Hiring Process

We all occasionally see something stupid, poke our friends and say, “Check-out that dipstick. How dumb can you get?” Some movies even make … Read more

So after a good two years now with the economy as unreliable as the A/C guy, things look better. Jobs are opening up, and corporations and staffing firms … Read more

Job boards could be more effective if they prevented unqualified candidates from ever applying for an open job in the first place. Here’s one idea on … Read more

Increasing numbers of companies are using online and automated staffing tools to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their processes for hiring … Read more

As most of you know, I don’t hide my beliefs too well. For example, in recent articles I’ve been lambasting job boards as being the number one … Read more

I recently had the privilege of working with a corporate staffing director blessed with unusual wisdom (he hired me to solve a problem). He worked in a … Read more

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” ó Yogi Berra In the thoughts that follow, one fork in the road leads to some minor … Read more

Hiring 2.0 is the operating system for the next generation of hiring tools. The objective of Hiring 2.0 is to establish the standards for making hiring top … Read more

So, you’re a sales manager… You carefully, and personally, screen every sales applicant. Read more

If everyone stopped using job boards to find candidates, everything would start to improve within one week. This is one of those things that can jump start … Read more

When interviewing candidates, most hiring managers look for specific types of experience as well as the number of years of experience a candidate possesses … Read more

The goal of the hiring revolution is nothing less than making hiring top talent a systematic business process. Everything else is secondary ó … Read more

The systematic hiring of top people is the primary goal and mission of the hiring revolution. Read last week’s article if you need any proof as to … Read more

A few weeks ago I wrote about how work samples are one of the most accurate skill measurement tools, but among the least used. In response, I received … Read more

Are our hiring processes built upon a pillar of salt? I was thinking about this while stuck in L.A. traffic recently, and it became clear to me that … Read more

In our last article (Do Online Pre-Screening Tools Really Work?) we discussed the growing use of pre-screening tools and identified eight “half … Read more

After covering some of the main tenets of Six Sigma in previous articles in this series, I am going to throw another term at you: Lean. You might be … Read more

As many of you know, I advocate (and use) a policy of sourcing that emphasizes semi-candidates. Semi-candidates are either semi-active candidates who look … Read more

This article will take you down a slightly different path. Instead of the thinking of yourself as a hiring practitioner, become a customer. Now, … Read more