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Posts Tagged ‘job seekers’
The Three P’s of a Successful Hiring Persona
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012There’s a lot of advice out there for applicants and job seekers on how to present yourself during the hiring process. In this post, we’d like to take a moment to talk about how employers and their hiring staff ought to come across. Sure, you are offering a new career opportunity for the lucky applicant who gets your offer. But, if you want to reel in a prize catch, it would help to lure them in with your best behavior during the hiring process.
A Poor Pre-Hire Process Promotes Problems (Try Saying That 10 Times Fast!)
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011Everybody agrees the company needs to fill that position ASAP. Everybody agrees that hiring the right person is critical. Nobody questions the job description or salary and benefits package or even the timetable for hiring a new employee. Great! You are all set for hiring success. Let’s go to lunch.
Or not.
Never Underestimate the Power of Good Background Screening
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011Yeah, yeah. We know. Conducting proper background screenings is expensive and most companies these days needed that new hire yesterday. Does that make it OK to bag the screening process when a candidate looks, you know, pretty legit? Or maybe do a “light” background screening? In a word: No! Any bad hire is costly to [...]
Small Businesses Benefit From Applicant Tracking Systems Too!
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011Securing a great hire is a huge victory for any company. Nobody is going to deny that. That’s why successful companies of all sizes spend so much time, effort and money in acquiring their talent. Unfortunately, sometimes financial limitations can prevent good organizations from using valuable resources that exist to help with this task. Point [...]
New-Hire Negotiations: Don’t Count Your Chickens Before They Accept Your Offer
Friday, January 14th, 2011After a very careful search, you’ve found a great candidate. Slam dunk! Yay, team! Everybody high-five and let’s get back to work, right? Not quite yet. New-hire negotiations require more than just an outline of what you plan to offer and a pen to sign on the dotted line. While some new-hires don’t really question [...]
Suddenly, “Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years” Doesn’t Seem So Intriguing
Friday, December 31st, 2010We just saw this article at Huffingtonpost.com, and had to share it on this last day of 2010. It’s called “15 Ridiculously Hard Job Interview Questions From Top Employers Like Google, Goldman Sachs”, and the title does not exaggerate. As seasoned hiring management specialists, we thought we’d heard them all, but we found some new [...]
hireVision’s Tina Hamilton Offers Great Interview Tips in Woman’s World Magazine
Thursday, April 29th, 2010President Tina Hamilton has been tapped as an HR expert again, this time for Woman’s World Magazine‘s “Land that job with new recruiter-proven tricks!” The article, which appeared in the April 26, 2010 issue, offers advice to job candidates on how to improve their “soft” skills, which the define as the ability to be able [...]
