by John G. Self | Jul 10, 2015 | Career Management, Recruiting
Some of the worst answers I ever heard in candidate interviews came in response to one question. What are your weaknesses? Candidates know, or should know, that this question is coming, just as certain as the sun will rise in the East and set in the West each day. ...
by John G. Self | Apr 27, 2015 | Recruiting
John has written several blogs over the past 12 months regarding the importance of candidates being authentic in their interviews. Today’s post discusses an approach employers can use to test candidate authenticity and leading to a feeling of trust that they are...
by John G. Self | Dec 15, 2014 | Career Management, Leadership
This may surprise some in healthcare, but dozens upon dozens of health system and hospital CEOs and other senior executives have admitted to me in my more than 20+ years in executive search that they are not that good at conducting interviews. I have heard a version...
by John G. Self | Aug 29, 2014 | Career Management, Recruiting
There is a common theme from executive level candidates who are frustrated that someone with lesser skills, record of success or credentials, was selected. How did that happen? And with that common theme, there is this common candidate question: What could I have...
by John G. Self | Nov 1, 2013 | Leadership, Stories
We all remember our first jobs, working retail, hospital orderly, file clerk, gofer, (as in go for the coffee, go for the lunch, etc.). They covered the waterfront, the mundane to the backbreaking. The jobs could be interesting or boring but they taught us about the...
