07-22T09:37:31+00:00

The First Interview

How do you conduct the first interview for new staff? BZZZZZ. Wrong. Trick question. You don't conduct the interview, the candidate does. The Mercuras Group 'Reverse Interview' process is something we developed to secure the top performers. If you've already engaged good people and lined them up for an interview, and you're genuinely excited to meet with them, then you need to impress them. They have options. You want them to want to work with [...]

The First Interviewargonis2017-07-22T08:17:20+00:00

Don’t Let SOS Ruin You

Shiny Object Syndrome Short of Christmas and disco decoration manufacturing, there are few industries that endure so co-operatively with SOS (Shiny Object Syndrome) as much as information technology. Nearly every tech company suffers unduly from staff-turnover ratios higher than they’d like. Firstly, some turn-over is healthy; new ideas, new blood, new insights & innovation. It’s when we start climbing into the late teens and 20% that things start to become untenable. With tech, the strikingly rapid change and innovation [...]

Don’t Let SOS Ruin Youargonis2017-07-22T09:52:46+00:00

Dunning, Kruger, & The Puzzle of Recruitment

Like most things; painting, psychology, sports, fashion, architecture; there are sets of fundamental rules, and everything else is just icing. Well yes and no… Two researchers in the late 1990’s, Dunning and Kruger, conducted a series of experiments around the postulation that there is a fundamental disconnect between self-assessment and actual capability according to the level of exposure an individual has to true expertise in a given field. It’s only when you get to a [...]

Dunning, Kruger, & The Puzzle of Recruitmentargonis2017-07-22T09:54:20+00:00