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How questions are all well and good if you’d like to find out about a person’s training and experience. For instance, “How did you learn to do that?” or “How would you go about doing this?” However, if […]
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The original kind of lazy avoids hard physical work. Too lazy to dig a ditch, organize a warehouse or clean the garage. Modern lazy avoids emotional labor. This is the laziness of not raising your hand to ask […]
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Although impolite, rude, and bullying social media behavior grab the headlines, ours is still a basically polite society. That’s why most of us rely on our pre-employment paperwork to ask job applicants the tough questions about drugs and honesty. Then […]
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To get a good read on a job applicant’s attitude toward taking responsibility, ask: “What do you think accounts for your success so far?” After the person answers, ask the more important, follow up question: “What’s kept you […]
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The sneaky thing about biases is that, for the most part, we’re unaware we hold them. To wit, “I am not prejudiced and I hate people who are.” One way this undermines your judgement in the hiring process […]
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“In the past five years, what is something that has happened to you that you had absolutely no control over and how did you deal with it?” (While a person may not have any control over an event, they do […]
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With unemployment at a 10 year low, now is the time to interview even those applicants you don’t think you’d hire. Here’s why: No matter the impression you got from the phone screen or their past work experience, […]
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What better interview questions to ask a job applicant than those about the criteria employees are actually evaluated against when it’s time for an annual performance review? And what better way to evaluate a job applicant than against […]
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When was the last time you interviewed for a job and why is this important? If you are responsible for applicant interviews and employee selection and have not been on the applicant’s side of the desk in the […]
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Take a look below at the telephone pre-screen one of my clients uses for frontline, hourly employees. Now, if you were the applicant and someone called you, asked you all those questions, and then you were invited you […]