Ira Wolfe

Hiring and Recruiting Guru, best-selling author, columnist, and business blogger

We live in interesting times. Business models, strategic plans, and even previously proven practices are being disrupted at an accelerating pace. At the center of this disruption is recruiting. While many organizations are struggling to find and retain enough qualified workers, solutions do exist. And no one understands the complexity of the labor markets and how small business can reach and engage more qualified candidates than Ira S Wolfe.

Ira is a nationally recognized thought leader on hiring, recruiting, pre-hire assessments, and workforce trends who has taken the uncertainty and confusion out of hiring and promoting employees. With a practical, down-to-earth-easy-to-implement approach, he deftly simplifies the complexities of recruiting, screening, and selecting qualified candidates. As a result, Ira has helped for over 20 years hundreds of executives, small business owners, recruiters, hiring managers, and other consultants reach, attract, hire, and retain top performing employees, from the custodian to the CEO.

Wolfe is president of Success Performance Solutions, a pre-employment and leadership consulting firm he founded in 1996. Ira is the author of the books Geeks, Geezers, and Googlization: How to Manage the Unprecedented Convergence of the Wired, the Tired, and Technology in the Workplace, The Perfect Labor Storm 2.0, The Perfect Labor Storm Fact Book, Understanding Business Values and Motivators, and Coming Job Boom. He is a columnist for Business2BusinessMagazine,Huffington Post, and several business journals. He's been featured recently in articles in INC Magazine, Forbes, Business Week, NFIB, Inc., Intuit Small Business and Fox Business as well as contributing to industry and regional publications and radio/TV interviews.