Companies have a tradition of luring away top executive talent from the competition. In sports free agency has changed the entire landscape of professional athletics as teams constantly fight for talent. The talent wars are now reaching the trenches and companies are taking off the gloves and aggressively going after top talent at all levels regardless of who they are currently employed by.

Because employees now know they are potential free agents, they are looking for the best package, not just more money. Who are the people you would hate to lose? It’s time to use these five best practices for retaining your top talent so they aren’t as eager to see if the money is greener on the other side of the fence.

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You’ve sent your resume everywhere, you’ve tweaked it so that
it fits each position you’ve applied for and finally someone
thinks you’re a fit, at least enough to call you in for an
interview. The people doing the interview however are not going
to be professional interviewers but people working for the
company that want to get as much information about you as
possible. It will be your job to make that information positive
and in your favor.

Typically your interviewers will share a list of interview
questions that has been put together by students and faculty at
business schools and universities. The good thing is that there
are many of these lists that are all just about the same, and you
can find them on the Internet.

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