Hiring A-Players
We help executives build great organizations through systems for finding, recruiting, and developing, and keeping the best people. Hiring A-Players is a consulting and coaching program that helps your business to:
• Build the best possible team.
• Reduce costly hiring mistakes.
• Improve revenue and profit per employee.
• Create a culture of excellence that attracts customers and talent.
• Develop the next generation of leaders for your company.
Reducing Hiring Mistakes and Identifying the Right Person
We always start the Hiring A-Players process by identifying what great performance looks like in your organization. We create an A-Player Profile for each key position in your company. This benchmark allows us to assess and measure job candidates against the criteria that are specifically important for your positions.
In addition, depending upon the program version we select for your company, we will:
• Assess candidates and compare them to the A-Player benchmark.
• Create innovative employment advertising.
• Generate new employee referrals from your current employees.
• Leverage your network to generate high-quality referrals.
• Hold your executives and managers accountable for recruiting results.
• Use job boards like craigslist, Careerbuilder, Monster.com, and others appropriately.
• Implement an employment interview process that works.
Here’s What Our Clients Have To Say
“Eric Herrenkohl designed an interviewing system for RSI that is going to greatly help us improve the consistency and effectiveness of our interviewing process. Eric customized interview questions that help us identify if an individual has the combination of skills, abilities, and motivations required to succeed at RSI. He invested a tremendous amount of time to understand the details of our industry and what makes our people tick, and that understanding is reflected in the system he designed for us. I was particularly impressed with the on-line assessment instruments that Herrenkohl Consulting provides. They gave us unique insight into our best people and helped add a level of quantitative analysis to the hiring process that I think will be very valuable. I highly recommend this process to other National Kitchen & Bath members.”
Megan Bittle
Chief Operating Officer
RSI Kitchen & Bath
“We worked with Eric Herrenkohl to develop an interview and hiring system for Hallmark Stone, and I have been very pleased with the results. The fast growth and ongoing hiring we have been doing made it necessary to have a hiring system that is both effective and efficient. As an organization, we needed to become skilled at identifying job candidates who will succeed in our company. We also needed a standardized system that helps each manager focus on the necessary performance requirements when they conduct an interview.
Eric was very effective in working with us to design a system that meets both requirements. He took the time to learn our company, and to design a system that reflected our unique requirements. I appreciated that fact that he did not just try to sell us an off-the-shelf system. Instead, Eric worked with us to design a system that is right for our company. Eric’s follow-up demonstrated that he is interested in the success of this project and our company. I recommend the Herrenkohl Consulting hiring system and Eric Herrenkohl to any company that wants to become more effective at identifying and hiring the best people possible.”
Fred Christen
President
Hallmark Stone Company
“Eric reviewed our hiring practices and taught us the importance of “keeping the pipeline full” especially in our ever-changing retail environment . . . Eric assisted us in implementing some key tools in our hiring process. We now regularly use his assessment questionnaire for all prospective employees. This tool has provided us a two-fold benefit: it has allowed us to see if the prospect would be a good fit in our environment; and it has provided us a deeper understanding of the employees we do hire in terms of their behaviors and motivators. Eric has also coached us on asking better interview questions that will solicit quality responses from our prospects. Now we get our prospects talking in more depth about their previous work experiences thus providing us a better view of the candidate. Eric’s coaching and guidance has truly allowed us to make better hiring decisions.”
Tim and Lori Dreiling, Franchise Owners
Fleet Feet Tulsa
‘‘We use Eric Herrenkohl and his personnel assessment tools to help validate the decisions we make in hiring sales people. The process was so accurate in describing the strengths and weaknesses of our current sales staff that I have begun using the tool to screen every new sales person we bring into the company. As I look at our new sales people, I think it will be very useful from the beginning to know what areas to key on in developing both their strengths and their weaknesses. We now view this as a critical piece of our hiring process.’’
Matthew Funke
President
Dealer HQ
“Working with Eric Herrenkohl has gotten me committed to recruiting, which really means disciplining yourself to treat recruiting as a daily endeavor. Recruiting, like any business activity takes time . . . Even ‘little things’ such as putting flyers in bags and proactively approaching people who are high potential leads is generating new candidates. It is one thing to say that you are recruiting; it is another thing to do it.!”
Joe Glotzbier, Owner
Fleet Feet Sports
Mahwah, NJ
“We have been working with Eric Herrenkohl since last year's summer Fleet Feet Sports conference. In short order Eric has had a positive impact on our business.
We utilize Eric for the screening of potential new employees. The results have been very revealing and have not only helped our managers make good hiring decisions, but made them more comfortable in being able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the people they are interviewing. We have saved money and countless hours in training by not hiring employees who do not fit the profile of the successful Fleet Feet Sports employee. Best of all, our customers are seeing our service levels soar as we add additional motivated, trainable and service oriented employees to our staff.”
Ed Griffin, Franchise Owner
Fleet Feet Syracuse, Inc.
‘‘The Herrenkohl Consulting personnel assessment tool clearly reveals things about job candidates that are difficult to detect in a job interview. We had one candidate who did well in an initial interview, but whose assessment results raised some questions. Based on the assessment results, we asked some more focused questions in a subsequent interview. The candidate’s answers to those questions were not what we were looking for, and we subsequently disqualified the candidate. I view the Herrenkohl Consulting assessment as a valuable tool for identifying and hiring people who can and will produce.’’
Eric McCully
Senior Vice President – Finance
Targetbase (Member of the Omnicom Group)
“As our business steadily grew from a true Mom & Pop enterprise to one with dozens of employees, I feared that my lack of formal education in the areas of business and personnel management would ultimately limit our growth potential. Eric Herrenkohl studied our business and helped us address my three biggest concerns. First, we established a business structure that matches our current size and will grow with us. Second, we implemented long-term career development/retention plans for key employees. Third, we initiated a hiring process that makes use of the latest personnel assessment tools. All have proven effective.”
David Spetnagel, Franchise Owner
Fleet Feet Sports, St. Louis MO
“Things are going very well for us and we doubled our business in 2007 over 2006. My staff is working well as a team and while none of them were perfect matches for the profile, I felt like the testing has helped know who I was hiring and what their strengths and weakness are/would be. This actually is immensely helpful and I couldn't imagine not using your services going forward.”
David Washburn
President
Valcucine Minneapolis