Establishing Trust: The True Beauty of Video Interviewing!
If you are in sales I am sure you have heard the mantra that people buy from people they like. Successful selling is not always a matter of superior features and benefits but is rather the result of...
View Article“Achieving” has an Evil Twin Brother!
Who likes soap operas, science fiction and superheroes? That’s right, this guy! Perhaps one of the most ludicrous and unintentionally funny aspects of any of these genres is the evil twin story line....
View ArticleTop 5 Hiring Regrets: What are Yours?
I read recently an interesting article called “The Top 5 Career Regrets” which ranked, according to responses gathered from several dozen people, the 5 most regrettable wrong turns these people made in...
View ArticleTalent Shortage? I Think Not!
According to recent surveys by Manpower group nearly 49% of U.S. organizations are struggling to find employees for their mission critical positions even though the unemployment rate continues to hover...
View ArticleHiring Managers: 6 Symptoms of Poor Interviewing Syndrome
Bad hires cost your company a truck load of money! According to a recent Careerbuilder study, 41% of surveyed companies indicated that bad hires cost their organization more than $25K while an...
View ArticleThe Free Market Mostly Doesn’t Work for Healthcare
I recently visited my doctor for an annual checkup. His practice had recently computerized their records. As he was going through my medical history he started laughing. Perturbed, I asked him to...
View Article6 Ways to Tell if a Robot is Coming for Your Job
Technology has had a major impact on human labor for centuries. For example, Pony Express Rider doesn’t exactly have a bullet next to it on the list of “hot jobs”. Robotics is one of the more recent...
View ArticleHiring Woes? 5 Reasons Why Video Interviewing is your 2013 Silver Bullet
With a casual pull of the trigger a simple silver bullet could vanquish the mythical werewolf when all other weapons failed. With a few keystrokes and the click of your mouse, video interviewing in...
View ArticleWant to Discover a Black Hole? Just Apply to an Online Job Posting.
Do you know what a black hole is? Basically a black hole is a spot in space that is so dense it creates a gravitational pull so powerful that not even light can escape. In other words, once you get …...
View ArticleAlleged Talent Shortage Caused by Corporate Selfishness?
Flipping through the recent copy of Human Resource Executive magazine I stumbled upon the results of a recent survey with the headline, “Aggravating the Skills Gap.” An organization recently surveyed...
View Article5 Ways to Choose a Spouse Like You Hire!
According to census numbers for as late as 2009, the divorce rate in the U.S. hovers close to or exceeds 50% for all 50 states. Basically when you enter into a relationship with another person you...
View ArticleTechnology Doesn’t Discriminate, People Do!
I have spoken to numerous HR professionals at conferences about the benefits of video interviewing. Most all get it, but as a few consider the implications of seeing a candidate on video before the...
View ArticleHey HR! 3 Reasons You Shouldn’t Fear Video Interviewing!
Right off the bat those in the Human Resources profession may take offense to my use of the word “fear” for surely so small a thing as a webcam does not scare them. Search your soul though soldiers of...
View ArticleWho is Saying What about Video Interviewing?
You have heard me go on and on about Video Interviewing so maybe for a change you’d like to hear from some of your peers not trying to sell you anything. The following candid quotes were provided by...
View ArticleRecruiters: How to Sell Your Job Candidates with Video Interviewing
As a search professional I am commonly asked by others in the industry, “How do you use video interviewing in your search assignments?” Before I get to how, let me tell you why I use video interviewing...
View ArticleAre Your Candidates “Sponge Worthy”?
Last week I was engaging in a discussion on Linkedin with one of our competitors about how video interviewing screens candidates into the hiring process and she brought up a point about screening...
View ArticleIs Discrimination Against the Uncool, “Ok”?
Recently the CEO of Abercrombie and Fitch, the trendy clothing retailer aimed at twenty somethings and younger, declared that he had no intention of designing plus sized clothes because overweight...
View ArticleThe Most Misguided Knock Against Video Interviewing.
Everyone who uses video interviewing does so because it can drastically reduce costs associated with hiring, speed up the hiring process and help managers make more informed decisions. In short, video...
View Article5 Reasons Why Phone Screening is Doomed!
Phone screening is so simple isn’t it? Once you have narrowed your pool of job candidates to say six or fewer, you simply pick up the phone and call those in whom you are interested to learn whether...
View ArticleHire-Intelligence Partners with SER National
Hire-Intelligence donates software customization and user licenses to SER National to provide job interview training for out of school youths. The training will use the Interview4 video interviewing...
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