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Recruitment and Selection

Look here to learn how to find the right person for the job. From making potential candidates aware of your project to choosing the one who fits the role best.

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Why Should I Work for Your Company?
- by Howard Adamsky & Danielle Monaghan
Interviewing is a two-way process. What do you answer when a well-qualified candidate looks across the desk at you and asks, "Why should I work for your company?"

Interviewing Doesn't Work Very Well
- by Kevin Wheeler
More good advice on how to improve the quality of candidates.

How to Prevent Just About Every Common Hiring Mistake There Is
- by Lou Adler
How to avoid 12 common hiring problems.

What Great Recruiters Do to Prevent Counteroffers
- by Howard Adamsky
How to do all that is possible to see that you do not lose a hire to a counteroffer.

A Candidate's Bill of Rights
- by Kevin Wheeler
Candidates are increasingly disenchanted with recruiters, recruiting websites and human resources. Mistreated, ignored and often frustrated, candidates just aren't saying nice things about recruiters lately, and with just cause.

Weak Employees? Blame Recruiting!
- by Dr. Wendell Williams
In today's jobs, workers have to sell complicated products, manage cross-functional teams, make on-the-fly decisions, deal with customers, solve problems, etc. All this complexity makes it necessary for people to be smarter, learn faster, work more proactively in teams and care more about quality. So, Mr. and Ms. Recruiter, what are you doing about separating the wheat from the chaff before you make the hiring offer?

The 17 Dumbest Things in Recruiting
- by Dr. John Sullivan
If you are not already, be critical of everything you and your colleagues do in recruiting. Chances are, your company is committing one of the 17 dumbest things in recruiting even as you read.

Using Root Cause Analysis to Hire Better People
- by Lou Adler
Root cause analysis is a method of digging deep to uncover the real cause of a problem rather then relying on superficial information to make decisions. Amazing things happen when you apply it to recruiting practices.

12 Elements of a Comprehensive Recruiting Strategy
- by Dr. John Sullivan
Noted expert Dr. John Sullivan explains the 12 elements of essential recruiting strategy.

Employee Perception a Common Roadblock to Diversity Referrals
- by Dr. John Sullivan
The success or failure of your employee referral program is driven by the perceptions of current and former employees and their ability to articulate unique reasons why anyone should want to join your organization. When it comes to diversity recruitment, this becomes particularly problematic. Read why.



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