In my last article, we focused on why professionals can seldom use home-grown competency lists. In this article, we’ll focus on fixing chronic … Read more
Good Interviewing Starts With Knowing the Answers, Not With Asking Questions
It hit me like a snowstorm this week: The problem with interview training is that too much time is spent on learning to ask questions, rather than knowing … Read more
Incorporating Organizational Competencies Into Hiring
Every so often I get asked to recommend a hiring tool that meets some very simple criteria: Incorporates existing company competencies Read more
Recruiting Lessons from the iPod
Why is the iPod such a phenomenon? It’s not because it looks neat or works well. Those things are just a small part of it. The real reason it’s … Read more
How to Eliminate the Three Biggest Hiring Errors
A common New Year’s resolution for recruiters has something to do with becoming better at recruiting. My New Year’s resolution for 2005 is to … Read more
A New Year’s Greeting to the EEOC
It seems like the HR world is separated into two groups: those who know and follow the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures and those who … Read more
How to Develop a Capture Strategy
Did you ever notice that, when a candidate accepts an offer, all of the people who even breathed the same air as the candidate pat themselves on the back, … Read more
Clarify Expectations And Follow Up With Those Tough Questions
To get people to do what we want them to do, we need to give a clear understanding about how we work and ensure that the client and candidate are willing … Read more
Indirect Recruiting – It’s All About Their Comfort Zone
Over the last month, I have been contacted by several Recruiters who are utilizing the indirect recruiting approach to gaining referrals. Each of them … Read more
How to Recruit and Hire Passive Candidates
Recruiting active candidates is easy: you post an ad, sort through the results, make a call or two, interview, select, and send out an offer. The problem … Read more