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Hiring Tips Podcast — 281 episodes
What Do You Do With The Job-Hopper?
How to Improve Your Candidate Pool
When An Employee Recommends Someone To Be Hired
What Can Pre-Screening Candidates Tell You?
Mistakes on the Résumé — How Serious Is This?
What Would Keep You Here For Five Years?
What Are Your Hiring Criteria For Each Position?
What If Your Co-Workers Aren't Cutting It?
When Many Apply For the Same Position
How Well Does He Communicate?
How Long Will He Be With You?
Sometimes It Best To Say Nothing
You're New. What Would You Do First?
How Would You Handle An Angry Co-Worker? An Angry Customer?
What Would You Do Differently?
Should You Use a Recruiter (Part Two)
Should You Use a Recruiter? (Part One)
How Did You Handle Disagreements?
Is The Customer Always Right?
Will They Contribute to the Organization's Mission?
Can We Generalize About Young Applicants?
Salespeople — What Should You Look for?
Boring Web Site Hiring Pages
Is The Applicant a Job-Hopper?
Do You Use A Checklist With Each Applicant?
This Job Is Very Stressful And…
Making Promises You Can't Keep
Should You Test Your Applicants?
Should You Indicate the Salary in Your Recruiting Ads?
What Do Applicants Ask You?
What Would Your Employer Say If We Asked?
How Important Is Empathy?
The Hiring Spreadsheet
The Battle For Hourly Workers — Part Two
Does The Applicant Feel Entitled?
How Would You Handle An Irate Customer?
What Happens When They Are No Longer on Their Best Behavior?
The Battle For Hourly Workers — Part One
How to Frame Interview Questions
Have You Tried Asking Your Staff for a Referral?
A Bit of Hiring Advice from Lee Iacocca
Do You Have an Employee Referral Program?
Your Best Day, Your Worst Day?
You Are Doing Background Checks, Right?
Would a Different Job Suit You Better?
Interview With Suzanne Kelly — 4
Interview With Suzanne Kelly — 3
Interview With Suzanne Kelly — 2
Interview With Suzanne Kelly — 1
What Have You Done to Become More Effective?
How Much Money Are You Making?
What Motivates You To Come Into Work?
The 80/20 Rule and the Hiring Interview
Demanding Manager?
If You Didn't Have To Work At All…
Will They Ask For Advice?
How Do You Plan Your Day?
Take The Interview Out of the Office
How Would Your Previous Employers Rate Your Performance?
Don't Get Too Attached
Take Me Through Your Résumé
What Skills, Knowledge and Personality Traits Needed For Each Position?
Practice, Practice, Practice
Can They Improve Things Around Them?
You Are Hiring Them, Not Their Skills
Can They Adapt?
Reference Checks — Some Dos and Some Don'ts
Are You Reading Your Company's Reviews?
Do You Cherish Your High Performers?
How Clearly Can You Define the Position?
How Optimistic Are They?
How Well Do They Follow Instructions?
Who Is Controlling the Interview?
Employment Gaps on the Résumé
Your Successful Actions File
Questions: Open-Ended Versus Closed-Ended
Fear Of Getting It Wrong
Written Questions Before the Interview?
If They Can't Follow Instructions, Get Them A Clipboard
Is It Possible to Hire Within?
Does Any Candidate Have Exactly The Right Skills?
How Will They Perform in a Crisis?
Video Interviews for Remote Applicants
Do They Like People?
How Do They Define Success?
Can They "Sift" Through Data?
Don't Write Them Off So Quickly
When the Tables Are Turned
Can They Prioritize?
How Generous Is She?
How Fearless Are They?
How Appreciative Are They?
What Do We Owe You?
Should We Stop Looking For Team Players?
Would You Let Your Son or Daughter Marry Your Applicant?
Are Soft Skills Eroding?
Sample Work Versus Probational Hire
The Hiring Juggling Act
Just How Much Should A Top Producer Fit In?
What Are We Really Looking For?
When In Doubt, Ask More Questions
Goals, Goals, Goals — How Important Are They?
The People I Need Just Aren't Out There!
What About the Diamond In the Rough?
The Second Interview
To Go With Your "Gut" Or Not
Can You "Hear" Them Smile?
What EXACTLY Does the Position Require?
How Do They Treat Other People?
How Fanatical Should You Be About Hiring The Right People?
Have Them Turn The Tables On You
How Would They Handle An Irate Customer?
What Does A Company Owe Its Employees?
How Long Do You Plan On Sticking Around?
Getting Off to a Good Start
Lets See What You Can Do!
How Much Homework Are They Willing To Do?
Always Be Hiring
What Does The Word Accountable Mean To Them?
How Did They Improve the Workplace Around Them?
How Long Do You Wait For the Right Person?
An Extra Set of Eyes and Ears Might Help
If You Had a Time Machine, What Would You Do With it?
Do They Know It All?
Have They Ever Volunteered?
10 More Interview Questions
Is Your Hiring Interview a One Way Street?
Ask Him To "Make the Rounds"
The Really Bright Guy Who Ruins Your Company
When All Else Fails...
What If The Applicant Has Personal Issues?
How Well Do They Collaborate?
How Do They Handle Unpredictability?
Contribution Goes Both Ways
Asking Weird Questions
Digging Deeper Into References
What Was Your Greatest Achievement?
A New Spin on Checking References
Have Them SHOW You How
Are You Doing Just One Interview?
Confidence With a Healthy Dose of Humility
Did Curiosity Really Kill the Cat?
How Important Is "Attention to Detail"?
The "You're Not Qualified" Approach
Projects Instead of Résumés?
Would She Give Away 300 Loaves of Bread?
Customer Loyalty or Company Loyalty?
The Demanding Manager
The "We'd Like to Keep You Here" Interview
If I Called Your Boss Right Now, What Would He Tell Me?
How Long Do You Want To Work Here?
What Isn't Fair?
What's Not On Your Résumé?
Underpaid and Overpaid
"What's The Next Job You Would Like to Have When You Leave Here?"
Give Them An Audition!
"What If You Win the Lottery?"
Is Passion Overrated?
How Can One Possibly Equal Three?
Let's Walk Through Your Résumé
Count the Number of Times She Said…
Why Did You Leave Your Job?
"Hire Slow, Fire Fast"
What Do They Read?
The Importance of a Smile
Tell Me About Your Fellow Employees
Are Younger Applicants Distressing You?
Hiring Tips From the Folks at Google #3
Hiring Advice From the Folks at Google #2
Hiring Tips from the Folks at Google #1
What Does the Candidate Want to BE?
The Hiring Revolving Door
On A Scale of 1 - 10
A Very Key Question to Ask Prospective Employees
Did The Prospect Really Say That?
Is the Prospect a Better Fit Somewhere Else?
The Problems and Solutions Interview
Interviewing Millenials
Hiring the Salesperson, Part Six
Never Miss a Good Chance to Shut Up
You're Not Hiring The Résumé!
Using Google, Yahoo and Bing
Have Them Work for a Month On a Conditional Basis
Have Him Work for a Day
Hiring the Salesperson - Part 5
Take Him For a Tour
What Did They Do When They Didn't Know What to Do?
Are You Hiring Mainly On Skill and Ability?
Don't Hire "Bad Apples"
Does the Job Align With Their Goals
How Did They Handle Employee Arguments?
She Just Rubbed Me the Wrong Way
The Hiring Pie
Discuss the Purpose of the Position
What Was a Typical Work Day Like?
What If He Is the Owner?
Disagreements With Management
Why Do You Want to Work Here?
Hiring the Salesperson, Part Four
Hiring the Salesperson, Part Three
Hiring the Salesperson, Part Two
Hiring The Salesperson, Part One
Why Would You Hire Someone You Don't Need?
How Did They Handle Stress?
Tell Your Company's Story
How Easily Do They Get Bored?
Please Feel Sorry For Me and Hire Me
Describe Yourself in ONE Word
Do They Criticize Too Often and Too Easily?
How Can He Benefit Your Company?
How Did They Get Along With Others?
Bringing New Hires 'Into the Fold'
Would You Invite Your Candidate on a Camping Trip?
What Happened When Things Went Poorly?
Will They Fit In?
New Hire Wants to Change Everything!
How Important is Humility?
Will Your New Hire Improve Those Around Him?
Do You Have a Hiring Eye to the Future?
Group Interviews?
Attitude Versus Skills, Revisited!
"Your Company Needs To Be A Bit Spiky!"
Don't Oversell!
Collaborate!
Hire A Mom!
The Two Sides of the Hiring Coin
A Lesson From the World of Sports
Should You Let Your Applicants Know They Didn't Get the Job?
The Résumé
Under What Circumstances Would Your Applicant Ignore Company Policy?
What Is LinkedIn and How Can You Use It?
What Does a "Job" Mean?
Perks, Perks and More Perks
Should I Use Employee Testing?
Interviewing the "Well-Read, Well-Drilled" Applicant
What Level of Integrity Are We Dealing With?
A Great Place to Find New Recruits
How Reliable Is Reliable?
What Has Your Applicant Done "Wrong?"
Show Them the Money!
I Love This Guy, But I Can't Afford Him
Which Is More Important…The Right Attitude or the Right Skills?
How Important is Work Ethic?
Are You Looking For the Perfect Candidate?
Hiring People You Are Not Able to Afford
What Kind of Manager Are You?
How Committed Are They?
Hiring Veterans
Ten More Phone Interview Questions
Ten Questions for the Phone Interview
3 Reasons To Use Phone Interviews
How Eager Are They to Learn?
An Ethical Workplace Attracts Ethical Staff
How Prepared Are They For the Interview?
Hiring People Just Like You?
The Importance of "Team" Players
Discuss the Purpose of the Company
How Much Does Appearance Matter?
The Power of Observation
What Do You Do When They Beg For the Job?
How Flexible Are They?
How Good Are Their Problem Solving Skills?
How Does Your Applicant Define Success?
Part-Time Versus Full-Time
Your Existing Staff Can Help
Describing What You Need and Want
Wording of Hiring Ads
What If Their College Credentials Are "Impeccable"?
How Did They Handle Conflicts?
Do They Have An Entrepreneurial Spirit?
Who Do They Find Successful?
Ask Very Specific Questions
How Does the Applicant View the Future?
How Would They Feel About Being Paid Too Much?
How Important Is YOUR Willingness?
How Important Is Willingness?
Are They Willing to Go the Distance?
Interview, Interview, Interview
Don't Make Promises You Can't Keep
Do They Have a Sense of Humor?
Should You Hire a Friend?