By now most of us are aware of the influence social networking sites have had on the hiring process. We’ve heard the stories about what sites like LinkedIn, Twitter and especially Facebook have done to help or hinder candidates in the job application process. Some of those stories are doozies, too. But that’s not the [...]
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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 [...]
Top 5 Reasons Why People Left Their Jobs in the Last 12 Months
Friday, April 23rd, 2010We found these jaw-dropping poll results over at DailyHRtips.com. The survey, by Right Management Consultants and originally published in HR Magazine, asked 1,308 people why they left their jobs in the last year. (Totals add up to more than 100% because people we able to give more than one reason.) Here’s what they found: 1) [...]
CareerBuilder.com Working to Combat Resume TMI Syndrome
Monday, April 12th, 2010How many times have you looked over a resume and thought to yourself, “Oh, this applicant should not have included that”? How often does a case of too much information result in a job seeker being cut during the resume screening process? The Work Buzz, a CareerBuilder.com blog, recently posted “6 things you should probably [...]
If You Missed Tina Hamilton’s Nationwide Webinar for iCIMS…
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010On Thursday, February 18th, Tina Hamilton, hireVision Group’s president/CEO presented the webinar “The 8 Biggest Hiring Mistakes for 2010″ for iCIMS, a worldwide leader in providing Applicant tracking Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). “It was my first ever nationwide webinar,” says Hamilton, “and it was a really incredible experience to reach such a wide-spread audience in such an [...]
hireVision Provides Eastern PA Business Journal with Expert Advice on Employee Background Checks
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Our own Tina Hamilton was spotlighted in the news again in the Eastern Pennsylvania Business Journal’s cover story “Suits, security fears spur deeper background probes,” published on February 22, 2010. The article discusses how and why businesses are putting more effort into background checks during the hiring process. Click here for a PDF of the [...]
Tina Hamilton on Front Page of Yahoo!
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009Here are some secret tricks that real recruiters and hiring managers use to weed out candidates:
They inspect your car.
Tina Hamilton, of hireVision Group, knows a corporate president who would find out which car belonged to the candidate he was interviewing. “The receptionist … would then go outside and look in the candidate’s car to see how neat and clean the car was, if there were food wrappers … how well maintained the car was,” says Hamilton. “The owner considered this a definition of the candidate’s character.”
