Comments on: Are You Hiring to Fit the Budget or Hiring to Fit the Job? http://thestaffingadvisor.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/hiring-to-fit-budget-or-hiring-to-fit-jo/ Thu, 09 May 2013 14:15:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Internal Equity vs. Market Rate « The Staffing Advisor http://thestaffingadvisor.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/hiring-to-fit-budget-or-hiring-to-fit-jo/#comment-24470 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:02:07 +0000 http://thestaffingadvisor.wordpress.com/?p=3599#comment-24470 [...] “internal equity” consideration.  I’ve written previously about the dangers of hiring to fit the budget, instead of hiring someone with the skills to actually do the job.  This “internal [...]

]]> By: How to Recruit When the Hiring Manager has Champagne Tastes on a Beer Budget « The Staffing Advisor http://thestaffingadvisor.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/hiring-to-fit-budget-or-hiring-to-fit-jo/#comment-18648 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:31:47 +0000 http://thestaffingadvisor.wordpress.com/?p=3599#comment-18648 [...] For more on this topic, see: Are you Hiring to Fit the Budget or Hiring to Fit the Job? [...]

]]> By: What’s the Salary Range for that Position? « The Staffing Advisor http://thestaffingadvisor.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/hiring-to-fit-budget-or-hiring-to-fit-jo/#comment-13699 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:39:49 +0000 http://thestaffingadvisor.wordpress.com/?p=3599#comment-13699 [...] the long run, hiring and retaining high performers is the only thing that matters.  And talking about salary too early in the hiring process prizes budget conformity over job performance.  (Full disclosure, we operate on a pre-arranged flat fee basis, so this is not a self-serving [...]

]]> By: The Danger of Playing it Safe When Hiring « The Staffing Advisor http://thestaffingadvisor.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/hiring-to-fit-budget-or-hiring-to-fit-jo/#comment-3557 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:59:49 +0000 http://thestaffingadvisor.wordpress.com/?p=3599#comment-3557 [...] paid about the same? (Actually no, but that’s another matter entirely).   The pressure to hire to fit the budget is so overwhelming that few people have the energy to fight [...]

]]> By: How to Hire Within Your Salary Budget « The Staffing Advisor http://thestaffingadvisor.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/hiring-to-fit-budget-or-hiring-to-fit-jo/#comment-3389 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:47:50 +0000 http://thestaffingadvisor.wordpress.com/?p=3599#comment-3389 [...] budget.   What do you do then?  (First, be sure to read my previous post about hiring to fit the budget instead of hiring to fit the job).    Before you overpay for your next hire, or underpay and waste salary dollars [...]

]]> By: Doug Davidoff http://thestaffingadvisor.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/hiring-to-fit-budget-or-hiring-to-fit-jo/#comment-1226 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:52:12 +0000 http://thestaffingadvisor.wordpress.com/?p=3599#comment-1226 The famous Ruskin line absolutely applies to hiring people: It is better to pay to much, then to pay to little. If you pay too much, you lose a little money – that is all. If you pay to little, you may not get the very thing you paid for.

Results in this market are too critical to risk paying too little for.

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