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6 Tips to Supercharge Your Recruiting Results

All employers are challenged by recruiting. It can seem a long and complicated process with uncertain results. But there are proven ways to turn the process to your advantage. Here are 6 tips to give your recruiting a supercharge. Write a Clear Job Description If your job description doesn’t make sense, reduce it to a…Continue reading6 Tips to Supercharge Your Recruiting Results

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How Employers Should Discuss Salary During a Job Interview

The Scene:  Final interview for a position.  After several interviews, the hiring manager thinks that the candidate is right for the job.  Only one question . . . how much salary to offer? Traditionally, at this point the hiring manager would ask the candidate, “what is your current salary?” Often that would used as a gauge of how…Continue readingHow Employers Should Discuss Salary During a Job Interview

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7 Tips for Reference Check Success

Are Reference Checks a Waste of Time? Employers commonly ask candidates for references before offering them a job.   Frustration with common problems leaves some thinking, “what a waste of my time!” Here are some solutions that will increase the usefulness of reference checking. Problem: The candidate is unlikely to put their worst enemies on the list.…Continue reading7 Tips for Reference Check Success

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3 Steps to Hiring the Right Person

Jim Collins’ best selling management book, Good to Great, teaches us that a primary goal of employee selection is to sit the right people in the right seat on the (company) bus. In other words, hire the right people and put them in the right position.  While a typical recruiting effort takes great pains to measure the…Continue reading3 Steps to Hiring the Right Person

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Hiring: Beyond the Interview

Hiring decisions are so important, and so costly if wrong, that an interview is not enough information on which to make a choice.  Get more information about your candidate by testing, reference checks, background checks and online data gathering. Testing You can test your candidate’s PC skills, such as the ability to create an Excel spreadsheet.  Psychological…Continue readingHiring: Beyond the Interview

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A Simple and Effective Job Ad

We all hope that our job ads will attract candidates who will turn into motivated, passionate, productive employees. However, our hopes are often dashed. This is because the typical ad is attracting the wrong people. Let me explain why. Here is an example of the “typical” ad, for a customer service manager: Customer Service Manager…Continue readingA Simple and Effective Job Ad

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A Simple Interviewing System That Works

Hiring new employees is one thing all companies have in common. Also common is the high number of decisions that go wrong – employees who disappoint the high hopes you had when you hired them. The problem is that many interviewers are not really prepared for their interviews. Because they do not have a plan, they…Continue readingA Simple Interviewing System That Works