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There’s no “I” in “HR Department”

Being a job seeker in today’s economy is challenging. According to Glassdoor.com, the average duration of the interview process at major companies has roughly doubled since 2010. This is due to more applicants for each position, as well as uncertain economic conditions for many companies. But a lengthy hiring process also takes a toll on [...]

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What Does ‘Predictability’ Really Mean?

How utilizing incremental predictability can give you psychic-like abilities in making the right hiring decisions  As familiar as today’s generations are with a reference to the infamous Miss Cleo, this era of entrepreneurs and start-ups is also no stranger to the concept of predictability. In fact, most of today’s CEOs can likely identify a somewhat [...]

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3 Blogs Every Hiring Manager Should Follow

One of the most dynamic features about the internet is that it provides a limitless resource of knowledge and facts. Prospective candidates can fully prepare themselves for an interview with thousands of websites, forums, and blogs before sitting down with a hiring manager. While this is wonderful news for any potential interviewee, what about useful [...]

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Sales Manager or Serial Killer? How to Better Predict Who You’re Really Hiring

Hiring is a tricky ordeal. We cast out a wide net through job positing sites, social media, and our friends’ friends hoping that among the plethora of applicant responses we get back there will be at least one top performer to choose. Unfortunately, there are a lot of problems with the haphazard hiring approach that [...]

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Gamification in Hiring: Reduce Employment Roulette

How gamification in hiring makes the process more engaging for applicants and leaves employers with less of a gamble When done right, hiring a new employee is like winning the lottery. Not much effort goes into it, yet you receive an extremely valuable reward. Unfortunately, the chances of you winning the lottery are pretty slim. [...]

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The Buzz About Video: Chequed.com Reviews Take the Interview

Human Resource departments everywhere now have another reason to praise technology- the video interview- not to be confused with unsolicited video resumes. Technology has had a hand in making our lives easier and the goal of video interviewing companies, including Take the Interview, is to streamline the hiring process by sending out pre-recorded video interviews [...]

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Selling Health: Finding the Best Talent and Personality in Medical Sales

Medical sales is both a highly competitive and difficult market for candidates to get into and stay in. However, it is also a challenging field for hiring managers whose responsibility is to navigate through a sea of potential talent. It takes just the right combination of aptitude, experience, and personality to hire a medical sales [...]

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Reference Checks vs. Background Checks: They’re Not the Same Thing!

Any hiring manager who has ever conducted an interview process has dealt with either a reference or background check – most likely both. But aside from being a standard part of conventional hiring wisdom, do you really know what these procedures are actually looking for? While they’re both checking out something, they’re functionality is derived [...]

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Could Embellishing Your Resume Get You the Job?

We’ve all done it at some point in our careers – swapping out one mediocre task for a more grandiose keyword that we assume will get us closer to the final cut for a vacancy. But does the habit of inflating our skills and previous experience pay off in the end? The short answer is, [...]

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How to Identify High Performers Before Their First Job

Have you ever hired someone who seemed amazing… but started floundering once they were on the job? Pareto’s Principle tells us that 20 percent of your staff tends to be responsible for 80 percent of your overall production, so it’s vital to identify and bring in those high performers who are going to form the [...]

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