Interviewing
Phone vs In-Person Interviews: The Pros and Cons of Both
Conducting interviews is a core part of the human resources team, but there are several ways to go about it. Two of the most common options are phone interviews and in-person interviews. Both options are viable for interviewing a candidate, but they have their pros and cons. Picking the right interview for the right situation…
Read MoreTop Tools and Resources to Create Pre-Employment Assessments
A critical part of the hiring process is testing your candidates to make sure they will fit in with the company. This means testing several different aspects of a candidate; their ethics, their personality, their skills, and so on. Hiring the wrong people can seriously hurt your company morale, culture, happiness, and productivity. There’s a…
Read More5 Methods for Screening Your Job Candidates Remotely
The ongoing global pandemic has thrown the labor market into disarray. Dramatic unemployment, dramatic increases in hiring, a massive shift towards remote work, and an increase in remote hiring have all thrown historic trends out the window. Companies right now are exercising due caution. Many have made the shift to remote work and, six months…
Read MoreHow to Create an Interview Scorecard (With Free Templates)
When it comes to interviewing candidates for a position, all too often the final determination comes down not to objective facts, but to gut feelings and impressions left by the interview. This leads to candidates who might be charismatic and charming but underperform at their job when technical tasks and computers – which can’t be…
Read MoreStates That Prohibit Employers From Requesting Salary History
Hiring managers, HR departments, and anyone in charge of recruiting need to be aware of salary history requests, and the bans of those requests that may exist in your areas. Why would you want to request the salary history for a candidate? For decades, this was a common practice among businesses and hiring managers. By…
Read MoreScreening Software Engineers – Tips for IT Recruiters
Although IT recruiters have the same challenges as recruiters of other types of positions and industries, they also face some challenges that are unique to the IT industry and IT candidates. All recruiters needs to find good sources of candidates, find a large enough pool of qualified candidates, attract passive candidates, and find candidates with…
Read MoreHow to Interview a Rock Star Recruiter
Here at ContractRecruiter.com, we have over the years developed and refined a successful and repeatable process for screening and interviewing corporate-side, contract recruiters that has served us well. I thought I’d share it with my readers so that you too can think about adopting it for your own organization. I use the term “contract…
Read MoreBehavioral Interview Questions for Project Managers
Today’s candidate-driven job market means employers, hiring managers, and recruiters have to take advantage of every effective recruiting tactic they can. One of the best recruiting tactics is using behavioral interview questions, a mainstream method of job interviewing which employs questions about candidates’ past behaviors in specific work situations. The goal of asking behavioral interview…
Read MoreIncrease Quality of Hire with Better Interview Questions
The interview is one of the best ways to assess candidates for presentation, verbal communication skills, and culture fit. Recruiting today is different than it was even a few short years ago, requiring a paradigm change, especially in the type of creative interview questions you need to ask. Recruiting experts like Georg Bradt, management consultant…
Read MoreAre you Asking Legal Interview Questions?
Do your recruiters and hiring managers know the first rule of hiring? The law assumes that everything asked during job interviews will be used to make hiring decisions. Every interview question should be prepared with that in mind, and limited only to issues required to assess a candidate’s qualifications for the open position. Always avoid…
Read MoreAre you Asking Candidates Illegal Interview Questions?
Are you Asking Candidates Illegal Interview Questions? If you want to get caught in the hot seat and have a laser spotlight on your company (not in a good way), ask questions during recruiting like the NFL asked of University of Colorado football player Nick Kasa: “Do you like girls?” Otherwise, you need to conduct…
Read MoreAn Effective Approach to Behavioral Interviewing
RECRUITING QUESTION: “Our hiring managers say they don’t have time to do anything during interviews other than ask about skills. Is behavioral interviewing really necessary?” The Recruiting Division’s Answer: Use Sullivan’s approach to behavioral interviewing to identify relevant skills and experience and insight into candidates rather than just screening out applicants. Behavioral Interviewing the Way…
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