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Best Practices for Insurance Recruiting, Retention, and Hiring

Retaining good employees in the insurance business can be a challenge. This guide breaks down the ways you can find better talent and get them to...

Why Background Checks Are Important for Small Businesses

Background checks can help you make reliable, trustworthy hires the first time and grow your business the right way. That’s why WizeHire has pa...

Top 4 Recruiting Strategies to Find Talent in a Tough Job Market

When hiring is harder than ever, here are the recruiting strategies you need to fill your talent pipeline and build your team faster.

Retaining the Next Generation of Insurance Talent

Increasing employee retention has a direct connection to increasing your agency's profits. Learn how you can retain new insurance workers to grow...

Top 3 Ways to Retain Automotive Talent

Across the country, car dealerships are struggling to keep up with demand as they operate with a shrinking staff:

Recruiting Basics for Entrepreneurs

If you're too caught up in the busyness of doing business, it's time to hire some help. Here's some recruiting basics for entrepreneurs in 10 eas...

Should You Put Salary in Your Job Ad?

People are calling 2022 the year of pay transparency. From the Senate floor to social media, people are demanding more open conversations about s...

Top 4 Housekeeper Recruiting Strategies Hotel Managers Swear By

Use these four proven strategies to recruit reliable housekeepers and earn 5-star reviews from your guests.

How to Write Job Titles that Attract Top Talent

Find out the job title best practices we've learned from helping over 6,000 small businesses to get better candidates from top job boards.

Building an Employee Referral Program

Employee referral programs offer an ideal hiring solution with proven results: increased candidate quality, lower recruitment costs, shorter time...

Navigating the Legal Recruiting Landscape: Simple Strategies To Hire Right The First Time

The legal recruiting landscape has become more unpredictable in recent years. Making the task of finding qualified candidates a real challenge.

Q&A: What’s the Ideal DISC Profile for an Inside Sales Agent?

How do you know you're hiring a good Inside Sales Agent? Using DISC when hiring helps you piece together a more complete 'candidate puzzle.'

Food Services: Use New Technology to Find and Keep Great Employees

As the food service industry slowly returns to normal operations, the staffing shortages faced by restaurants at the height of the pandemic and a...

Five Proven Buyer’s Agent Recruiting Strategies Used by Millionaire Real Estate Teams

Learn how actual real estate teams get outstanding results with these 5 recruiting strategies to find licensed and unlicensed talent.

5 Unique Ways to Attract Qualified Food Services Talent

Attracting and retaining quality talent has been challenging for the food service industry since the Great Resignation began. The industry has be...

Why You Should Consider Sales Talent For Your Real Estate Team

Expanding your search to top sales talent—not just licensed real estate professionals—significantly speeds up hiring of buyer's agents.

Learn to Delegate to Your Admin Like Monica Reynolds

"If it doesn't have dollar signs attached to it, I delegate it", and you should, too!

Losing Business? 💸 It’s Time to Hire an Admin

Hiring an Assistant helped Monica Reynolds build her business. It will work for you, too!

Monica Reynolds Hired an Admin and 2x Her Real Estate Business

Monica Reynolds tripled her real estate business when she brought on her first Admin. Is it your turn?

Who Will 2X Your Real Estate Sales: Fresh Talent or Proven Agents?

As a Mega Agent, your single greatest investment is hiring fresh talent that's about to become great talent.

Don’t Hire Licensed Agents?!?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of advertising for licensed agents as opposed to those with no license but sales experience?

How To Find An Administrative Assistant Who Will Make You 3X Better

A good Administrative Assistant can be the difference between your work days feeling like chaos or clockwork. Hiring smart is the key.

Can 2 DISC Profiles Succeed as Buyers Agents?

Hunter-type Buyers Agents love to find their own leads, while Helper-type Buyers Agents prefer to nurture other's leads. Which are on your team?

The Ideal DISC Profile for Listing Agents

Looking for a Listing Agent for your team? Let DISC tell you if you're hiring the right person.

Building a Real Estate Agency? Always Be Recruiting

Lars Hedenborg made a mistake over and over again until he learned the importance of three simple words: Always Be Recruiting.

How To Recruit More Real Estate Agents Using 6 Core Sources

To scale your business, you need to become a recruiting master. Here are 6 sources to recruit more real estate sales talent used by agents on top...

3 Approaches to Recruit Top Talent

These 3 candidate assessment approaches help you to classify talent and demonstrate a method for finding top candidates to fill your positions.

The Ultimate Guide To Writing A Great Job Description

Learn the difference between a job ad and a job description. Job descriptions are internal documents outlining the ideal candidate.

How to Screen Job Candidates and Find the Right Hire

Learn to find the right hire by filtering your candidates through hiring stages that determine if candidates are a good job fit.

How to Write a Job Ad That Stands Out From the Competition

Learn the difference between a job ad and a job description. Job ads are external documents designed to market the job to your ideal candidate.

How An Employer Value Proposition Helps You Sell Candidates

An Employer Value Proposition helps you 'sell' your workplace to candidates. Weave your EVP into all of your recruiting capital.

2 Shortcuts To Hiring Talented Buyer’s Agents

If you're in a crunch to find a buyer's agent, we recommend looking for an inside sales agent or an outside sales professional.

4 Tips To Hire The Best Buyer’s Agent For Your Team

A buyer's agent can secure appointments, negotiate offers, and more so you can focus on the high-level, strategic aspects of lead generation.

How To Hire Your First Transaction Coordinator

With the addition of a great transaction coordinator, you have more time to focus on the next sale instead of worrying about paperwork.

Monica Reynolds on When to Hire an Admin

When's the right time to hire a real estate admin? If you're printing off pre-list packets at 11:00 at night and not taking vacations, it's time.

Boost Real Estate Job Ad SEO In 6 Easy Steps

Why is job ad SEO important? Proper SEO ensures you'll get the attention of top talent. Follow these 6 tips to attract the right applicants.

Gary Keller’s Secret for Finding the Best Agents

Gary Keller shares 4 secrets for hiring the best agents to help you grow. Follow these tips to find the best sales talent every time you hire!

Monica Reynolds’ Secret for Real Estate Success

Monica Reynolds believes success in real estate comes from hiring great admins. It's time you "leverage yourself with talent and a team."

Gary Keller’s Secrets to Building Successful Real Estate Teams

Recruit the right talent and achieve success in real estate. Here are Gary Keller's tips on how hiring right can help you 2x your business.

2 Types of Buyers Agents… Who Knew?

Do you Buyers Agents prospect for their own leads or do you provide them? Your answer guides the type of Buyers Agents you should be hiring.

Inside Sales Agent (ISA): Why Your Real Estate Team Needed One Yesterday

Want to grow your business? With the right systems a dedicated ISA can help teams add 70 more transactions a year.

Hiring 101: How To Hire Top Talent

It's hard to find the perfect applicant. Applying these 6 simple tips will help you attract not just any talent, but the right talent!

What Is DISC Theory and Why It Matters Before You Hire

Learn more about the DISC profile so you can become more effective in several key areas of your life such as communication skills, goal achieveme...

Drowning in Paperwork? Time for a Transaction Coordinator

Why is a Transaction Coordinator important to the success of a real estate agency? Because they LOVE to do what you LOATHE to do!

What Makes a Successful Inside Sales Agent (ISA)?

Top performing ISA's are behavioral hybrids. They blend the behaviors of a hunter/gatherer salesperson and a consultative salesperson.

What Makes A Great Real Estate Executive?

What are the skills needed to run a successful real estate agency? How do you know if you have what it takes and if you're ready to lead?

Lead Real Estate Agents: What Makes Them Tick?

If you're seeking successful lead agents, look for hunter/gatherer salespeople who love competition and like to be in charge of the sale.

The How and Why of Human Performance – Part I

When it comes to your personality, there are two specific aspects to understand. I like to talk about the How and Why of human performance.

The How and Why of Human Performance – Part 2

In PART ONE of this blog we discussed the How part of the “How and Why of Human Performance.” Now let’s examine the Why portion.

7 Tips to Writing Job Ads That Will Elicit Stellar Hires

Tip: If your recruiting sucks, check your job description. Most people fail to appreciate the role a strong job description plays in hiring.

Job Posting 101: How To Find Top Talent

Job posting 101, by WizeHire. These resources are designed to help real estate professionals make smarter hires and keep them engaged.

Adapting Your Natural Behavioral Style or… MacGyver Wasn’t Real

Many people falsely assume that regardless of their natural behavioral style, they can do all sorts of tasks by simply adapting their behavior.

Know The Ultimate Buyers Agents DISC Profile And Hire Buyers Agents That Sell

Recently WizeHire conducted a research study seeking the natural traits and strengths of top performing real estate buyers agents.

The Rise of Specialization in Real Estate

Ever wonder why one real estate agent completely rocks it yet another fails miserably? Specialization in real estate holds the key.

Candidates Lie: 4 Tips To Get To The Truth

Have you ever been lied to during an interview? If your answer is "No," then odds are you have been lied to. Use these tips to get to the truth.

6 Tips For Employer Interviewing Best Practices

Here are 6 proven interviewing best practices to keep in mind. They will help you match applicants to the ideal natural talents for the job.

Interview Invitation Template

This interview invitation template can be used for any industry, position and applicant. Feel free to customize it to your needs.

Pros and Cons of Virtual Interviews in the Food Services Industry

Virtual interviews, once considered a necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic, is now a regular, and very effective, interview technique for the f...

Interview Invitation : 2nd Interview

After you've conducted a first interview with candidates and you want to invite them to a second round, use this letter template.

Rejection Letter Template

This sample rejection letter can be quickly customized to include why a candidate is no longer in the running for your open position.

How To Create A Compensation Philosophy Statement

A compensation philosophy statement documents why a company pays employees a certain way which helps attract, retain and motivate them.

Onboarding: First Day Reminder Template

When a new employee is joining your company, use this First Day Reminder Template to share information on what to expect the first day.

How Restaurants Can Reduce Candidate Ghosting

The restaurant industry lost 2.4 million employees during the pandemic and still struggles to find reliable employees.  What’s worse, up to 8...

Tips for Hiring New Talent in the Home Services Industry

The home services industry is booming. A recent analysis of skilled trade jobs by PeopleReady Skilled Trades shows: 2.8 million unique job postin...

How to Attract and Hire Next Gen Talent in the Auto Industry

It can be challenging for automotive businesses to find and hire young talent. However, there are some things that automotive businesses can do t...

Coach or Consultant: How to Make the Right Choice for Your Business

As a successful business owner, you may face new challenges going from a place of stability to sustainable and scalable growth. You might be:

Bridging the Gap: Positioning Trade Jobs as Tech Jobs to Attract Next-Gen Talent

The number of trade workers from younger generations is getting smaller. Many do not consider skilled trades as career options and this leaves bu...

Natural Talents: How Many Hats Must You Wear?

It's time to capitalize on your strengths and minimize your weaknesses... so get over it, get real and let's get to work!

How to Hire The Right Assistant

Determine which kind of assistant you need: executive or administrative. Find out how to drive sales and remove busywork from your day.

Preboarding Letter Template

After candidates return a signed offer letter, use this Preboarding Letter Template to confirm a start date and get new hire paperwork started.

Background Check Release Form

As part of your qualification process for new employees, you may want to conduct a background check. Use this form to secure their permission.

Top 3 Hiring Challenges in the Automotive Industry

The automotive industry is one of the top sectors facing a talent crisis. In April, it was reported that the number of job vacancies in the autom...

How to Find 5-Star Hospitality Talent in a Tough Hiring Market

The hospitality industry is facing a talent crisis. Right now, leisure and hospitality workers are quitting at the highest rates of any industry,...

Navigating the Legal Recruiting Landscape: Simple Strategies To Hire Right The First Time

The legal recruiting landscape has become more unpredictable in recent years. Making the task of finding qualified candidates a real challenge.

How to Retain Fitness Talent in 2023

Dramatic shifts in the perceptions of fitness industry careers have caused many to retire early or seek opportunities more aligned with their per...

Hospitality Adds Most Jobs of Any Industry in January 2023

The hospitality industry hired the most new employees of any industry in the month of January 2023. This is huge news for an industry that was hi...

Inside Sales Agents (ISA): Hiring for a 5x ROI

An Inside Sales Agent is key to success for new Real Estate Teams. The trick is finding the right talent and training them for greatness.

Why Your New Year Hiring Plan Starts in December

December is the new January for small business recruiting and hiring Small business owners are missing a big opportunity to advertise jobs, recr...

Why Team Leaders Should Hire an Inside Sales Agent

An Inside Sales Agent (ISA) is a lead conversion guru who can save time and maximize your real estate team's productivity.

Top 4 Reasons Why You Should Hire A Real Estate Showing Assistant

Too many buyer leads in your pipeline to manage? Hiring a real estate showing assistant can help you build upon your current success.

How to Find an Underwriter in the Midst of a Mortgage Refinancing Surge

Learn why the 2019 refinancing boom challenges mortgage lenders to grow quickly, creating opportunities for some lenders and underwriters.

Study On Real Estate Team Expansion Markets

Learn from our real estate hiring study how smaller communities are becoming the nation’s hottest housing markets and creating new opportunitie...

50 Top Opportunity Markets For Building Real Estate Teams in 2019

Real estate team expansion can happen anywhere, but you can increase your odds of expansion success if you focus on areas ripe for the taking.

New Team Member Announcement Template

When a new employee is joining your company, use this New Employee Announcement Template to notify and excite your team about the new arrival.

The Top 10 Markets To Build Your Real Estate Team

WizeHire determines which markets are the best areas for building your real estate team and why these areas are strong choices.

The Most Wonderful Time Of Year To Hire Buyer’s Agents

Using our data-driven insights, you can adjust your hiring expectations and processes to find the best buyer’s agents for your team.

Job Offer Letter

Creating and sending a high-quality job offer letter is easy with this template. It's easily customized to your unique situation.

Are You Throwing Away $100/hr?

Want to know how you can save $100 an hour AND not have to do something you really don't enjoy? Got 2 minutes?

Real Estate Success: Where is it Hiding?

How is it possible to achieve real estate success when one key ingredient is Hiding?

The Ultimate Guide To Writing A Great Job Description

Learn the difference between a job ad and a job description. Job descriptions are internal documents outlining the ideal candidate.

New Hire Email Account Created Template

A great way you can easily communicate company information and paperwork prior to a new hire's start date is setting up their email account.

The New Hire Checklist: How To Onboard Employees The Right Way

Set your new hire up for success by giving them a proper onboarding. Save time with our templates and an employee onboarding checklist.

How To Write A Job Offer Letter

Don't waste time when you're ready to hire! With templates and guidance, you can quickly send offer letters that drive candidates to accept.

How Daily Pay Apps Help Your Restaurant Secure Better Talent

Competition between restaurant employers to fill open roles has left general restaurant and QSR workers with a greater variety of options to choo...

How To Train Your Real Estate ISA

If you want your ISAs to do their best work on your real estate team, you’ve got to provide a strong foundation for their performance through o...

Introducing Customizable Career Pages

We're so excited to tell you about our new feature, which allows you to quickly build a high-quality, customized career page in a few minutes.

Top Restaurant Tips – Modern Restaurant Management

The Hiring Platform You Need – Torsion Talk Podcast (S8: E14)

Would You Hire Formerly Incarcerated Individuals? – HRD America

Nothing Quiet on the Talent Front in 2023 – HR Dive

“Employees will have questions about the health of the business…it’s important to invite them to share their concerns and use it as an oppo...

The 3 Steps to Build a Sustainable Workforce for the Insurance Industry – Insurance News Net

“To attract younger talent, the industry must change the way it operates in three key areas to reverse these trends and build a sustainable wor...

How to Build Your Hospitality Team With Next-Generation Talent – Hospitality Tech

“Today’s ambitious, educated, and socially conscious workers want job stability and long-term opportunities. But they also need a clearly def...

The Future of Hiring for the Automotive Industry – Motor

“By evaluating their current hiring and retention strategies, dealerships can spark interest for the next generation of technicians and service...

Is There Too Much Leeway in New York City’s ‘Good Faith’ Pay Transparency Law? – Worklife

“It’s one more hat for a small business owner to wear…Now we need to think about compensation banding, levels, promotions and how to do tha...

How Small Businesses Can Compete for Talent in a Tight Market – Small Business Currents

“By evaluating dated recruiting strategies, redefining company culture, and leveraging HR technology, small business owners can address their u...

Hiring for Success – National Oil and Lube News

“Job seekers today are looking for opportunities to grow in their careers and mentors to guide them,” [...] ”If they see that their growth ...

Insurance Execs and Others Weigh in on the Industry’s Critical Talent Gap – Insurance News Net

“Both millennials and Gen Zers want to work for organizations with strong values and purpose. Flexible work arrangements and hybrid work models...

Storytelling About WizeHire With Sid Upadhyay – Use Case Podcast

“By giving small businesses these advantages, they can compete for talent that has always been there, but was inaccessible in many ways.”

Small Biz Economy ‘Recovering’ & Hiring Still an Issue, WizeHire Shares Retention, Recruitment Tips – Repairer Driven News

“...Employers are thinking outside of the box when they don’t have the financial means, such as wage transparency, more flexible hours, and e...

Why is Gen-Z Romanticizing the Return to Office? – Essence

WizeHire Raises $30M Series B Led by Tiger Global to Help Small Businesses Win Talent and Grow

WizeHire named one of Inc’s 2021 Best Workplaces

WizeHire was selected from thousands of employers as a business that exceptionally supported employees during a turbulent year.

WizeHire Announces Initiative to Help Small Businesses Access Thousands of Refundable Tax Credit Dollars When they Hire

WizeHire is helping small businesses rebound by making it fast and easy to claim thousands of dollars in refundable tax credits when they hire.

WizeHire Selected by Choice Hotels International to Become a Qualified Vendor for Hyper-Personalized Hiring

WizeHire has been selected by Choice Hotels International as a Qualified Vendor to bring thousands of hoteliers nationwide a better way to hire.

WizeHire Closes $7.5M Series A Round Led by Amplo and Mercury to Transform How Small Businesses Hire

WizeHire has raised our first round of financing, a 7.5M Series A to help make hiring easier and more personalized for small businesses.

Introducing Free Employment Tax Credit Screening! 🎉

Earlier this week, we launched Free Continued Dashboard Access to all customers with a paused subscription.

WizeHire Makes 2020 Inc 5000 List

WizeHire ranks 756 on the 2020 Inc. 5000 list with 3 year growth rate of 628.2%.

Small Business Owner’s Guide for Relief Loans – Tips from WizeHire

This page provides regularly updated information on the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)

Announcing Continued Access to Your WizeHire Dashboard

Earlier this week, we launched Free Continued Dashboard Access to all customers with a paused subscription.

New Look. Same Mission. Bigger Vision.

We recently launched a friendlier website, simpler software, and expanded our vision to help you improve your entire hiring process.

4 Reasons For Corporate Giving & 20 Ideas How to Start

Get creative in your corporate giving. Your employees will see you in a different light and be healthier, happier and more dedicated.

The Future of Real Estate is Teams

Are you prepared to lead a real estate team or would you prefer to follow another agent's lead? In 3-5 years, you may have to make that choice.

Team Development and Retaining Top Talent During an Industry Slowdown

WizeHire talks with Tim Hooper + team to discuss team development and retaining top talent during an industry slowdown.

Hatch 2023 Best Hiring Practices Webinar Recap

WizeHire caught up with Hatch Coach, Robby T, to discuss best hiring practices for the 2023 real estate market.

Hiring Best Practices Using DISC+ Assessments

WizeHire hiring coach, Patrick Guerra and Erik Hatch, coach and founder of Hatch Coaching share the benefits of using WizeHire’s DISC+ assessme...

Hiring Best Practices in the Health & Wellness Sector

WizeHire Hiring coaches Patrick Guerra and Laura Gutierrez share hiring best practices in the health and wellness industry with Kendall Hagensen ...

Determining Your Value to Potential Candidates

In this webinar, WizeHire’s Head of Partnerships Aidan Weinrib is joined by Tom Ferry coaches Alicia Soekawa and Yvonne Arnold to discuss how t...

Recruiting, hiring, and building effective real estate teams

WizeHire co-founder Jay Niblick and Jeff Cohn from Elite Real Estate Systems discuss how the different personalities of real estate team members ...

Proven recruiting strategies for real estate teams

WizeHire shares proven recruiting strategies with Tom Ferry real estate coach, Doug Hannan.

How to decipher candidates’ DISC+ profiles

A deep dive into DISC+ personality assessments with Next Level Loan Officers to help mortgage companies hire the right candidates.

What prevents real estate entrepreneurs from growing their business?

WizeHire chats with Rick Cheever from Tom Ferry to highlight what's holding real estate pros back from growing their business.

Positioning your real estate company to hire in a tough climate

WizeHire sits down with real estate experts to discuss how to attract and hire top quality industry talent in a tough job market.

Who to hire when: How to grow your real estate team

In this webinar, Erik Hatch of Hatch Coaching, reveals who to hire for your real estate team, and exactly when to do it.

How hiring an admin can increase top-line revenue

In this webinar, real estate coach, Denise from Workman Success Systems, will share how admins grow top-line revenue and improve operations.