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Assessing Communication Skills in an Interview

According to employer reports across the country, communication skills are the most important skills for employees to use on the job. So how do you assess the ability to communicate clearly and effectively when interviewing job candidates? “Gauging a candidate’s communication skills is something that is measured from the initial contact to the last contact,” […]

Interview Questions to Avoid Asking Candidates

You have separated the star candidates from that imposing pile of CVs, and now it is time to focus on interviews. To learn more, you will want to ask them about their work habits, past challenges, and whether they go to church every Sunday. Just kidding, definitely do not ask that last question. Why not? […]

How to Determine Job Market Value

When it is time to make an employee an offer, many small and midsized companies find themselves at a loss about calculating employee compensation. Part of the problem is failing to determine the overall job market value and how that impacts pay. Without a bona fide in-house compensation expert, lacking information on salary and benefits […]

How to Address Poor Work Performance

A successful workplace is a lot like a winning baseball team: everyone has a role to play and, ideally, everyone is accountable to one another. Errors can be costly, but should be expected from time to time, while the occasional home run benefits the whole team. Sometimes, though, managers have to make the difficult decision […]

How to Stop Workplace Bullying and Intimidation

No one ever said you had to be your employees’ best friend. Sometimes you have to call them out for lack of production, ask them to redo work that does not meet your standards, or even fire them. But when a strict management style crosses the line into what is basically workplace bullying, the entire […]

How to Improve Your Company’s Website Recruitment

Your company’s website design plays many roles: shop window, customer service portal and advertising board, to name a few. It is also a recruitment tool where many job seekers go to learn more about your organisation. They want to understand your company’s values, purpose, and culture – in other words, your employer brand. Here are […]

How to Conduct an Interview Using Strategic Questions

As the world of work is changing — constantly reorganising, fragmenting, and requiring market re-conceptualisation – your hiring strategies also need constant updating. You must have strategic interview questions as well as internal questions to ask candidates to see if they have the attributes you need to grow your business and adapt to constant change. […]

How to Write an Interview Invitation Email

You have read what feels like countless CVs and finally have your list of potential candidates. Entering the interviewing phase of the recruitment process can be both exciting and a little daunting. It requires additional time, effort, planning, and a lot of discernment. Step one, though, is getting your chosen applicants in the door for […]

Entry Level Interview Questions for Candidate Selection

Entry level job seekers often lack a job history, which can make it difficult to discern their job skills. But by knowing how to interview, and by asking appropriate entry level interview questions, you can better assess soft skills and match the right candidate with the job requirements. Generation Y Candidate Selection Generation Y candidates […]

Monster Job Ads: Best Practices

  The most important recruitment tool is the job ad. Once you research the position, meet with the hiring manager and create an action plan to fill this position, you want to make sure your job ad is going to get the job done. See how you can optimize your job ad setup for better […]