Appreciating Your Interviewee

Bottom-Line Up Front: Most managers don’t prepare well for their interviewees… That’s why most managers suck at it make mediocre hiring decisions.
You’re a busy professional. You have a lot on your plate, your team is working overtime, and that ugly deadline is fast-approaching.
Finally, the recruiter calls you with an interviewee. They send over the [...]

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4 Telephone Interview Tips

A friend called on Saturday, frantic, because they have a telephone interview Monday morning. They had never had a telephone interview before, and her nerves were getting to her.
The key is to control what you can control, knowing that you are as ready as possible. Here are some other tips to help you out:

Attend [...]

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Interview Rules for Designers

Since I’m currently recruiting for a Web UI & Graphic Designer, the following caught my eye and I thought to share.
Jessica Petersen, Senior UI Designer at local tech company Omniture, posted the following to the local Utah Graphic Arts Foundation email list, which I think is a great set of rules for interviewing if you’re [...]

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10 Ways to Blow the Interview

CareerBuilder.com Editor, Kate Lorenz, posts the following on MSN’s Career Advice.
Information abounds regarding what you should say in an interview. But it can be just as important to realize what not to say. It is also imperative to note that what you say say can be communicated through both your words and actions.
1. You arrive [...]

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Lying Through Your Job Posting

Employers complain at-times that they "just can’t find the right people".  They’ve posted job ads, emailed their network, schmoozed their employees for referrals and they keep ending up with the wrong candidates in the interviews.
Maybe the wrong people are showing up because you’re lying about what you really want.
Time and again, I find employers posting [...]

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Humor: An Employment Test

I got the following by email…. if you know who wrote this, please let me know for attribution!How to determine the best use of your staff’s skills:
Put about 100 bricks in some particular order in a closed room with an open window. Then send 2 - 3 candidates into the room and close the door. [...]

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20 Ways to Ruin an Interview

Yahoo Hot Jobs has a great Job Tips of the Week newsletter they send out. Here’s some rather obvious (yet suprizingly common) ways not to interview like a superstar….

Arrive late.
If you can’t show up on time for an interview, why would an employer trust you to show up on time [...]

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Tough Crowd, Tough Crowd…

I just hung up the phone with another one of my candidates who was hired on-the-spot for another company after an interview they setup on their own.That’s four five this week.Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have any problem with people getting hired–that’s why I am a recruiter.  The hard thing is, this is happening [...]

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Avoid Communication Killers

Jeff Keller has a book called "Attitude is Everything".  In it, you can find some great insight to communication.

In business, the effective communicators are the ones who will be respected and promoted to leadership positions. In sales, good communicators are more persuasive, establish rapport and sell more than those with weak skills. To be effective, [...]

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Recruiting and the ‘Dual Coinidence of Wants’ problem

Jason Alba blogged today about the difference in a company’s speed-to-hire versus a job-seeker’s speed-to-be-hired
When I explain this to people, I think back to Econ 101 when they explained the purpose of "Money" in that it prevents the problem of the Dual Coincidence of Wants (Wikipedia).

Wikipedia: "The problem is caused by the improbability of the wants, [...]

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