GEAPS Exchange 2025: The Four Pillars of Effective Hiring
Session Description
Eighty percent of employee turnover is due to bad hiring decisions: a failure often caused by focusing on experience rather than analyzing the best indicators of future performance on your team. This session will teach you the four primary components of hiring the right employee for your team, which are easily overlooked in a challenging and experience-driven market. Companies that are often frustrated when new employees fail to meet their expectations may be overlooking a few simple solutions. Join us to learn the steps you can take in the hiring process to avoid that frustration and increase your odds of a successful hire, including a simple exercise that will reduce your hiring risks.
Meet The Speaker
Mark Waschek, president of Ag1Source, is an accomplished professional in the agricultural talent industry. Since joining Ag1Source in 2006, he has established himself as a leader and trusted partner for agricultural job seekers and organizations across the United States and Canada. Waschek’s talent management experience extends to a wide range of companies, from small family businesses to Fortune 100 companies and roles ranging from sales to CEO. Within this sector, he has successfully assisted businesses in finding talent for critical positions or consulted to help them improve their hiring practices and talent management strategies.
In addition to his recruitment and consulting work Waschek has been an active contributer to CropLife Magazine since 2008 with his talent management and human resource-based insights.