With the unemployment rate virtually zero for hard-to-fill roles such as developers, software engineers, and certain other technical roles, it has been much more important for the interview teams to sell candidates on the positive aspects of your company. While it is still extremely important to make sure that a comprehensive assessment of the candidate is completed, for those candidates [...]
Interviewing perspective employees is an important part of the hiring process. In today’s world interviewing requires a balance between obtaining information and building rapport while avoiding potentially litigious questions. Here are examples of direct questions not to ask while interviewing a candidate. Specific questions are grouped by topic and do have alternative ways of getting legitimate information. Religion. Questions about [...]
A company generally receives many resumes (both solicited and unsolicited) from applicants who want to work for that company. In many cases, the applicants’ resumes are stored in the company’s applicant tracking system(ATS). Hopefully, the company’s internal recruiters are continually mining the ATS database as they receive openings to fill. Maybe your applicant tracking system has a search agent function that [...]
Companies usually experience difficulty retaining employees for the long term. Gone are the days where you stay with a job until retirement. As baby boomers begin to retire, many places of business are looking to reduce their turnover costs. Here are 5 steps to help you do this: 1. Hire the right people. This may seem like a no-brainer, but [...]
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