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We have interviewed thousands of candidates. Here is our concise advice for extracting the most value from interviews, not in order of importance.
Employee satisfaction in their work relies on three factors, per the excellent book ‘3 Signs of a Miserable Job’ by Patrick Lencioni. Consider the flip side of these three points. How are people to be motivated to sacrifice, in any way, if they feel their work is unnecessary or trivial? This goes for senior executives […]
Do you trust your subordinates to replace you? Why? Why not? We hear many hiring authorities complain about the employees that THEY HIRED and THEY MANAGE. Some realize their complaints are in part a reflection of their own leadership ability and rise to the challenge, others flounder, wondering why people don’t perform as expected. Our […]
Let me tell you a story about your perfect interview. It’s a short and simple story. You make it look easy. That is how you nail the interview.
Quality and speed matter to good hiring. Go slow enough to know the candidate well but fast enough another competitor can’t seize the initiative.
“I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then” Lewis Carroll New clients and candidates often ask us why we bother running references. It’s a fair question. Many experiences with references are shallow and unhelpful. The stereotype is that nice things are said by people expected to say nice things. […]
This is a story about a well-meaning and successful company that hires a great candidate, but is surprised and disappointed to see the hire fail. THEY WERE QUALIFIED, SO WHAT HAPPENED? Busy teams are rightly thrilled to hire experienced people familiar with their industry challenges. But it’s easy to assume because these people are experienced […]
What are your expectations for success when you hire someone? Do you feel relieved and enthusiastic? Does the wary probationary period start? Is the path for success in your organization (performance expectations) immediately clear to them or do they need to prove they can figure out your system on their own? Do they need to […]
The “Recruiterproof Companies” series articulates the characteristics which make a company attract and retain good people while being tough to recruit from. I’m here to tell you innovative companies are tough to recruit from and easy to recruit to. It’s one of the five traits recruiter-proof companies have. Innovative companies are attractive to candidates. Being […]
Often we talk with people frustrated by micromanagement. It’s a common source of employee turnover and quite costly to naive employers. It’s easy to confuse who is causing the micro-management. THERE ARE TWO POTENTIALS THAT ARE OFTEN CONFLATED. The first cause is that the leader does not have the ability to trust their employees as […]
