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Interviewing Tips & Techniques
A Recruiting Update
I had a wonderful conversation with a former client yesterday, who is looking for a very specific person to fill a very specific position, and he asked me what I thought about the labor market. Here are my thoughts: Everywhere you look there is a report of more...
How Hiring Goes (vs. How You Want it To Go)
Last week, I was scheduled to present to a group of business owners in Omaha, Nebraska. I got on the plane on Tuesday on time, and we took off. On the 1 hour flight to Omaha, we got ½ way there and turned around, because a woman on the plane had a medical emergency....
Deep Fake Candidates
I have a former client in the tech industry who called me out of the blue. He said that he was worried that he had just gotten off a zoom interview with a fake candidate. I said “How did you know?” “Well… frankly, I am just not sure.” I will tell you this: he is right...
Do You Have a Trust Fund?
I had a client call the other day, and we were talking about his company culture. He was telling me about his company core values and how he has worked so hard on developing a culture that he is proud of. Then, out of the blue, my client asked me “Do you have a trust...
What Interview Questions Should I Ask? Part 2
If you haven’t read part 1, read it here. When I made my horrible bad hire that made national news, I immediately started reading every hiring book I could get my hands on. I needed help! I needed guidance on how to hire people so that I could run my restaurant. It...
What Interview Questions Should I Ask? Part 1
Every year when January hits, I get inundated with emails from people who are hiring. They are overwhelmed with applications, and they MUST start interviewing candidates. In a bit of a panic, they email me this question: “What questions to you ask potential employees,...
How to Read a Resume
You have two recent graduate candidates: Candidate A) has a degree in right industry. She worked her way through college, has volunteer experience, a 3.93 GPA from an Ivy League university, and has 1 minor typo on her resume that would not have been caught by spell...
Diet, Exercise, Fire Someone
Approaching the new year, here I am stuffed full of cheese and chocolate, and I had a former client call me out of the blue. He said: “Beth, I have this employee who started off great, but this person is making my life hell!” He went on to describe the ultimatums and...
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Over the Thanksgiving holiday a few years ago, my daughter and I were listening to the radio. A song came on that we both love. I began belting out the tune at the top of my lungs and sang along to the chorus of the Zac Brown Band song. I sang “Long Gone” along in...
Rudolph The Brown-Nosed Reindeer
I recently conducted a training on how to improve the hiring process, and one participant blurted out “What do you do about a brown-noser? We have this guy who doesn’t perform until the manager walks through the door. Then, this guy sucks up to the manager and the...