It wasn’t just the American electorate that was caught off-guard with this past election result, as many banks are scrambling to understand what this means for the next four years. Regardless of how you feel about the election results, it’s…
Author: Jon Burkhart
Let’s Be Completely Transparent With Each Other
“There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.” – Joseph Pulitzer One of the things that made…
What Motivates Passive Banking Candidates in this Marketplace?
According to a March 2016 Gallup survey, US Employee Engagement, which is a measure of how many employees are enthusiastic during their day to day work, is at a record high! Great news, right? Well, that depends on how you…
Show Your Work When Interviewing Candidates
The phrase show your work, for many, probably dredges up memories of filling sheets of paper to answer long-form division or algebra equations back in school. If the answer to the question seemed fairly evident, students would simply skip the…
Retaining your Millennial Bankers
In an often-sited 2014 retention study from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median tenure of workers ages 25 to 34 years is 3.0 years. If the numbers still work in 2016, which there is every indication they do, this…
The Key to Hiring Top Candidates in a Competitive, Candidate-Driven Market
As 2015 ended, the hiring market seemed to follow suit. Motivations have changed for truly qualified candidates who are now much more passive than they have been in years, while needs have increased (as well as the urgency of those…
The Biggest Roadblock to Hiring the Best Candidate (and how to get around it)
Have you checked the unemployment rate recently? We’ve gone from 4.9% unemployment to 5.5% unemployment in a quarter, which suggests a fairly robust market. At least, that’s the 10,000 ft view from our candidate traffic helicopter we call the US…
Success(ion) Planning — When Retirement Becomes a Winning Strategy
By now, it should come as no surprise that baby boomers are retiring in record numbers. According to AARP, the number of retiring baby boomers is somewhere in the range of 8,000 per day. Considering that the average age of…
Is Your Bank a Reactor?
With the new year here, many of you may be feeling a renewed pressure to meet goals and continue to grow portfolio size and revenue for your company. By this point, every bank knows what that ‘magic’ growth number is…
Green Beans and Checking Accounts
I had a very insightful conversation earlier this week with a national retail banking manager in the Midwest who managed grocery stores in a previous career. His approach to how he trains his lending team is simple and intelligent: “Every grocery store carries basic Del Monte…