With websites that allow candidates and employees to review and rate your company, your reputation has never mattered more! Your company’s brand is more than just the products you sell—it is also your company’s culture, how you treat your employees, and the people you interact with outside of your organization (the candidates you don’t hire). […]
What is The Relationship-Driven Interview and Hiring Process?
The relationship-driven interview and hiring method is a personal, respectful and empowering approach to how you deal with candidates throughout the interview and hiring process. As a hiring manager, you have two choices. You can either empower the candidates you interview or dismiss them, potentially making them feel devalued. Relationship-driven leaders strive to show empathy […]
Become Pyrotechnician of People
As a manager, you have the potential to create a fire—passion—in others, but to do this, first, we have to create a spark. Think of the Fourth of July. People gather to watch the sky light up with beautiful fireworks. It’s fun watching a child gaze into the dark sky to see it light up […]
Candidate Crossroads
Your role as an interviewer has a direct impact on each person you meet. Some candidates will be at a crossroad in their lives. Some candidates may want to make a career move. Others not so much. Some, through displacement or termination, have been placed in a position in which they are forced to make […]
Avoid Surface Interviewing
Surface interviewing means you don’t fully dive in with questioning this individual. You meet your candidate; they seem nice, and you never get around to fully understanding what makes them tick, their career goals, background, and accomplishments. As recruiters, we see this all the time when managers are not properly trained, or they don’t prepare […]
Candidates Will Remember How They Are Treated
As professionals, we know that not every interaction with a candidate works out. Maybe you have met with a candidate and feel they do not have the skills necessary to perform the job, or maybe you feel that they just wouldn’t fit into your organization or team. Whatever the reason, there just wasn’t a spark, […]
