Today's poll deals with how to handle a tradition of cronyism. Your Dilemma: You've recently been hired as the vice-president in charge of recruitment for a medium-sized firm, and part of your job is to screen and select applicants for the company's coveted summer internships. There are...
The Job Posting policy of the company is to promote from within to fill vacancies. Vacancies will be posted for 48 hours. Certain criteria need to be met in order for a current employee to apply for the opening. Criteria is listed in the posting. If no applicants are considered...
When you walk into an interview, remember this: It only takes 30 seconds to make a lasting impression. Research has shown that the first impression you make on an interviewer really sticks. In one study, untrained subjects were shown 20- to 32-second videotaped segments of job applicants greeting their interviewers....
At companies like Google, Starbucks, and FedEx, talent scouts have unique ways to identify the very best hires Google: The Talent Show At its offices all over the world, Google holds events designed to help the company connect with local talent. One,...
Over the past decade, personality measures have increased in popularity as predictors of performance. With this increased use have come concerns about the "fakability" of personality inventories. Specifically, because most personality inventories are relatively transparent, concerns have been raised about the extent to which job applicants answer them honestly. This...
One challenging part of the hiring process is informing an applicant that he or she will not be getting the job. This template contains a letter that you can customize and send to an unsuccessful applicant. The rejection letter should honestly inform the applicant about the prospects for future consideration...
The template in this paper contains a form that is designed to help you document a thorough background check on any applicant you may wish to hire. It's important to do a background check to make sure you get the right employee and to make sure that the applicant has...
This paper contains a sample interview script that you can easily adapt for your own business. Note that the interview process is divided into two parts. In the first part, the information gathering stage, you obtain information about the applicant. In the second stage, you let the applicant know about...
This template will help your company engage job applicants in a thorough interview process. It also helps you track and evaluate each applicant to ensure that even the ones interviewed early in the game don't slip away.
You need to know as much about prospective job applicants as possible. That's where the pre-employment questionnaire comes in. You can learn before interviewing applicants whether or not they are flexible, comfortable with change, competent, ethical, etc. You can either mail prospective applicants this form or e-mail it. And you...
The article is all about the problems and the probable solution in hiring people. Nowadays people looking for work are being less selective, applying for positions for which they are not necessarily well suited. That makes the task of sifting through applicants more difficult. Mismatches can be costly. Once a...
The success of any organization depends upon choosing the right people for team. However, a question, which remains, is that how do one pick the best from the rest? Fortune 500 companies and government agencies hiring success and legal advantages can be applied in large and small company environments. In...
The image we portray to applicants during the interview process is vital to attracting top candidates. If our interview method or style is unprofessional, the applicant assumes so is the workplace. To attract the best, we need our interviewing techniques to be the best. Consider the steps detailed in the...
The best test to determine whether you’re interviewing methods is effective is to look back on how many poor hiring decisions you made. How often were you surprised that the new hire didn’t have all the skills he or she claimed? How often did it appear that someone...
We all know some or most resumes can sometimes show more than what applicants do actually know. As most applicants want to get their resumes noticed by head hunters, they try to put information that can easily be noticed, something that can get them called for an interview. They show...
Interviewers from some of the top national and multinational corporations agree. They see fewer and fewer applicants able to navigate the interview process in nowadays' corporate world. The skills needed to get a job have changed and apparently those seeking those jobs have not kept up with the times. This...
These rules are designed to be used as Red Flags when screening resumes/applications and interviewing applicants. A red flag is an area that may or may not be a concern but MUST be explored further with the applicant. Read on to know more about them.
In nowadays' competitive job market applicants are now competing against hundreds of others with similar qualifications. No longer can you simply state Education and Professional Experience and hope to get an interview. Hiring managers have neither the time, or the inclination, to search for an applicant's skills as they relate...
