by John G. Self | Jul 5, 2010 | Career Management, Recruiting
Effective interviewing skills are not part of the curricula of the vast majority of undergraduate or graduate business education programs. It is a subject that is rarely discussed in internal corporate management development courses. It is not uncommon, especially...
by John G. Self | Jul 2, 2010 | Leadership
There have been dozens of articles and blogs written on the subject of interviewing skills but few focus on the needs of the employer. Many organizations have good recruiting processes in place. The problem occurs when the candidate arrives for a face-to-face...
by John G. Self | Jul 1, 2010 | Leadership, Recruiting
Most recruiters do not involve themselves in the Onboarding process. The absence of Onboarding principles in a search firm’s system is a characteristic of the “Transactional” search model that has been in use for more than 50 years and is still...
by John G. Self | Jun 29, 2010 | Recruiting
Video interviews of a search firm’s recommended candidates will save clients money. These video interviews, which focus on issues relevant to the client’s search, are not the same thing as videoconference interviews, a technology that more and more...
by John G. Self | May 21, 2010 | Recruiting
The failings of the current transactional recruiting model used by the vast majority of internal and external recruiters are well documented. The most recent studies show that, on average, executives and managers recruited from outside an organization are pushed out,...
