Heather and Sabine sit down with Jenna Hasson to dive deep into recruiting and selection and its impact on coaching. Jenna unpacks the connection between a candidate's purpose and their overall success, the revelatory power of market surveys, and the art of gauging honesty and soft skills in prospective talents.

Discover the significance of learning from recruitment pitfalls, the ideal candidate profile, and the transformative impact of activity coaching on recruiting effectiveness.

Episode Highlights:

06:32 - Talent Acquisition Strategies: "So we're really just learning to take a pause and say, okay. This is the best version of this candidate that we're going see in selection, and really just focusing on how are we experiencing them. If they have some mess ups in the selection experience, right, are we really sure that we want this person to come in and activity coach them, right, and onboard them and get them through training? Because it takes so much time, energy, effort, and money for to get one person, right, up and running. So I think it's just more of hitting pause and picking up on those red flags or those bad habits early on."

12:07 - The Importance of "Why" in Recruitment:  A big thing for me is really digging in and finding out the person's why, their conviction for, you know, why did you apply? Why are you interested in speaking with us? Why Northwestern Mutual? So we've always asked those questions and found out those things, but I think it's taking it a level deeper in  their why and in their conviction. Because if they don't have a really solid or strong why or passion for this industry, there's a very slim chance that they're going to either, a, continue on or last longer than, right, that 6 month, 1 year period."

26:08 - Effective Talent Retention Strategies: ..."every team at the end of the recruiting year, we're looking at that, and it's in everybody's face and saying, okay. Let's go 1 by 1. You know, how many not right nows did we have on the right choice assessment? How many did they do the market surveys? Did they get referrals on the market surveys? All of those things really 9 out of 10 times align, and then we say, okay. Would we hire this person again? Would we extend that offer? Sometimes it's yes. Sometimes it's no. It just really I I do think it's a good exercise."

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Heather Price Consulting