Here’s What Ticks Job Candidates Off Most About Your Application Process!
A recent survey of 95,000+ job candidates and 150 companies revealed what is going right and what is going wrong in the job application process. For many months since my last blog post on this...
View ArticlePersonality and Success: What Trait Leads You To The Top?
According to the volume of content on the blogs and news sites I frequent, becoming successful and a leader must be the two most sought after goals in humanity. Every week I see the same content...
View ArticleWeird Interview Questions: Why Are They Asked & How Should You Ask Them?
“How many square feet of pizza are eaten in the U.S. each year?” “Who would win in a fight between Spiderman and Batman?” “How much would you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?” “If you were a...
View ArticleVideo Interviewing: Naked Candidates and 4 More Epic Candidate Blunders
I have reviewed thousands, if not tens of thousands of video interviews, and in addition I have helped numerous job candidates setup or prepare for their interviews. Here are the top five candidate...
View ArticleBiased? Don’t Be! Look Who Got Into All 8 Ivy League Schools!
Why do we have laws protecting job candidates from discrimination on the grounds of race, ethnicity, age, gender and so on? Because hiring managers have preconceived notions about whether candidates...
View ArticleWhat Will Hiring Be Like In 100 Years?
The hiring process has changed over the years as old methods of hiring make way for new ones. Online job postings killed the classifieds and soon postings will succumb to social media. Video...
View ArticleShould You Hire Someone Smarter Than You?
“A good rule of thumb is to only hire people better than you no matter how long it takes to find them” Lazlow Bock, SVP of People Operations at Google. “You can’t get better if you don’t hire better....
View ArticleVideo Interviewing: 8 Unwarranted Concerns
“Sigh, my company has asked me to look into testing out video interviewing,” groaned the HR manager. “Ugh, I’ve been invited to complete a video interview,” whined the job candidate. As a recruiter or...
View ArticleIf Exit Interviews Are So Important, Why Not On Video?
The advantage of the exit interview for departing employees is that you can learn so much more about the current state of morale at your company than from present employees who are too fearful to...
View ArticleDoes Your Prestigious Diploma Determine Your Success?
According to a recent report by Payscale, students graduating from one of the Ivies or more prestigious technical institutions will over the course of their lifetime earn far more in career earnings...
View ArticleResume Mistakes: 32 You Are Possibly Making
Every week I see a new post about resume mistakes. Some have five tips, others have seven, one I saw listed twenty-two and another author labeled their mistakes as “Mega”! This particular post, on...
View ArticleResearch Reveals The Many Ways You Make Yourself Look Dumb At Work
If you read my post, “5 Ways We Make A good Or Bad First Impression According To Research” you understand how quickly opinions of us are formed and how these favorable or unfavorable opinions can...
View ArticleWhy We Should Hire The Older Worker
Some employers believe older workers are more expensive and harder to manage and so once you reach a particular age threshold, holding on to your job or finding a new one becomes increasingly...
View ArticleRecruiting: Do You Have Time For The “Maybes”?
As a recruiter you probably sort your job candidates into three piles; “yes”, “no” and “maybe.” How would you feel if one of the “maybe” candidates you dismissed as not good enough was presented and...
View ArticleVideo Interviewing: Let’s Get Technical
Blog posts preparing you for your video interview are popping up online more and more often now that the technology has gained greater acceptance among recruiters and hiring managers who wish to...
View ArticleHiring: How Quickly Can You Identify Success? How Quickly Can You Demonstrate...
As a hiring manager how quickly can you determine the potential success of your job candidates during an interview? As a job candidate how fast can you demonstrate your potential for success? The...
View ArticleVideo Interviewing: 5 Candidate Red Flags Employers Need To Observe
Employers must be on the lookout for candidate red flags during a traditional face-to-face job interview but what red flags might be detected during a video interview? Here is a list of red flags...
View Article5 Employer Pain Points That Video Interviewing Addresses
Recruiters, HR Professionals and Hiring Managers are all involved in the hiring process but not all share the pains of the other. Each faces challenges in their position the other does not fully...
View ArticleBosses Aren’t Destined To Be Jerks, Jerks Are Destined To Be Bosses
Not everyone likes to be a subordinate and take orders but we are more willing to take orders from some leaders than from others. Some bosses despite our open mindedness and willingness to give one...
View ArticleRecruiting Trends: Anonymous Resume Screening & Blind Interviewing
Dr. John Sullivan published recently an article titled, “Recruiting Trends for 2016 And Their Supporting Best Practices, Part 1 of 2.” Part one lists recruiting trends twelve through six while the six...
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