by John G. Self | Jul 19, 2010 | Career Management, Recruiting
There are millions of blogs. Everyone is competing for attention. I am no different. Over the past year, I have experimented with a multiple formulas in terms of what to post, when to post and how often to post. I have monitored my...
by John G. Self | Jul 6, 2010 | Career Management, Recruiting
The telephone interview is a killer. More potentially good candidates are eliminated from consideration based on their performance at this stage of the recruitment process than at any other time. Everyone is blind. You cannot see the candidate. They cannot see you....
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...