Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “hiring”
Your hiring managers are hopelessly biased when it comes to making selection decisions in the hiring process, often resulting in a team more reminiscent of the Stepford Wives and less like the band of pledges seen in Old School’s Lambda Epsilon Omega. Why? People have an innate and subconscious tendency to hire the most attractive, smooth-talking candidate when making a selection decision. But having …
Oh I've got this nailed….a lawyer with your social media policy in their hand. Haha! You think I jest, don't you? I'm not. Not at all. HR is running scared from Social Media. And the lawyers are making them do it. Bad for Corporate, outstanding for me. (I'm in retained search, no rules remember? Just those moral ones I impose…) …
This is going to sound morbid but I promise it isn't. I want you to write your own obituary. Today. Actually, Tony Robbins style… stop the tape, get out a tablet and pen the damn thing right now. The formula for a decent obituary is the following: Who were you? What did you stand for? What did you achieve? Who …
Does it? I was having a conversation with this blogger the other day, and I left it with the impression that sometimes recruiters feel a degree of inadequacy if they source from one source versus another. That maybe a higher weight of value is put on the hard to find candidate. Is there shame in saying you found someone on …
Think this through… You’re hunting down the perfect hire. You’ve outlined the specs for the job. You’ve combed through all the job boards and check the passive (aggressive) candidates on LinkedIn. You’ve identified two strong candidates and you bring them in for the interview. They both do well. You stack up their resumes and they both look pretty similar on paper. …
