During my time as a manager and a consultant, I have read many excellent CVs and met some brilliant candidates. I’ve also met some arrogant applicants, some understated leaders, and some unfortunate professionals who are not sure where they are…
Screening
3 Questions to Evaluate a Candidate’s Emotional Intelligence
When looking to fill an open position, a lot of factors go into the screening process for the perfect candidate. You want someone who has relevant experience; an acceptable number of years in the field; a solid work history; and,…
Why Going With Your Gut Causes Hiring Mistakes
You’ve likely been told you can’t afford to hire the wrong person. The costs of making a bad hire are many: damage to your reputation, lost opportunities, the expense of replacing a bad hire, and the stress that each of…
The Demand for Degrees Is Screening Out Too Many Candidates
A recruiter’s job has never been easy. And it’s getting harder with the economy producing jobs at a furious pace and lots of competition for available talent. But is it getting unnecessarily more difficult to fill jobs because of an…
How to Screen Out Sexual Harassers During the Hiring Process
Recruiting leaders must realize that they are exposing their firm to “negligent hiring” charges if they fail to do everything possible to prevent the hiring of candidates who later go on to sexually harass. Prevention is key, because once sexual…
‘We Hire Not Just for Skills, But for Culture’
“We’re not just looking for technical skills. We want people who fit.” That’s a familiar refrain. But what does it mean to fit? I asked one company what it means to fit into its culture. Molly Muir, from a company…
AI or IA? Intelligence Augmentation for Recruiting
IBM’s Watson is synonymous with AI. Perhaps IBM should have named it Sherlock. Anyone familiar with the Sherlock Holmes stories knows that Watson wasn’t very bright. But he did have his uses. He was good at collecting and summarizing information,…
Not Hiring Exceptional Candidates Is Extremely Damaging but It’s Preventable
Note: This article is part of a continuing series covering high-impact business practices that recruiting should be doing, but it doesn’t! Losing Exceptional Candidates Is Damaging Your Firm Learning specifically why exceptional candidates were not hired can be added to…
Need Top Performers? Hire Candidates With a Strong Professional Network
Actionable Tips for Hiring Those With Powerful Professional Networks Everyone knows the power of networks. But many hiring managers and recruiters are surprised to learn that the strength of someone’s professional network is also one of the strongest predictors of…
Make Job Shadows Part of the Hiring Process
Finding the right employee for the right job positions an organization to have an appreciating asset. Great employees become more valuable with time. So the true cost of not finding the best aligned individuals through effective employment screening tactics is…
Hiring Software Engineers: Should Round 1 Be a Behavioral Interview, Coding Challenge, or Take-home Assignment?
With the enormous amount of software engineers who are being hired, building a successful hiring process is extremely important. If the hiring process is too long, you can lose a candidate to another company. If it is too technical, you…
Kick-Start Your Firm’s Growth By Hiring Candidates With Game-changer Competencies
This article covers how you can directly accelerate your firm’s growth rate through recruiting. If you’re skeptical about whether that is possible, be aware that data reveals that human capital has a much greater impact on kickstarting a firm’s growth…
3 Must-have Qualities When Hiring Your First Employee
Nothing will make or break your new business more than the first employee you hire. As an entrepreneur just starting out, you’re probably not too sure about what you’re doing when it comes to hiring your employees. Of course, you’re…
How Sales ‘Hunters’ Stalk Their Prey
You buckle into your business-class window seat, primed for a five-hour mental vacation. And then this guy settles in next to you. His wife practices family law, specializing in custody issues; their 11-year-old’s a little ADHD, but made the travel…
The Definitive Action Guide For Minimizing Bias and Increasing Diversity Hires (Part 2 of 2)
This is the second part of a two-part article covering action steps on how to minimize biases that negatively affect diverse recruiting. The first part of this article was published on June 26, 2017. It explained the two types of…
If the Big Guy Gets a Break, Why Can’t ‘We the People?’
Dear U.S. Corporations: If the President of the United States gets a break on meeting the criteria and requirements of the job description — can we give each other a little break too? Pretty much my whole career has been…
Google Jobs API: The Future of Intense Job Poaching?
Google announced its coming release of Google for jobs, after having closed its alpha on its jobs API we were expecting it. Where could it lead us? According to a survey done on 33,000 LinkedIn members globally, virtually everyone (90 percent) would listen…
Survey Says Job Seekers Are Mostly OK Engaging With Chatbots
Job seekers have had to endure the resume blackhole for decades, and it turns out that lack of response from a perspective employer has led to lowered expectations. So low, in fact, that prospects are mostly OK with talking to…
Let’s Get Serious: Culture Fit Matters
There’s a new trend afoot among the “thought leaders” bubbling up: culture fit doesn’t matter, it’s all about values. Focus on hiring for values for retention success. Seriously? It’s hard to take that statement seriously. Values are the reasons behind…
5 Secrets for Recruiting Sales Talent Right Out of College
Why hire sale reps fresh out of college? They’re eager, they’re malleable, they’re affordable, and they have reasonable expectations. Plus they haven’t developed bad habits working someplace else! But let’s face it. Academic achievement is no guarantee of sales talent….