Bill Wednieski 248-343-6027
If we’ve worked together or you’ve known me a while then you’ve probably heard me say, “If you order a pizza on Tuesday and it arrives on Friday, do you still want it?” Headhunting is a strange and unique business, especially in today’s market with historic employment levels. With unemployment at just 3.6% there simply […]
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Today is a watershed day for The Headhunters. We fired a client. Since our inception in late 2019, The Headhunters has always taken a “Yes” first approach. In the infancy stages of organizing this business, I came up with a simple mantra of “Anything for Money” or AFM. AFM was sort of a joke, but […]
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It is not a new headline that the United States experienced seven percent inflation in 2021 – the highest inflation 40 years. What has this inflation meant in the job market? Going Backward If you’re an employee not earning seven percent more at the end of 2021 than the start of 2021, you are going […]
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As a recruiting firm we are always on the hunt for talented candidates. It is no secret that today qualified candidates are very difficult to come by. We recently tapped into a new and very narrow class of candidates I never could have fathomed, further narrowing the talent pool according to many major employers we […]
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I frequently write about cannabis and the work our firm The Headhunters, LLC does in this space. I love this industry and what’s not to love? Legitimate cannabis jobs are on fire with how fast they are growing, and no other industry has so many unique characters. Still, the industry needs some rails before bad […]
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“Impossible is not a fact. It is an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. Impossible is a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary.” – Muhammad Ali In business and in life the word impossible gets thrown around way too frequently. In today’s hiring market it is a fact that it is exceptionally difficult to […]
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I’ve had the very recent firsthand experience of working with candidates at polar opposite ends of the vaccination spectrum. First, I was working with a very bright young lady that told me about a “deal breaker” on mask or vaccine mandates. I asked her to clarify, and she told me she was looking for a […]
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How does this sound? You’re a hiring manager, and you regularly keep the best candidates interested in your company, bring the best candidates on as your newest team members, and bring efficiency to your hiring process. Amazing, right? To live that reality, discernment is key. You’ll need to see and understand not only the tendencies […]
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According to the U.S. Bureau of Statistics, the average turnover rate in the U.S. is about 12% to 15% annually. That means a company will lose between one in six or eight employees each year. (In your next staff meeting try not to wonder about who could leave looking around at your team’s faces whether you are […]
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We are all busy In 2018, Ladders, Inc. published a study that recruiters spend an average of 7.4 seconds reviewing a resume. I’m confident that my team and I do better than that, but honestly, hopeless resumes don’t get much more than 15 seconds with some of those extra seconds just out of personal empathy. […]
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