Tag: #hiringprocess

  • Effective interview preparation is critical

    Effective interview preparation is critical

    Interviews can be nerve-wracking, but thorough preparation can make all the difference. Doing the right prep beforehand can help you feel confident and perform your best. Here are five essential things every candidate should do before walking into an interview. 1. Research the Company Thoroughly Before any interview, you need to know the company inside…

  • AI in the recruitment process

    AI in the recruitment process

    AI is rapidly gaining popularity. When it became available, people immediately started using AI to write general resumes, and recruiters started using AI to gather lists of global contacts. AI is being used on both sides of the hiring desk. The job search is becoming an AI vs. AI battle involving ridiculously high numbers. The…

  • The long and winding job search

    The long and winding job search

    A Chief Marketing Officer that I’m working with just heard about a job opening six months after being turned down by the company. The other candidate apparently didn’t work out. At my last recruiter gig, after several interviews, the company CEO was still contemplating a marketing manager candidate about 9 weeks after the hiring manager…

  • What is Branding Cohesion?

    What is Branding Cohesion?

    One of my colleagues posted the following: Ensure branding cohesion: — Align your resume and LinkedIn messaging. — Create a unified narrative of your career story. — Make life easier for recruiters by staying in sync. Aren’t they all the same thing? Branding consistency and cohesion. But that’s not even the part that gives me…

  • Get Better-Leadership & Team Management

    Get Better-Leadership & Team Management

    Picture this, you invest in hiring the right people, providing training and think everything is going well, until one day, you see their resignation letter on your desk. You start wondering, what went wrong? Wasn’t I doing everything right? Here’s the hard truth, people don’t leave jobs, they leave managers and bad bosses. It’s not…

  • Lousy interviews

    Lousy interviews

    I was helping a Chief Operating Officer who is an expert at process optimization. He specializes in identifying the problems and gaps, and fixing them. The companies are much better off after hiring him. During one of our calls, he told me that he had had a screening phone call a few days before with…

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