The Best Qualified Candidate Rarely Gets Hired (Update 2008)

Best Candidate for the Job

That may get your attention. Generally when I present to groups on the topic of interviewing, people ask about the interviewing process. How many times have you sat in an interview and wondered, “How will this person (the hiring manager) be able to determine if I am the best qualified candidate? Instead of probing my…

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Successful Home Office Worker Tips

Work from home Tips

Have you decided that you want to work in your home office? Has your company suggested that you work out of your home? Do you want to be successful working in your home? This is easier than you may think. With the exception of a year and a half when I was the Recruiting Manager…

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Focus Friday – Sales Management – Private Label Snack Foods

The Vice President of Sales position is with a growing $150 million snack food business based in the Midwest. This CPG Company has a large private label component, a branded component, and is developing a direct to consumer component. This is a new position to lead our sales force and specifically to grow our sales…

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Mange Your Resume?

Manage Your Resume

Mange and Manage; Manager and Manger; Form and From; Or and Of? What do these words have in common? They all sail safely through Spell Check. They also have very different meanings. For instance, if you are a “manager” of people and mistakenly write “manger”, I picture a small wooden crib with straw bedding. More…

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Retaining Young Adult Employees

Valued employee

This is RecruiterGuy again to give you another quick preview of coming attractions at the CUNA YES Summit in Austin, TX on Dec. 5, 2007. You work too hard to find great talent. Failing to retain them is a shame – and not very cost effective. In order for you to retain high impact talent,…

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