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Archive for September, 2006

UNRESPONSIVE HIRING MANAGERS

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Does this sound familiar? You get a requisition from a hiring manager for a position that he “needs filled right away”. So you put in long hours recruiting, you implore your outside recruiters to hurry on this one, and you do everything that you can to find qualified candidates. Finally, you get three top-notch, qualified […]

INTERVIEWING: TESTING FOR HONESTY

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

Can you really test for honesty in an interview? After all, you can’t just ask “Are you honest?” to a candidate — both honest and dishonest candidates will answer the same way. So then how can you test for honesty with a job applicant? Here are three ways that I have seen my clients test […]

Resumes: How Many Resumes do I Need to Hire the Right Person

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

Having enough resumes in your candidate pool may be the single most overlooked step in the process to hire the right person. Most of the 100’s of HR Managers that I’ve talked to in the past year say there just aren’t enough hours in the day to get all their work done. Accordingly, they will […]