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Poll: Internships and Cronyism: 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...; Tags: Workforce Management, Human Resources, Recruitment & Selection, Tradition, Applicant, William Baker; Blog posts 2008-04-16
Recruit Like the Pros: 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,...; Tags: Brian Libby, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Candidate, Starbucks Corp., Federal Express, Southwest Airlines Co., Job, Talent, BNET Feature, Selection, Recruitment &Amp, Business, Applicant; Articles 2007-02-27
Are Colleges Discriminating Against Girls?: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is investigating whether liberal arts colleges are discriminating against female applicants. Some liberal arts colleges are worried about gender imbalance so they accept more male applicants. Universities that focus on engineering and science, however, accept more female applicants. MIT recently accepted 8.7% of male...; Tags: Applicant, Lynn O'Shaughnessy; Blog posts 2009-11-03
Job Interview: Questions That Should Not Be Asked: It is perfectly understandable that companies want to use a job interview to find out as much as they can about the applicant. Interviews give companies an opportunity to find out whether or not jobseekers have the skills and personal qualities that the job demands as well as allowing them...; Tags: Job, Applicant, Job Interview, Jobseeker, SafeWorkers, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2009-01-01
The Flawless Job Interview: When it comes to job interviews, employers can easily pick out those applicants who came prepared and those who did not. From the way a person speaks and acts or behaves, they can easily determine whether he or she is likely fit in with the culture of the company. The...; Tags: Job, Applicant, Job Interview, ArticlePros.com, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2008-01-01

Jobs And Over Aged Applicants: Though some employers would prefer a younger workforce, the older applicants still have a wide variety of career choices to choose from. Employers are starting to see the potential of older and much-experienced applicants. An individual's employment history receives as much scrutiny as the applicant itself. While employers tend to...; Tags: Job, Applicant, Employer, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2008-01-01
Screening Interviews: Screening can take multiple interviews. Methods are variable, but all work on the principle of culling applicants. Screening interviews are extremely important. However informal, you must prepare for the tests. Failing means no job. You'll always be a good, credible applicant if you show your good points. You'll be an...; Tags: Applicant, Screening Interview, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2008-01-01
Handling A Meal Successfully During Your Job Interview: A meal can be very important to your job search success! Most employers have busy schedules and will arrange interviews during meal times. Sometimes, an applicant may share breakfast with one group, lunch with another and still another for dinner. All the while, the applicant is expected to answer questions...; Tags: Job, Applicant, Job Interview, Job Search, Pam Pohly, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2008-01-01
Interviewing Advice: Look The Part: The key word for all business interviewing regardless of the position you are seeking is conservative. An applicant can never go wrong displaying conservative demeanor during a job interview. Proper planning beforehand can help make the experience easy, beneficial, and almost pleasant. However, lack of planning will be recognized immediately...; Tags: Job, Applicant, Job Interview, Net-Temps, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2008-01-01
How To Effectively Interview Au Pair Applicants: Because an au pair lives with their host family for a year and are a great distance from home, the interview process is vital. During the interviews, the host family needs to evaluate each candidate to find a suitable au pair that matches their particular needs and beliefs. Try some...; Tags: Applicant; White papers 2008-01-01
6 Essentials For Finding A New Job: Networking doesn't have to be confined to business contacts, especially when you're trying to break into a big company that may use automated software to screen applicants. Ask everyone you know if they have a connection to a specific employer; the goal is to get your resume forwarded to a...; Tags: Hiring, Job, Applicant, Yahoo! Inc., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2008-01-01
Strategies For Making The Cut: As you seek your first full-time position, you may frequently be telephoned for screening interviews. These are brief phone interviews that help companies pare down a large number of applicants to a small list of candidates to invite for in-person meetings. The hiring manager screening applicants is concerned mainly with...; Tags: Strategy, Hiring, Job, Applicant, Job Nut, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2008-01-01
INTERVIEWERS IRKED By AWOL APPLICANTS: This paper gives some job-search advice you may think is painfully simplistic: Next time you are lucky enough to land a job interview, show up. That's right. Show Up. That's obvious, you say. Not so, according to many frustrated hiring managers at a variety of companies who report an alarming...; Tags: Hiring, Applicant, JJ Acquisition, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2005-09-18
Job Searching 5 Top Internet Sites: Career Tools assists applicants in preparing the resume as well to end up with a job-winning application letter, back you up with interviewing to prepare for a great impression, helps applicants make connections and create relationships, and lastly calculate to find out the effective way of negotiating with the starting...; Tags: Job, Applicant, Internet-site, SmasHits.com, Career Tools, Recruitment & Selection, Professional Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Career; White papers 2008-01-01
Job Search For Older Applicants: An individual's employment history receives as much scrutiny as the applicant itself. While employers tend to look for gaps or lapses of time when the applicant has been unemployed, they also tend to focus on the length of service one had rendered for their previous employers. Frequent change of work...; Tags: Job, Applicant, Employer, Job Search, SmasHits.com, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2008-01-01
Job Interviewing Question: Why Do You Want To Work For This Company?: Importance of this Topic: Interviewing applicants is the most common way businesspeople decide whom to hire. But, research proves most interviewers do lousy at predicting if an applicant will succeed - or flop - if hired. Since companies still interview applicants, they had better learn to make top-quality predictions based...; Tags: Job, Applicant, Articles Factory, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2008-06-14
What Is A Second Interview?: A second interview is an important stage in the job application process. It indicates that a company has enough interest in an applicant to call him or her back to talk with other decision-making staff in the company. Depending on the organization, an offer of employment may be extended after...; Tags: Applicant, Decision-making, Conjecture, Tools & Techniques, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2009-01-01
Interviews - Look The Part: There are some things about an interview that you cannot control Appearance is not one of them. Consider conservative very carefully. The key word for all business interviewing regardless of the position you are seeking is conservative. An applicant can never go wrong displaying conservative demeanor during a job interview....; Tags: Applicant, Job Interview, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2009-01-01
CityCenter's 12,000 Jobs For 160,000 Applicants: I did the math on CityCenter's 12,000 job offers given to 160,000 applicants. The beleaguered $8.5 billion project by partners MGM Mirage and Dubai World, said it will hire 12,000 by the endÂ of the month, which comes to around 1 in 13 applicants will be receiving a phone call. CityCenter,...; Tags: Job, Applicant, MGM Mirage, CityCenter, Recruitment & Selection, Business Structures, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Barbara E. Hernandez; Blog posts 2009-09-21
Study: Recruiters Get the Wrong Idea from Resumes: The Find: Sorting through resumes is time consuming and, unfortunately, rarely gives a recruiter an accurate picture of an applicant's personality, according to recent research. The Source: Research in The Journal of Business and Psychology discussed on the HR Tests blog. The Takeaway: Sifting...; Tags: Applicant, Candidate, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jessica Stillman; Blog posts 2008-12-11