Can you really find out what you need to know about a job candidate in an hour-long interview? Probably not. No amount of interviewing, reference checking, and psychological testing is a substitute for actually working with a candidate on a real project. Next time you’re hiring, consider giving your top candidates a constrained project …
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8 Snap Interview Decisions Every Boss Makes
You might interview a job candidate for an hour, but sometimes it’s over in minutes.
Your Facebook Profile Can Predict Your Job Performance
It can take as little as 10 minutes for someone to go through your Facebook profile and predict how you’ll perform in the workplace.
Can a Credit Blemish Keep You From Landing a Job?
If you're looking for a job or thinking about changing employers, don't neglect to review a document almost as important as your resume: your credit report.
When College Grads Move Home: Six Ways to Get Them Off the Couch
Things are not looking so good for this year’s college graduates. Unemployment among those under 25 is at a record-high, they have more debt than any graduating class in history, and starting salaries are plummeting. That’s …
Want a Job? Want to Retire? Avoid these Strange, All-Too-Common Blunders
Neither getting a job in today’s economy, nor retiring after the portfolio-busting Great Recession, is an easy task. They’re both especially difficult to accomplish if you’ve made silly, shortsighted mistakes through the course of your quest. One quick tip: During a job interview, it’s probably not a good idea to answer your cell phone …
The downside of job interviews over Skype
I’m getting a number of e-mails and calls about this story on how companies are using Skype to interview job candidates over the web. All the comments so far have been positive—video chatting is a whole lot cheaper than flying out for an in-person interview, and who doesn’t like to save money. The more I sit with this story, though, …
So many ways to screw up a job interview
Here are a bunch, from OfficeTeam‘s survey of 150 senior executives at the 1,000 largest U.S. companies and 100 senior executives in Canada:
* “The candidate sent his sister to interview in his place.”
* “The person was dancing during the interview. He kept saying things like, ‘I love life!’ and ‘Oh yeah!’”
* “A job
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Google-stalking your interviewer is smart
A colleague writes:
I’m wondering if the landscape is changing regarding new graduates seeking jobs. Was talking with a friend from college who does a lot of interviewing, runs her own ad agency, and recently she’s been asked by kids to show them HER Facebook and job website, a complete reversal. It was as if they were interviewing
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In job interviews, the handshake counts
Hair combed? Check. Suit lapel free of latté dribble? Check. Resumé in some form of English? Check. Firm, strong handshake? Uh.
For many women and Donald Trump, the weird practice known in the Western world as the handshake is something we never master. Who cares, right? A friendly wave will do in most situations—and what with …
Need to ace that job interview? Pop a pill
Somehow, in my seemingly endless naivete, I long assumed that performance-enhancing drugs were confined to the rarified worlds of, I don’t know, performance. Professional baseball; Olympic gymnastics; Project Runway designers just before Bryant Park. (I’m kidding; I have no way of knowing if designers pop pills. But if they don’t, …
Offensive interview questions
A new survey by Development Dimensions International (DDI) and Monster.com asked job seekers and hiring managers to share the most inappropriate questions they’ve been asked during a job interview. DDI divided them into three categories, as below:
Crossing the Line … Illegal and Inappropriate
• “Would you join a church to get a
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