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Hiring: How to Attract Top Players

 Four Criteria to Help You Attract the Best—and Avoid the Rest

Patrick Valtin

Walter is a frustrated hauling business owner who has been trying to hire an Operations Manager for the last 8 months. His last attempt was disastrous: more than $6,200 spent on recruitment ad placements and 63 resumes screened. After 27 interviews in one week, four selected applicants were met for a second meeting. Not one of these finalists was offered the job.

What went wrong and why was Walter so upset? Simply stated, the company had been attracting the wrong people. An analysis of the job placement ad revealed too much emphasis on job-related hard skills and experience, as well as a strong promise of an attractive salary. But it was lacking a clear description of vital job-related soft skills needed to excel on the job and in Walter’s company environment. Most importantly, the ad was “selling” the wrong benefits to the wrong people—no clear mention of the most important selection criteria top players are looking for.

If you want to attract top players, you need to understand that your challenge is not to find them, but to attract them. Hiring is like marketing—if you do not know what top players are looking for, they will never show up. You have thousands of competitors when it comes to attracting the best, knowing that the war for talent is raging and that every business like yours is willing to overpay, compromise and sacrifice in order to attract top players. 

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FCM Announces May 26th E-Waste Collection Event in Ottawa, ON

FCM Recycling is pleased to announce that it will be holding a collection event located at the Scouts National office at 1345 Baseline Road in Ottawa, Ontario on Saturday October 15th from 10 am to 2 pm in collaboration with the Scouts of Canada. Staff from FCM and the Scouts will be on hand to assist Ontario residents to recycle their unwanted electronics including PCs, computer monitors, CD/DVD/VCR players, radios, printers, fax machines, keyboards, televisions, cell phones and other items. The complete list along with more information can be found at www.ontarioelectronicstewardship.ca/program/accepted-electronics. The collection will be free for all Ontario residents and a portion of all proceeds will be donated to the Scouts of Canada.

For more information, call (888) 781-8111 or e-mail info@fcmrecycling.com.

Don't Dump Yard Waste 

Led by the US Composting Council, the Sierra Club-Michigan, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Friends of the Earth and twelve other organizations today sent a letter to Michigan’s State Senators urging them to reject legislation (HB 4265 and 4266) that would effectively end one of Michigan’s most important recycling laws.

In the early 1990s, Michigan, along with 21 other states, banned grass clippings, leaves and brush from landfills.
These laws, said Michigan Recycling Coalition director, Kerrin O’Brien, have been responsible for more than one-third of what America successfully recycles, have preserved landfill space, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, restored fertility to our depleted soils, and helped create a sustainable composting industry. Composting a ton of yard trimmings, as compared to dumping grass and leaves in landfills, will, according to an Environmental Protection Agency letter to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality in 2010, generate five times as many jobs at recycling firms which pay their employees $1,500 more each year in wages. Institute for Local Self Reliance, Co- Director, Brenda Platt said, “It would be utter folly to favor polluting landfills over compost manufacturing, an expanding industry and job sector in Michigan.”  

Michael Virga, Executive Director of the US Composting Council, said that the 16 member national coalition had organized to draw public attention to the serious threat to America’s recycling success story that is posed by these bills.  JD Lindeberg, PE and President of Ann Arbor-based Resource Recycling Systems refuted waste industry claims that it was more beneficial to landfill organics in order to generate electricity from the methane gas produced in landfills. Lindeberg pointed out that, “Yard waste disposed in landfills will not have a measurable effect on the generation of renewable energy because most of these materials decay before landfill gas collection systems have been fully implemented.”

EPA’s letter also rejected the waste industry claims that landfilling was better than composting, stating: “reversing landscape waste bans would increase the amount of methane entering the atmosphere.”
 
For more information, www.compostingcouncil.org.