Interviews or Reference Checks?
Where should you focus your recruiting efforts if you want to find out more about a job candidate?
Tag: assessment
Critical Interviewing Basics
In yesterday’s Advisor, we gave some tips on how to get an interview started on the right foot and how to present the organization to the applicant during the interview. Today we’ll provide some more tips, this time focusing on the next parts of the interview: learning about the applicant and closing the interview.
Interviewing 101
Interviewing potential new employees can be exciting and overwhelming. It represents hope and opportunity, but there are also plenty of legal pitfalls to avoid, so it’s important to have a plan before you get started.
Making the Most of Personality Tests
One of the toughest decisions an HR professional has to make is who to hire. You probably have at least one story of a candidate who aced the interview and had great credentials but bombed in whatever job he or she was hired to perform. Hiring decisions can be stressful not just from an economics […]
Looking for Leaders
Are you hiring managers, when what you really want are leaders?
Why You Want to Hire People Who Are Curious
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it has built many a great company. Those who dare ask “why” have the potential to influence everything from day-to-day operations to product development and more.
Not Quite Qualified
You’ve found a job candidate who has some of the qualifications for the job. Should you take a chance and hire the person? Or should you keep looking?
Diversity of Thought
Are you drawn to job candidates who remind you … of yourself? While people often seek like-minded individuals as friends, the workplace should not reflect this kind of preference.
Hire Them Fast, but Well
So you have to hire a ton of new people, and you need it done yesterday. What do you do? Same thing you did last time? Today we’ll hear from Adam Ochstein, founder and CEO of StratEx, on how to change things up in order to hire quickly and well.
Strengths and Weaknesses
What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses? Yawn.