Hiring Tips Podcast

Why do so many interviews fail to assess whether a candidate will be a good fit?”  

Do you need spiky people in your company? Could you use an outlier or two? Someone who is not necessarily going to toe the company line and do only what he is told to do?  

There is a certain ebb and flow to the hiring process. You are selling the business to the prospective employee and she is selling herself to you. If that equation gets too one-sided, and you are spending most of the time doing the selling, then two things can happen:  

What are the benefits to collaborating during the hiring process?

What do we know about moms that would make them a good choice in the workplace? Let’s take a look.

There are essentially two sides to the hiring coin. Side One is the applicant who wants to impress the employer and land that job. Side Two is the employer who wants to impress the applicant and gain his agreement to come on board. Now these two sides may not both be operating at full steam [...]    

A game is played to win. In order to win, individual players blend their skills and their actions with other players. Teams made up of JUST individuals, even those highly talented, often fail against teams composed of people who work hard on working together.    

What can happen if your applicant isn't given "closure" on his request for a job.    

In an earlier hiring tip I mentioned a trip I made to my local Barnes and Nobles bookstore. While there, I looked over the books that were available for both employers and prospective employees. The number of books available on just the subject of résumés was staggering. And, for the most part, these were current [...]    

During the interview process, there are many questions you can ask. The Hiring Tips have provided a good number of these. Here’s another one you’ll find interesting: “Under what circumstances did you ignore or bend company policy?” Your applicant–we’ll call him Frank–may answer, “Oh, there were no circumstances where I did such a thing.” A [...]    

Using LinkedIn to help you hire better staff.    

Digging in and asking what a "job" means to your candidate can be very illuminating.    

When it comes to hiring and holding onto your staff, especially top-notch staff, perks can be a prime consideration.    

There are many types of employee tests available: -- Personality Tests -- Intelligence Tests -- Aptitude Tests    

In an earlier Hiring Tip, I mentioned being in a Barnes and Nobles bookstore. I was checking out the "hiring" section and I noticed there were 80-100 different books on this important subject.    

Integrity is a very interesting concept. I may be old-fashioned, but I believe the subject has taken quite a few hits over the last few decades. I also believe the concepts of right and wrong have been slowly but surely stripped out of our children's education, but that's a discussion for another time and another place.    

In an earlier tip, we discussed the merits of hiring a veteran. In this tip, I'd like to discuss another "group" that could be valuable to you. Athletes.    

We've touched on this subject in other tips, but have not addressed it directly. Let's do so here.    

We’ve all made mistakes. Some of us have made more than the next person. The focus of this tip is not on how many mistakes one applicant has made. The focus is on how did he deal with those moments in time. Let’s look at this as if there are two very different ends of [...]    

When someone has left a job and is now applying for a job with you, they usually want to know exactly what the pay arrangements will be. Even someone brand new to the job market may want the full scoop on pay.