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Five Easy Questions That Should Be Asked at Every Job Interview
The interview process, if used effectively, can be a great tool to find out more about a job candidate and to obtain information needed to make hiring decisions, However, it is also a powerful opportunity to ask “due diligence” questions for the purpose of uncovering any “red flags” that may show the candidate is unqualified, unfit or dishonest. These five interview questions, if asked of all candidates, can go along ways towards protecting employers from the legal and financial nightmare of a bad hiring decision.

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (but remember the dark side of personality)
So the job candidate arrives looking great and eager to please. But beware-under the polished exterior may lurk a narcissistic personality. “Commercial enterprises are rife with narcissistic personalities” says to Joan Lachkar, author of an interesting book called “How to Talk to a Narcissist.”
Life Interrupted: How to Successfully Handle Unemployment.
Tips for successfully handling unemployment. Staying positive. Finding yourself in the midst of turmoil
10 Ways for Managers to Prepare for Interviewing a Job Candidate
Many business owners start interviewing people for a job without clearly understanding what kind of person would best fit into the organization. Hiring is done out of urgent need. Good hiring decisions are made with planning. Here are some ways to prepare before you start to interview.

The Assessment of Intellectual Functioning in the Work Environment
Most organizations need information to assist them in selecting people for jobs. A job candidate’s thinking capability is often the key to success in the current fast paced, hi-tech environment in which academic qualifications and even work experience may not be a good predictor.
How to Write an Eye-Catching Job Advertisement
Writing a job advertisement is very much like writing sales copy. The product you're trying to sell is a job, and all the fancy borders and screaming fonts will not attract that 'to die for' candidate.
What You MUST Know About Marketing Your Freelance Copywriting Services
Marketing yourself without a resume can be challenging, but Guillermo Rubio, AWAI Staff Writer, takes all the guesswork out of it. Here are the 7 things you must know to successfully market your freelance copywriting business.
Good Interviewing is mostly listening
Knowing how to interview can make a major difference in the quality of the people you hire!
Working with Ethical Gray Areas
The bottom line in leadership is that ethics cannot be codified or dictated. Ethical behavior is dependent upon the judgment and decision making by the leader. The best leaders are consistent and deliberate in their decisions when ethical gray is present. They communicate the decision, and more importantly, the reasons for their decision. They often collaborate the decision, not to cover their rear ends, but to seek wise counsel and tap into the judgment of others.

The Challenge of Hiring
Interviewing a new job candidate sounds easy. After all, you are in control. You have something to offer. You can select anyone you choose to select. Right? That sounds good but in reality interviewing a person to fill a job opening is one of the more difficult tasks you may face as a manager. It does require specific skills to do it right and increase your chance of hiring the ideal person for the job; the person that will stay and fit in with the culture of your company. Whether you employ one person, or five hundred, choosing the right employees can be a challenge. How do you k now for sure which person you interview is the right one for your company?

A New Approach to Applicant Attraction and Selection
Regardless of the stage of the economic cycle and the availability of candidates for jobs, employers need to make the best hiring decisions possible for the dollars they invest in attracting and screening job candidates. This is far more easily said than done, unless the employer is willing to take a new, objective look at how to attract and handle job candidates in general.

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Is Using Past Success In Hiring A Mistake?
What is vital for you to learn in selecting a candidate for an open sales position, is how well a candidate will perform in a job like the one you are trying to fill. Often a employment interview will never even touch on the candidate’s competence for the new position.

Using Your USP When Writing Job Ads To Attract Great Employees
I have heard many businesses moaning that they haven’t had a single application to an ad – and yet some businesses are snowed under with applications. What’s the difference? The smart business knows that in a candidate poor market you have to sell the benefits of working for your company BEFORE the candidate will consider applying for a job with you. This is where your USP or unique selling proposition comes in.
Reference Checks; are they reliable?
There is a big time investment in the recruiting process. The ‘up front’ work does pay dividends - “Hire hard; manage easy” is, I believe, the expression. It works. Many clients ask us to check references when they find a good candidate and we always, but gently, remind them that these references are provided by the candidate and are not, therefore, likely to produce anything remotely negative. Organizations would be better to pay the money to a professional organization
Avoiding Inappropriate Interview Questions
Interviewing candidates can often be a time-consuming and nerve-wracking process. While you want to find out as much as you can about the candidate and how they will benefit your company, you need to avoid asking questions which are deemed inappropriate or illegal. The following are examples of ways to find out information about your candidate without being inappropriate and still respecting the limits of the law.

Psssst... hire the quiet one...
So which candidate is going to get the job offer? The quiet one that answered all your questions very well, or that incredibly outgoing candidate that could barely stay seated? Leaning towards the firecracker? After all, who doesn't prefer the smiley super enthusiastic candidate?

10 Lessons from the Sales Candidate Who Smelled Like He Peed on Himself
It was quite the claim. I remember telling my client that the next candidate we were to interview was the best sounding candidate I had ever spoken with on the phone. Robert, the sales manager, went to the lobby to get the candidate and returned, an ashen look on his face. Ray, the candidate, followed Robert into the conference room and suddenly, I had the same ashen look on my face. It seemed that the best candidate I had ever spoken with by phone was, well, a bum!
Stupid Choices in the Selection of Sales Assessments
When you use an assessment in the sales recruiting process, it must be customizable so that criteria unique to your business, like I described above, can be factored in. That way, in addition to whether the candidate meets our criteria of a successful salesperson, we must be able to determine whether the candidate will be able to succeed in the face of the company's unique challenges.

Recruiting Strong Salespeople - The Sales Candidate Pipeline
Recruiting Salespeople - again? Yes. I cannot write enough about this! But, as usual, I'll address recruiting from a slightly different perspective this time - the candidate pipeline. Not to be confused with the candidate pool which is simply a single component of the pipeline. Your sales pipeline should have four stages:

A Must Before You Recruit
Building an ideal candidate profile is so often missed by managers when they start to consider recruitment and the process or structure it will take. They jump straight into the search and interview phases with little thought of what their ideal candidate profile would look like. If you do not know what you are looking for, how do you know when you have found it?
Behavioral Tips and Interview Questions
Today, most employers are using behavioral interviews instead of the traditional personal interviews for selecting the candidates. Behavioral interviews are the interviews where the candidate is given any situation and interviewer will ask the candidate about his reaction if he were in that particular situation. That means, the behavior of the candidate is reviewed in such interviews.
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