Does Your Hiring Process Lack “Sense”?
Humans rely on our senses to experience and interpret the world around us. We have evolved over time to use sensory inputs to make judgments about all kinds of things. Is that fruit OK to eat? Is...
View ArticleSkills vs. Attitude: What Lands the Job?
Of course you need skills to get considered for employment but to land a job one could argue they aren’t nearly as important as you think. Cosmetics giant L’Oreal recently began assessing sales people...
View ArticleReady to Hire? What Interview Questions Should You Be Asking?
You have been interviewing for years so of course you are an expert interviewer right? Don’t be so confident. If you’re still asking questions like, “What are your strengths and weaknesses,” you may...
View ArticleInterviewing: Are You So Uptight You Are Losing Good Candidates?
I recently read an article on Business Insider called “The Most Ridiculous Things People Did In Job Interviews This Past Year.” I always enjoy hearing about whether job candidates brought their...
View ArticleEfficient Interviewing: How Video Interviewing Can Help Hiring Managers Avoid...
A recent survey by Careerbuilder of more than 2,200 hiring managers and HR professionals revealed that 49% of them know within the first five minutes of a face-to-face interview if a candidate is a...
View ArticleHow Confident Do You Want Your Job Candidates To Be?
When I look up antonyms for the word “confident” I don’t see too many positive adjectives. Doubtful, afraid, cowardly, pessimistic, unsure, weak are all less than flattering descriptions of someone...
View ArticleWill A Higher Minimum Wage Spur More Effort to Lower Turnover?
Turnover rolls along at high rates and at a high cost to employers. Rates run as high as 35% in the hospitality industry. Costs, according to research by SHRM, can be as much as “60% of an employee’s...
View ArticleJob Rejections Piling Up? Chin up! It Happens Even to Billionaires.
Do you know Jan Koum and Brian Acton? Like you I had never heard of them before last Wednesday. A few years ago they both applied to and were rejected by Facebook. The significance of this is that...
View ArticleWhy So Hard to Find Talent? This Image Sums IT Up For You.
Look at the image above and really try to understand how broken the hiring process has become. According to a 2013 survey by Manpower, 39% of employers in all industries were having trouble filling...
View ArticleVideo Interviewing and the Disabled: Considerations
Whether you are building a house or always dreamed of doing so picture what you consider it might have. Do you think about a grand staircase, a swimming pool, a large kitchen with an island and...
View ArticleXP is dead! Long live Windows 8 (and 7)
XP is dead, long live Windows 8 (and 7)! Next month, in April 2014, Windows XP will reach its end of life. This means no more security updates, no more bug fixes, and every malware writer on the...
View ArticleBrave Enough To Admit the Worst Thing You Have Ever Done At Work?
I can’t recall anything monumentally wrong I have ever done at work. I can recall at least one time that I accidentally emailed personal insight about a job candidate intended for the hiring manager’s...
View ArticleMotivating Employees: The Lessons We Learn from Flappy Bird
If you have no children you probably know little about Flappy Bird, a supposedly insanely addictive app available for mobile devices which was removed from Google Play and iTunes in February by the...
View ArticleRejecting Job Candidates: How Long Do You Really Need?
When a job candidate applies for a job he or she has several opportunities to be rejected. First they might be rejected by the applicant tracking system, within seconds I might add, simply because the...
View ArticleUpdate Flash Player
Today, Adobe has released a critical security update to flash player. The update closes a security hole that is actively being exploited. Everyone should update to the latest version of Flash Player at...
View ArticleVideo Interviewing: Will It Kill the Face to Face Interview?
Imagine a scenario where a recently graduated college student in search of employment begins applying here and there hoping to land a job interview. After several months of no success, she decides to...
View ArticleVideo Interviewing: 50 Years Have Passed and You Still Don’t Use It.
Video Interviewing usage continues to increase but still one could easily argue that we haven’t yet entered the early majority phase of adoption. Still though, all of us have at one time used video to...
View ArticleU.S. Workforce: The Scary Truth About Who is Looking, Leaving and Who Just...
If you are a hiring manager or HR professional you may have seen one or two of these statistics in the last year but probably not all together or all at once. Gather them into one place and you see a...
View ArticleSuccess: Here’s All the Lists You Need On How to Obtain It.
Every week in my search for blog inspiration I run across similar themes over and over again such as lists on how to be a better leader. Another go to subject about which bloggers write when they...
View ArticleJobseekers: The Startling Truth About How Much Your College Education is...
Forget how much your college degree is worth for a second and think about how much it cost. If you don’t know because your parents footed the bill, as did mine, I will tell you. The average yearly...
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