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No Cost Relocation candidates: The concept of offering a relocation package is inconceivable to many hiring managers. However, the best candidate for your open position probably lives more than 100 miles away, outside of your local area. Did you know that many people will fund their own relocation, or will accept a job offer...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Administaff Inc., relocation, hiring, job; White papers 2007-12-01
How Your Competitors Lure Top Talent: Even in a decelerating economy, competition for top young talent remains high. To attract these folks, you need to be creative. Your competitors certainly are. Tammy Erickson blogs on Harvard Business some examples of what top companies are offering hot candidates. Here's a sample: ...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Workforce management, Sean Silverthorne, Tammy Erickson; Blog posts 2008-04-17
10 Tips For Effective Interviewing: A candidate will tend to put a lot of time and effort into making a good impression during an interview. Too often, however, interviewers are far less concerned with the impression they make on candidates. The article lists some tips for recruiters and hiring managers to help them make the...; Tags: hiring; White papers
Do you have any more candidates???: The best recruiters are advisors and consultants, not vendors. They lead the hiring process every step of the way. By clarifying expectations and deliverables, you have a tool that allows you to both attract candidates and measure their competency. Good recruiters not only find top candidates, they also have the...; Tags: advisor, hiring, tool; White papers
Recruiting Stars: Top Ten Ways to Get Great candidates: Looking for talent? The smartest employers, who hire the best people, develop a pre-qualified candidate pool before they need to fill a job. One can develop relationships with potential employees long before they are needed. These ideas will also help to create a larger pool of candidates when a current...; Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, talent, recruiting, job; White papers

Use Real-Time Technology To Interview Job candidates: New communications technology can be used by us to communicate with anyone by using video and audio, instant messaging, e-mail, and collaborative software. Recruiters and hiring managers can use this real-time technology to widen their recruiting efforts and scan the globe for talented prospective employees. You can meet candidates online,...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Microsoft Corp., recruiting, job, hiring, IM, video, e-mail, software; White papers
Do Presidential candidates Understand the Knowledge Economy?: The future of the American competitiveness has received short shrift from the presidential candidates, who instead are underscoring more here-and-now issues such as Iraq, universal healthcare, the subprime fallout. At least that's the view of Harvard Business blogger Tom Davenport, who says "my hope in this presidential...; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, knowledge, American Competitiveness; Blog posts 2008-02-29
Marketing Beer, Marketing candidates: If the US electoral process was a consumer product, it would be a dreary failure. It results in a citizenry that is cynical about politics, distrustful of candidates, and apathetic on voting day. No wonder we form stronger ties to the brands we love than the candidates we vote for....; Tags: Sean Silverthorne, marketing, John Quelch; Blog posts 2008-01-19
Ending the CEO Succession Crisis: The Idea in Brief The CEO succession process is broken. Too many companies' succession pipelines are bone dry. Even among firms that do have succession plans, most aren't happy with them. Thanks to poor succession...; Tags: Corporate governance, Leadership, Ram Charan, succession, succession planning, P&L, coach, board, CEO, director, team-building, monitoring, leader, talent, career, vision, financial, job, performance, industry; Articles 2007-12-13
Preparing to Interview Others: Before you write a job advertisement, you must conduct some preliminary research. The recruitment process can be complex and costly, both in terms of time devoted to the selection process and money spent on advertising. Thorough preparation may minimize the time and money you spend. Also, by preparing in advance,...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, BNET Editorial, qualification, job, advertisement, job search, recruiting, business strategy, agency, Internet, knowledge, performance; Articles 2007-12-06
Interviewing candidates and Making Job Offers: A job interview has two primary objectives: First, to find out if the candidate is qualified for the job; and second, to provide the candidate with information about the position and the company. To ensure the right person is hired, it’s essential that all candidates have the same opportunities to...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, BNET Editorial, résumé, qualification, job, supervisor, technique, small business, knowledge; Articles 2007-11-28
New Approaches to Sleuthing Out Applicants' Personalities: A team's success or failure can be the result of lack of technical know-how or poorly planned or executed strategy, but it can also be the result of team members not getting along. Sometimes the biggest difference between two companies is their collective personalities or culture. Yahoo!...; Tags: Team management, Jessica Stillman, Lanham Napier; Blog posts 2007-11-07
10 Things That Will Get You Hired: Do you want to extend your time looking for a job? Of course not. Candidates are always on the lookout for the most efficient, effective way to find new work. This paper explains tips - when heeded during the job search and interview processes - can make job hunting go...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job search, job; White papers 2007-09-24
Interviewing Over the Telephone: Many hiring managers conduct telephone interviews in the early stages of the recruiting process because it can be a cost- and time-efficient way to narrow down a list of candidates. This method of interviewing also offers valuable insight for positions that require phone communication skills.Managers generally conduct face-to-face interviews before...; Tags: Telecom & Utilities, BNET Editorial, phone, hiring, recruiting, job, customer service; Articles 2007-10-16
Conducting One-on-One Employment Interviews: Employers commonly conduct one-on-one (or face-to-face) interviews with individual job candidates to select a new staff member. When potential recruits interview with several company representatives, the multiple perspectives provide valuable input to the hiring decision process. However, sometimes in small businesses and start-up environments, only one manager will participate in...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, BNET Editorial, job, core competency, technique, small business, hiring; Articles 2007-10-12
Conducting Panel Employment Interviews: Panel interviewing allows multiple people to interview a job candidate at the same time. A panel has two or more participants, which may include the direct manager for the role, human resources staff, department managers, and/or the candidate’s potential colleagues. Peer participants commonly participate when recruiting a new senior staff...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, BNET Editorial, job, communication skill, core competency, recruiting, Human Resources, technique; Articles 2007-10-11
Making Sound Hiring Decisions: Recruitment appears simple: a vacancy arises, the role is advertised, a pool of qualified candidates is interviewed and otherwise assessed, the successful candidate selected and the position offered. It rarely goes as smoothly at that, however. By final interview stages, so much information about the candidates has been gathered, that...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, BNET Editorial, recruit, workplace, job, hiring, small business, knowledge, phone; Articles 2007-10-03
The 7 Interview Questions You Must Ask: Forget 'What are your strengths and weaknesses?' If you want to get the real dope on prospective employees, ask job candidates these seven questions. Question #1: "How about those Yankees?" Purpose: Develop the rapport needed to get the interview off the ground. Every...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Brian Libby, job, motivation, career, brand, performance, industry, phone; Articles 2007-02-27
Video: Time to Interview a Job candidate?: Hiring managers are constantly on the hunt, making sure they find the best applicant for the job at hand. BNET talks to Leila Bulling, CNET Network's Director of Corporate Training, to learn the proven techniques that smart companies use to identify tomorrow's top prospects. (HINT: If our embedded video player...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, BNET staff, job, Hiring Manager; Blog posts 2007-06-24
How to Conduct a Job Interview: Got a key position to fill? Hiring good employees is the foundation of any successful business. Do Your Homework Beforehand Goal: Minimize the back-story and maximize the time you spend with the candidate. Going into an interview, each interviewer should...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Brian Libby, job, hiring, Google Inc., privacy, staffing, open-source software, talent, Web site, blog, software; Articles 2007-03-13