Barry Deutsch

Barry Deutsch has been a popular Vistage Speaker for over a decade in the areas of hiring and retention. In recognition of the value of his presentations, Vistage has given him the prestigious IMPACT Speaker of the Year Award. He is a co-author of the book ‘You’re NOT the Person I Hired’ (which is given out to all Vistage Members in his presentation by the same title). Barry and his partner, Brad Remillard, manage a well-known Executive Search Firm, IMPACT Hiring Solutions. Through their website and various blogs at http://www.impacthiringsolutions.com, Barry and Brad have pulled together one of the largest FREE resources of best practices in hiring and retaining top talent on the Internet.

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Hiring Mistake #7 – Fishing in Shallow Waters

Hiring Mistake #7 – Fishing in Shallow Waters

Most of the methods used to attract candidates bring forth candidates who are floating in the shallow end of the pond. They fall into what Read More

Hiring Mistake #6: Performance Bias

Hiring Mistake #6: Performance Bias

Hiring Mistake #6 is Performance Bias, which is the tendency to become enamored with how the candidate “performs” or “presents” during the interview.

Have you Read More

Hiring Mistake #3: Inappropriate Prerequisites

Hiring Mistake #3: Inappropriate Prerequisites

Hiring top talent is not the same as ordering through the drive-through line at your favorite fast food restaurant.

In many companies, the hiring process Read More

Hiring Failure: Hiring Mistake #2 – Superficial Interviewing

Hiring Failure: Hiring Mistake #2 – Superficial Interviewing

Next to not defining success, which I covered in my last blog post, superficial interviewing is the second most common mistake made in the hiring Read More

Why Hiring Fails: Hiring Mistake #1: Inadequate Job Descriptions

Why Hiring Fails: Hiring Mistake #1: Inadequate Job Descriptions

In one of my last blog posts, I mentioned that I would take the Study we did within the Vistage/TEC Community on Hiring Failure before Read More

STOP Missing the Target on Hiring Through Mistakes and Errors

Hiring Mistakes – Avoid the Most Common Errors

Over the last 6 months I’ve noticed an interesting trend occurring in the Vistage and TEC Groups in which I’ve presented our “You’re NOT the Read More

Better Hiring: Who’s on your shortlist to recruit?

Better Hiring: Who’s on your shortlist to recruit?

One of my favorite authors, Seth Godin, recently posted an article on his blog related to hiring. He posed the question that when you have Read More

Does Your Hiring Process Resemble A Rodney Dangerfield Comedy Skit?

Does Your Hiring Process Resemble A Rodney Dangerfield Comedy Skit?

We all know the comedian’s most famous line : “I get no respect.”

WHY IS CANDIDATE RESPECT IMPORTANT?

I came across this great post on Read More

Talent Plus Effort Equals Great Results

Talent Plus Effort Equals Great Results

As you probably know by now – my favorite metaphors are sports related –  especially basketball metaphors. For our new readers, a little background: In  Read More

Social Recruiting – The Next Hot Trend

Social Recruiting – The Next Hot Trend

Social Recruiting – Everyone’s talking about it – no one’s doing it!

What is Social Recruiting?

Social Recruiting is using the various social networking sites, Read More

Are You Using the Recession to Upgrade Your Team?

Are You Using the Recession to Upgrade Your Team?

Every recession provides a special opportunity to grab top talent that you might otherwise never have the chance to acquire.

You might ask “What is Read More

How is Recruiting Like a Highschool Sport?

How is Recruiting Like a Highschool Sport?

There is no difference for many companies!

The traditional approach by which the vast majority of companies treat the  process of recruiting is similar to Read More

Why is it Difficult to Find Outstanding Sales Professionals?

Why is it Difficult to Find Outstanding Sales Professionals?

In my last blog post on hiring sales professionals, I introduced the concept of why it is difficult to hire great sales professionals and we Read More

Are You Prepared to Lose Some of Your Best Talent?

Are You Prepared to Lose Some of Your Best Talent?

After each recession, there is typically a wave of turnover representing pent-up demand for employee dissatisfaction as advertised jobs increase.

Are you prepared for some Read More

Why is it so Difficult to Hire Outstanding Sales Professionals?

Why is it so Difficult to Hire Outstanding Sales Professionals?

In over a decade of presenting to Vistage Groups our popular program, “You’re NOT the Person I Hired“, I’ve discovered that the most Read More