Hiring continues to be key to a companys success. Hiring the right staff with the skills AND characteristics required for success requires behavioral event interviewing. This article provides insights into effective interviewing and hiring.
Beat Your Competition with These New Years Hiring Resolutions
Another year has passed and its time to make your New Years resolutions. While others will be hitting the gym and chomping on nicotine gum, you can get a leg up on your competition with these hiring techniques to build your workforce in 2006.
4 Tips To Ensure A Rewarding Experience When Hiring Others
Hiring an employee is a part of just about every company, big or small. Whether you are working out of your parent’s basement or a multi-million dollar corporation, there are a few principles that EVERY boss should follow!
Nine Tips for Cracking the Personality Code
Personality assessments can help you hire effectively, manage employees better and deal with difficult people. To help you screen personality tests and testing companies, this nine-point checklist from the book Cracking the Personality Code can help you review assessment tools and support.
How to Use Assessments to Hire Effectively
According to the research in my book Cracking the Personality Code, today there are around 2,500 cognitive and personality tests on the market. So how do you decide which one to use?
How To Write A Startup Business Plan
Why Do I Need A Business Plan?
Why do you need to write a business plan? There are a number of reasons. Writing a plan dramatically increases your chances of success as an entrepreneur.
Here are just a few reasons why you would want to write a business plan.
1. Evaluating initial startup costs.
2. Determining what it will take to make a profit.
3. Analyzing your competition and it’s success and failures (which you can capitalize on)
4. Well defined rolls of all pe…
How to Apply for a Job Online
In an increasingly online marketplace, applying for jobs often means sending your resume and cover letter electronically. Some companies have online application forms right on their Websites.
Getting A Job Through Cold Calling
It sounds a little like a telephone on ice, but the cold call is actually an important tool of networking. Cold calling is calling a person or business without prior contact in order to inquire about employment opportunities. For many, the idea of cold calling is chilling.
Critical Guidelines You Need to Know Before Hiring Anyone
We don’t like to think about people doing harm to ourselves or others. The reality, however, is that we live in a country with one of the highest rates of financial crimes, including embezzlement, fraud, theft, etc. And, that’s just the beginning.
Are Employers Less Likely to Hire Muslims?
conducted at Davenport University by Murad Ali indicates that Muslims are the least likely out of all other ethnic groups to be hired by employers. Participants were students enrolled in either the MBA program or in business undergraduate courses. The type of full-time work the students engaged in ranged from entry level to senior executive. Many of the MBA students were already managers and had hiring powers within their companies.
How Emotional Intelligence Impacts Sales Performance and Employee Retention in a Dealership
One of the mysteries of the auto dealership world is why general managers and general sales managers assume that low productivity and the resulting high turnover are inevitable with their sales teams. Research has shown it is appropriate to apply the Pareto principle to salespeople whereby 20 percent of all salespeople now make 80 percent of all sales. That means 80 percent of the sales force fights over the remaining 20 percent of the business not produced by the top sales pros.
Are The Best Job Candidates Getting Away ?
Hiring top employees requires a streamlined recruitment process. Joe Pelayo looks at ways to ensure your firm isn’t letting the best candidates get away.