When having the opportunity to interview multiple candidates for a role, it can often times be overwhelming, trying to decipher who is a stud, and who is a dud. Hiring managers are wise to pay acute attention to how potential employees conduct themselves during the interview process, in order to…...
Best Interview Practices; Quiz Candidates on Real-Life Situations
The goal of any employment interview is to evaluate discover how a candidate would perform in his new environment. Traditionally, interviewers try to predict on-the-job behavior by analyzing applicants’ explanations of how they achieved results in similar situations. Recently, interviewers have adopted more esoteric questions – “How would you…...
Candidates; Turn the Tables on Your Interviewer
Many times a company’s only knowledge of a job applicant comes from the information provided in a cover letter and resume. It is the interviewer’s responsibility to elicit additional data regarding qualifications, experience, and fitness for the position. Still, the candidate can assist the interviewer in collecting and interpreting…...
3 Key Factors to Consider when Hiring
The old adage never rings truer than when looking at a potential hire. As they say, the best indicator of future behavior, is past performance. When evaluating Candidates for a critical fill position, the goal should be to hire someone that has excelled in a similar role, which required…...
Candidates; ‘Sell the Sizzle’ at Your Next Job Interview!
Marketing professionals know that when it comes to selling a product, it is best to emphasize “the sizzle, not the steak.” By that they mean that when selling something, it makes sense to invest in heightening the customers anticipation and desire for something, prior to delivering the goods or services, to…...
Secrets of Recruiting: How to Get Noticed by Professional Recruiters
How to Get Noticed The average recruiter gets literally hundreds of resumes PER DAY for every ad posted. When a job offers a six-figure income, those figures jump to 1,000 applicants per day, per job. So how do you stand out amongst all the other applicants, vying for these opportunities?…...
Infographic; 10 Tips to Increase your YES rate!
In every executives heart of hearts, there is always a 'Dream Team'; a list of highly qualified individuals that he or she would love to have on their team. One would assume that when introduced, those candidates and those hiring managers would be a match made in heaven, right? Wrong.…...
Resumes Open Doors, But Interviews Close the Deal
You pore over job announcements, apply only to the ones that seem written just for you, and tailor your cover letter to include key words that will capture the attention of the screener. You charm the hiring manager, ace the interview, and strike the perfect tone in your thank you…...
‘Seal the Deal’ After the Interview ….Here’s How!
Job interviews are like marketing campaigns; research shows the consumer (in this case the company) does not make a buying (hiring) decision until she has been exposed to the product (you) multiple times. By increasing the number of times the company decision makers interact with you, the more likely…...
Can Sales Success Be Predicted?
Since our inception in 1999, our sales recruiters have been asked thousands of times how to best predict sales success. We used to say that the best indicator of future behavior is past behavior, so would target candidates that had achieved success in prior sales roles. Thanks to dramatic…...
“Reverse Interviewing Techniques” Produce Substantial Results
With the competition for top talent intensifying every year, innovative companies are turning to reverse interviews to sell their companies to prospective employees. While the process is gaining traction as a way to show coveted candidates what the company can do for them, reverse interviewing also gives the hiring…...
We got 10 CEOs to tell us their one killer interview question for new hires
Where do you see yourself in five years? Tell me about a time when you showed leadership. What is your biggest weakness?These are the standard questions that job candidates face during interviews. And by now, everyone also has standard answers. (“My biggest weakness? I work too hard.”)As you scale to the upper rungs…...
Infographic: Are You Aware There Is A New Law That Prohibits Hiring Managers From Asking About Prior Earnings?
Have you heard about the law that now prohibits employers from asking about compensation history that has gone into effect in 9 states, with more to follow? This new legislation has earned a surprisingly low level of publicity, so we thought it may be helpful to put together some…...
The 5 Most Commonly Asked Illegal Interview Questions | Hireology
In hopes of preventing a $ 40 million dollar lawsuit (like the one famously paid by Abercrombie for religious discrimination), we thought we’d list the 5 most commonly asked illegal interview questions:Source - Read More at: hireology.comIt is surprising how many professionals are not aware of the 5 most common illegal…...
Creative Reference Checks Yield Complete Candidate Picture
In today’s politically correct world, few employers are willing to speak ill of former workers. So is there any point in calling an applicants former employers, supervisors, or co-workers? Since the majority of people provided for Reference Checks are self-reported, they are automatically diluted in value by half. After all,…...
Soft Focus: People Skills Do Matter
We’re often told there are two types of people in the world – creative right-brainers and analytical left-brainers; communicators and numbers-crunchers; poets and “quants”. The truth is, dependent on the role they are being considered for, successful employees must exhibit varying degrees of both sets of skills, and recruiters,…...
