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Mark Murphy

Mark Murphy is the CEO of Leadership IQ and a New York Times bestselling author. His books include Hiring For Attitude, Hundred Percenters, HARD Goals, and Managing Narcissists, Blamers, Dramatics and More. Mark’s groundbreaking leadership studies have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and U.S. News & World Report. Mark has also appeared on CNN, NPR, CBS News Sunday Morning, and ABC’s 20/20. He’s trained leaders at the United Nations, Harvard Business School, Microsoft, Mastercard, and hundreds more.

The Most Important Interview Question When Hiring Leaders

Mark MurphyMay 10, 2022May 9, 2022

We all know that lots of employees are burned out and disengaged. A Leadership IQ study found that only 25% of leaders feel that their employees are … Read more

Recruiters Have a Surprisingly Big Impact on Employee Engagement

Mark MurphyApril 27, 2022April 25, 2022

When people think about the roles most responsible for employee engagement, HR usually tops the list, followed by senior executives and people managers. … Read more

How Most Companies Mess Up Hiring for Values

Mark MurphyApril 12, 2022April 12, 2022

In an ideal world, if your company hires people who perfectly fit your corporate values, you should have a crop of high performers perfectly aligned with … Read more

How to Solve Disagreements Over Whether to Hire a Candidate

Mark MurphyMarch 30, 2022March 30, 2022

Some candidates are instant and undisputed rejections for every member of the hiring team. Just as there are those who are obvious and unanimous … Read more

The Most Important Question to Ask Candidates for Leadership Roles

Mark MurphyMarch 16, 2022March 13, 2022

When hiring for leadership roles, most companies emphasize skills like whether the leader can hit financial and operational targets, grow revenue, manage … Read more

Hiring Managers Look to Wrong Predictors of Success

Mark MurphyMarch 2, 2022February 28, 2022

Most leaders think they’ve got a pretty good eye for talent and can select candidates who’ll fit their culture, but the data just doesn’t … Read more

Hiring Practices Are Frighteningly Inconsistent in Most Companies

Mark MurphyFebruary 17, 2022February 16, 2022

If you were to eavesdrop on a dozen job interviews in your company, do you think you’d hear the same interview questions being asked? Would the interviews … Read more

You Must Include This Sentence in Your Job Posts

Mark MurphyJanuary 31, 2022

Why would a high-performer candidate want to work for your organization? Is it money or other benefits? Is it an exciting growth opportunity? Or is it that … Read more

These Are the Worst Ways to Begin a Job Post

Mark MurphyJanuary 25, 2022January 24, 2022

Have you ever visited a website, read one or two sentences, lost interest, and left? If you have, then you should understand how most candidates approach … Read more

¾ of Employers Fail to Seek Candidate Feedback

Mark MurphyJanuary 12, 2022January 10, 2022

I don’t know if your candidates’ experience is great or terrible. And you might not know either. Research shows that only 26% of companies are … Read more

How to Get Candidates to Open Up About Their Mistakes

Mark MurphyJanuary 4, 2022January 3, 2022

Everyone will make a mistake at some point. The question isn’t whether someone will make a mistake but rather whether they can admit, and learn from, that … Read more

How to Hire People Who Can Survive the Worst Parts of Your Company

Mark MurphyDecember 15, 2021December 13, 2021

What’s the worst part about working at your company? Is it a lack of growth and development opportunities? Or perhaps impossible deadlines? Or ambiguous … Read more

Why (and How) to Hire Candidates Who Are Forgiving

Mark MurphyNovember 30, 2021November 29, 2021

Let’s be honest. Your company and its leaders are going to make mistakes. Your executives will initiate an ill-considered change effort, managers … Read more

How to Check If Recruiters and Hiring Managers Are Out of Sync

Mark MurphyNovember 2, 2021November 1, 2021

It’s often taken for granted that an organization’s recruiting function and its hiring managers are on the same page in terms of who should (or … Read more

Many Employees Don’t Believe They’d Survive Their Employer’s Current Hiring Process

Mark MurphyOctober 21, 2021October 19, 2021

We’ve all read the numbers about the current state of hiring shortages. And while most of the discussion has focused on important macro issues like … Read more

Here’s Why You’re Ignoring Signs That Your New Hires Might Fail

Mark MurphyOctober 13, 2021October 11, 2021

A lot of your new hires aren’t going to become successful employees — the study “Why New Hires Fail” showed that 46% of new hires will fail. And if we’re … Read more

Watch Out for These Words That Candidates Say During Interviews

Mark MurphyAugust 27, 2021August 27, 2021

We all know that someone’s personality is ultimately reflected in their language. And research has found that one’s language can predict depression, … Read more

The Best Interview Question to Gauge Burnout Among Candidates

Mark MurphyAugust 19, 2021August 19, 2021

If you haven’t noticed, employee burnout is at drastically high levels. And when you’re hiring new people to join your company, you’d ideally … Read more

3 Steps to Make Video Interviews More Revealing and Less Awkward

Mark MurphyAugust 4, 2021August 3, 2021

As an interviewer, your primary goal is to reveal what candidates are actually like and get beyond all their canned responses and interview scripts. If … Read more

Solving Candidate Ghosting With Micro-Commitments

Mark MurphyJuly 28, 2021July 26, 2021

It’s likely true that candidate ghosting is higher than it’s been in a while. But we’re not going to waste our time blaming the pandemic or tight labor … Read more