Hiring and Retaining Top Talent Blog

Careerbuilder.com recently listed the 14 top interviewing questions.
When I read the first few, I thought this was about ridicules questions too ask. Then I realized careerbuilder.com was serious.
Sorry, but we can’t disagree more. Some of the 14 are good and get to the ability of the candidate to actually do the job. But most are the standard […]

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A Sure Way to Have a Candidate Fail is Ask Questions About Experience
We have assisted thousands of hiring managers with interviewing. In just about every case most interviews focus on candidate’s experience.
This for the most part is a complete waste of time. The interviewer spends hours often in great detail going thru every position the candidate has […]

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Behavioral Interviewing is Flawed
The concept behind behavioral interviewing is that, past performance is the best indicator of future performance. Our position is that this concept is flawed for two reasons; 1) too much depends on the qualifications of the person interpreting the indicator and 2) it completely ignores the ability to adapt to the new culture, […]

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