Orion Insights for Employers, Managers, and HR and TA Leadership

When we talk about identifying talent, we’re usually talking about identifying that talent within the job market.

As we all experience travel restrictions, social distancing, and stay-at-home orders, Orion Talent has shifted our upcoming Hiring Events to our Virtual platform.

Employee retention is critical, but the old days of handing out a bonus and conducting a performance review once a year are gone.

Many Hiring Managers and TA professionals are busy fine-tuning their recruiting goals and budget for 2020, possibly even with an eye on a potential recession. With this in mind, Cory Kruse, President of Orion Novotus, recently shared five tips that companies should keep in mind with HR Morning.

The first step to better recruiting is to understand what it is costing you. And recruiting a new team member costs far more than you might think. Both internal and external activities affect your cost-per-hire. This ratio, the total dollars spent for sourcing, recruiting and staffing for the total number of hires during a specific time period, is an essential metric.

Thankfulness is a theme that deserves more than just a month. And in corporate culture, encouraging gratitude goes a long toward ensuring positive employee engagement. As long as this gratitude is genuine, it can have broad effects throughout a company in addition to engagement, including productivity and customer service.

Great; your star candidate accepted your job offer! You breathe a sigh of relief. That hard-to-fill position is dealt with! Not so fast -- Hiring a new employee is just the beginning. Onboarding is an integral part of the recruiting process.

When your staff lacks a key skill for the completion of a project, you have a few options. The first is to run, screaming, from the building into the nearest wooded area and never return.

Ghouls, goblins, and ghosts! It’s that spooky time of the year when children and adults alike don a new and often scary persona to earn tricks or treats. You may open your door tonight to a few ghosts, and, at Orion, that’s where we like them -- at your door, not in your recruiting process.

Twenty years have passed since Andy Pero and Shane Bishop, Account Executives at Orion Talent and Service Academy graduates, began their post-military careers at Orion. During that time, Andy and Shane have helped at least 400 companies hire more than 2,000 veterans, and have gleaned some valuable best practices. We are excited to share their insight in our new e-book, “1999-2009: Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Military Hiring.”

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