Posts by Jeff Gipson
Worried about retaining millennials? Start focusing on Gen Z.
Last December we published an article titled “Our Last Word on Millennials.” And we meant it. If you haven’t already gone through the process of addressing your hiring processes and adjusting them to target millennials, you’re too late. This is not to say that there still isn’t a vital need to continue to develop hiring…
Read MoreGetting the Most Out of Your Recruiter: Capitalizing on a Candidate’s Market
In our first installment of this three-part series focusing on the advantages of a quality recruiter for candidates we took you to the end of the process: counteroffers. We did this for a number of reasons. Counteroffers are historically and statistically a detriment to the candidate. They serve as little more than an insult from…
Read MoreHow to Lose a Candidate in 10 Ways
Are you worried about attracting great professionals? Are you concerned that your hiring process might be making too positive of an impression on potential hires? Cast your worries aside. If you think you might be at risk of getting dynamic and talented individuals excited about your organization, The James Allen Companies has curated a list…
Read MoreWeathering the Talent Storm
In 2017, we sounded the alarm bell regarding the impending talent shortage that is to be a result of the massive retirement of Baby Boomers. By October of that year, according to data collected by Pew Research and the Social Security Administration, Boomers were entering retirement at a rate of 10,000 individuals a day. That…
Read MoreOur Last Word on Millennials
The end of 2017 is fast approaching, and as the year closes, we feel it is time to close the book on one particular topic that has dominated the hiring conversation for the past few years: Millennials. We don’t expect this article to be the final word on the place of Millennials in the workplace,…
Read MoreUnderstanding the Passive Candidate
All signs within the insurance industry indicate that we are only moving further into a bear market in terms of accessible talent. As organizations continue to respond by shoring up their vacancies, it becomes increasingly more likely that the best fit for your open positions is already employed with one of your competitors. What makes…
Read MoreThe Eleventh Hour Part 4: Investing in Education
As we look to close our four-part series on talent-shortage crisis, we begin to look forward to better understand what the insurance industry can do to combat the impending deficiency of qualified leaders and personnel. To recap the major points of our Eleventh Hour series: baby boomers are retiring en masse, leaving a large hole…
Read MoreThe Eleventh Hour Part 2: The Technology Paradox
In the first episode of this four part series we discussed the growing talent crisis that continues to threaten the traditional structure of the insurance industry. Specifically, we focused on the three generations that occupy the insurance talent pool and how each poses their own unique threat to the ability to meet staffing demands. The…
Read MoreDeath of a Candidate
There’s a plethora of quotes and clichés preaching the virtues of action. The early bird gets the worm. Strike while the iron is hot. We could fill this post with the redundancy of phrases affirming and reaffirming the importance of being decisive and acting quickly on those decisions. As we find ourselves at the midpoint…
Read MoreDo you want MVPs or championship rings?
For as long as sports journalists have been shoving tape recorders and microphones in the faces of successful coaches, we have been privy to their “secrets of success.” The responses have become so typical that we can recite them as if we are the Lombardis and Woodens of modern business. The responses rarely change and…
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