Posts Tagged ‘hiring’

Hiring Brilliant People

As a manager, hiring is not hard, but hiring right people is one of the hardest components in management. Interview plays a major factor on getting great people on-board. BNET has a feature section called Now Hiring: Brilliant People with a quick how-to, some example questions that you must ask, and ten mistakes interview make during job interviews. The article about ten mistakes is extremely important to avoid during the… » Continue

April 30 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: hiring, Management | no comments»

Interview Tips for Computer Science Students

I interviewed bunch of fresh graduates for number of software development positions. Interview graduates can go two ways - It’s interesting if they’ve done something outside their course work which can show their passions and skills. It’s tiring to hear about what subject they have studied and what are the school projects. Frankly there aren’t any interesting things to talk about school.

Dan Kegel has similar thoughts. Even better… » Continue

January 29 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: engineering, hiring, interview | no comments»

Ten Stupid Hiring Mistakes

When I was searching for articles on hiring today, I came across to this great article by Nick Corcodilos, who has been preaching what’s wrong with the traditional interview practice.

In this article, he identified 10 hiring mistakes, and unfortunately, they are quite common to many companies today.

Overly-narrow job specifications
Human Resources does the recruiting
Hiring “what comes along”
Failure to prep the candidate
Failure to leverage the interview into other useful contacts
Talk, talk, talk
Inadequate

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January 8 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: hiring, Management | 1 comment»

Getting Great Attitude

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude.
I like fun.
—Colleen C. Barrett

Those of us who have been charged with hiring others, have very likely been taught to “look for someone with a great attitude; you can train them in all the skills they’ll need.”

Good advice, but just the beginning.

Here’s something to consider; attitude is a result of something. If a prospective candidate comes to you with… » Continue

November 30 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: attitude, environment, hiring, optimism, workplaces | 4 comments»

Book Review: Robert Half On Hiring

A Robert Half book, published by The Penguin Group, reviewed by Reg Adkins.

Robert Half has written several books on business topics. To me the most practical and applicable of them is “Robert Half on Hiring.”

In this book Half takes the time to analyze and quantify the hiring process in all of its component parts. He spends an entire chapter helping you analyze the job you wish to fill in… » Continue

October 19 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: hiring, Management, recruitment, retention | no comments»

Getting a job through a recruiter

As I have chance to hire people through recruiters, I usually use them only if I couldn’t find a good candidate at all from my channels and advertisements. From my perspective, hiring through recruiting has much more restrictions than hiring directly. The complexity increases as you have to deal with one more person who are demanding on your time and attention.

So is it bad a candidate to go through recruiter… » Continue

August 31 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: hiring, job | 1 comment»

Your Final, Essential Hiring Question

I remain convinced that the selection of staff remains the single, most critical process that managers of all stripes are engaged in. When you select the right person for the right job everything else is a cakewalk. Make a wrong choice, and you’re usually in for a long haul of compensating for it until you pull the trigger in correcting it.

Systems abound for a myriad of different recruitment strategies so… » Continue

July 13 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: hiring, interview, jobs, Management, recruitment, selection | 9 comments»

Staff for Your Weaknesses

E-Leadership has a good reminder for us all: our weaknesses aren’t to be dwelled upon. Instead, we might consider building connections to folks who are strong in the areas where we are weak.

Every person that you see standing on top got there with the help of others, the ideal of the “self made man” is a myth and if you see a leader without support your looking at fool… » Continue

May 11 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: development, hiring, Management | no comments»

How to Capture an Expert’s Value: 12 Tips

In bringing Managing with Aloha to the world of business I speak a lot; everything from 20-minute keynotes to week-long seminars and retreats. This week I’ve wrapped up 2005 with some terrific speaking gigs before ending my year with a 3-week holiday hiatus, a tradition in my leadership coaching company. These gigs were terrific because my clients were terrific, and I felt I wasn’t just a hired gun… » Continue

December 15 2005 | By Rosa | Tagged: expert, hiring, tips | 4 comments»