Backstop your hiring investment.
Hiring at lower levels can involve candidates with experience that might be like BV, but it’s not BV. Making an offer is making an investment. Why wouldn’t you backstop it if you could?
How To Spoil a Good Interview
You said a warm hello when your candidate arrived. You made introductions and arranged a productive interview agenda. It’s OK that you’re not there when the candidate is ready to leave, right? [...]
Why Don’t Candidates Believe Me?
Have you felt ho-hum when friends generalize about vacations where the “people were very friendly” or “the hotel staff offered great service”? Candidates can react the same when you tell them [...]
Always Be Hiring – The “ABC” for Candidates
One of your top analysts just left, and you face a sudden increase in new projects. Do you scramble to make a last-minute hire from a tiny pool of applicants in hopes you can fill this frantic need?
Avoiding Clichés Like the Plague
At the pace of today’s communication, we probably couldn’t survive without shortcuts in the way we characterize feelings and situations. It doesn’t take much for those shortcuts to turn into [...]
