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…
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Healthcare survives on the backs of its workers. A hospital, a hospice, an urgent care facility; no matter what the healthcare role, without good workers, it’s nothing. Recruiting healthcare workers comes with it’s own challenges, and must be handled with a different approach than most other types of recruiting. The question is, how? Special Considerations…
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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…
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A key part of attracting candidates to any role is establishing a reasonable salary for that role. A position that pays under the area salary average needs to have something very worthwhile to tip the scales, whether it’s great benefits, or something else. Conversely, a role that pays far above the average can be quite…
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The first step of any recruitment process is building up a candidate pool. Without a pool, no amount of filtering will bring you qualified candidates, and no amount of hiring will fill your roles. It’s no shock, then, to find that there are hundreds if not thousands of tools, platforms, apps, and services that help…
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Any time you have an open position for a company, and you need that position filled, you go through a particular practice. That practice of filling an open position is known as something, but the exact term used varies. Some people calling it staffing. Some people call it recruiting. Some people call it hiring. Most…
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Behavioral interview questions are some of the most important questions you can ask in an interview. They allow you to get a feel for how a candidate is going to respond in certain kinds of situations. Some of them are more useful than others, of course, and you should always be aware that people will…
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Finding the right person for a role is difficult at the best of times. When you have a broad candidate pool, you can narrow it down to pull the best handful of candidates, interview them, and pick the one most suited to the role. What happens, though, when you have hundreds or thousands of positions…
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In the old days, hiring a new employee meant collecting resumes and applications on paper. It meant painstakingly reading through each and filing them away, then contacting the best applicants – or just talking with the ones motivated enough to give your office a visit. There were no personality quizzes, no filter questions, and certainly…
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The candidate has great references, their resume is full of applicable skills, and they know all the right things to say in the interview. They’re curious and engaged, they ask the right questions, and they’re consistently interested in the job. On paper, they look perfect. Then once they start, it’s as if they’re a different…
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