Here’s How You Can Grow Talent From Within

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The business world is ever-changing. With new demands, different challenges, and the emergence of a range of technologies, it can be hard to keep up. As a result, you might feel like there’s a gap on your team in terms of skills. The good news is that you can tap your existing staff to fill… Read More »

What’s Your Talent Engagement Plan Lacking?

  According to a recent Gallup survey, only 34.1 percent of American workers report being engaged and only 25 percent of them are highly engaged. These are frightening statistics considering engagement is critical to the success of your company. The good news is that you can improve engagement – without spending huge sums of money – just by paying attention to a… Read More »

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Key Things to Cover when Evaluating Your 2016 Hiring Outcomes

  You’ve found a great candidate, extended an offer, and trained and onboarded the new employee. Your work is done here, right? Not if you want your hiring processes to be as efficient and effective as possible. And the end of the year is an ideal time to take a look back and evaluate your 2016 hiring… Read More »

5 Fastest Growing Industries in the Next 5 Years

  The U.S. is projected to create approximately 7.2 million jobs in the next five years. And according to a recent CareerBuilder study, the following five industries will experience the most job growth by 2020:   Electronic Shopping Current Jobs: 245,403 Projected 5-Year Growth: 32% In the past five years, online shopping revenues have grown… Read More »

30th Anniversary: the Early Years of Morgan Hunter

In the fall of 1986, Jerry Hellebusch rented space in the Financial Plaza building at Metcalf Ave. and College Blvd., pushed 3 desks together and started making sales calls. Thirty years later, Morgan Hunter has become one of the largest, oldest, and most recognized recruiting firms in Kansas City. “We started off with three people,”… Read More »

Continue Building A Network To Help Your Business Grow

Connections make the world go round. As a result, if you don’t have a strong network for your business, it could negatively impact growth. Considering that growth is crucial for company success, what can you do to build a better network? Here’s a look: Get involved. As one of Kansas City’s leading recruiting firms, Morgan… Read More »

Is Your Management Style Effective?

Employees not performing well? You can blame it on lack of engagement, motivation, or skill. But, as one of the leading staffing services firm serving Kansas City, Morgan Hunter knows if you’re the one in charge, you also need to look at your management style as a potential culprit. Oftentimes, poor performance is the result of poor… Read More »

Top Traits to Look for When Hiring Accounting & Finance Talent

When hiring accounting and finance talent, hard skills are key. Without them, even the brightest candidate will flounder on the job. But those kinds of skills are easy to test for and verify. As a leading Kansas City staffing services firm, Morgan Hunter knows what’s not so easy to detect are the soft skills that are also… Read More »

Tools To Determine What Personality Your Team Has

As a leading staffing services firm serving Kansas City, Morgan Hunter knows that in an ideal world, all your team members would get along and work together seamlessly to get the job done. In the real world, though, that’s typically not the case. In fact, in most offices, some personalities seem to be constantly in conflict… Read More »