Hiring Process

[Note: Don’t forget my Defend Your Desktop ATS survey today, Friday, March 19, 2004, at 4 p.m. EST (1 p.m. PST). I’ll be revealing the names of … Read more

Question: What are some common symptoms of bad hiring and promotion practices? Answer: Turnover, low productivity, and high training expense. It is really … Read more

Offshoring has become a major topic of conversation lately as more and more firms look to leverage the economic benefits of lower labor costs and … Read more

[Note: Don’t forget to defend you desktop. You can now help design the next generation ATS system. Take my survey and determine which features are … Read more

[NOTE: This is an interactive article that includes an online survey. Visit my Applicant Tracking System Top Features Survey and cast your vote now on the … Read more

I had a dream last night. It went something like this: I was in a huge room filled with groups of people having heated discussions. “Red chicken … Read more

“Each year China produces as many engineers and scientists as the United States does ó and while its numbers are going up, America’s are … Read more

After I became a graduate student for the second time, I learned that Maslow’s “hierarchy of needs” was thoroughly unproven as a … Read more

[Note: Last week, we held a free conference call for ERE members a few hours after my article appeared. If you didn’t attend, you missed a great … Read more

This is big. This is the first multi-multimedia article on the performance evaluation interview (PEI) process ever published on ERE, or maybe anywhere else … Read more

Can you name one thing that is as misunderstood as the benefits of hiring highly skilled people? I am not talking about finding and screening people. I am … Read more

It’s important to segregate problems associated with implementing a systematic approach for hiring top talent into two different groups. The first … Read more

“Well, Beth, I just don’t know. I just didn’t get that gut feeling about the candidate,” the hiring manager said. I teach … Read more

In his book, Only the Paranoid Survive, Intel’s Andrew Grove describes the importance of “strategic inflection points” as both historical … Read more

Being in the job-skill testing business, I see many organizations engaging in self-destructive employment behavior. There are always small groups of hiring … Read more

No one would disagree that hiring top people needs to become a more consistent and systematic business process. Too much time is wasted by too many … Read more

To: The Recruiting Department From: The CEO Date: 1/1/2005 I am immensely proud of the work done in 2004 by each and every member of our company’s … Read more

All too often, exit interviews only provide a format for dumping bad feelings, when they should be an opportunity to gather the most honest feedback an … Read more

Now through the end of the year, ERE will be re-running some of the most popular articles from 2003. This article was originally published on June 2, 2003. … Read more