Posts tagged: Candidate assessment

Why Hiring Fails: Hiring Mistake #2 – Superficial Interviewing

Next to not defining success, superficial interviewing is the second most common mistake made in the hiring process that leads to hiring failure. There are two key elements to effective interviewing: Asking the right questions and validating the truth in the candidate answers.   Asking The Right Questions Where do most CEOs, Executives, and Managers [...]

Sunday November 13th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

What Can You Do When Hiring Isn’t Working?

Question: We have a pretty extensive interviewing process in our company. We spend a lot of time making sure the person has the right skills and experience, yet our last few hires didn’t work out. We aren’t sure what else we can do to hire people, any suggestions? Companies often think that because they have [...]

Thursday July 7th, 2011 in , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Is Experience Overrated in Selection?

Anthony Young posed the question in a posting on the Ad Age Blog whether experience was overrated in selecting advertising agencies. Here’s a short excerpt of what he said: In new business, agencies frequently like to speak to their experience, but do clients place the same importance on it? In a recent new-business meeting we [...]

Monday April 25th, 2011 in , , , , , | No Comments »

“She Seemed Perfect For The Position.” What Went Wrong?

These are the exact words of a CEO I was recently talking with about a search to replace a candidate they had hired six months earlier and wasn’t performing.  The CEO explained how they had spent a lot of time with the candidate, she had multiple interviews, she completed a DISC assessment, and simply put, [...]

Monday August 16th, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Boost Productivity in Tough Times By Getting Connected to Your People

“Watch your words: they become your thoughts. Watch your thoughts: they become your actions. Watch your actions: they become your habits. Watch your habits: they become your destiny.” – Frank Outlaw Personality tests not only help when hiring, they just might be a manager’s best tool to connect with employees. You can manage the hard [...]

Tuesday August 10th, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Talent Plus Effort Equals Great Results

As you probably know by now – my favorite metaphors are sports related – especially basketball metaphors . For our new readers, a little background: In addition to a full schedule as a retained executive recruiter, speaker, author, and partner in a thriving Internet hiring business, I also coach high girls basketball and run a [...]

Monday August 9th, 2010 in , , , , , , | No Comments »

Why You Should Measure Self- Motivation

In 25 years of Executive Search, Barry Deutsch and Brad Remillard, hosts of this radio show podcast, have interviewed over 250,000 candidates for more than 1000 search assignments. They’ve discovered a few core traits of success that high performers possess and poor performers lack. One of those core success traits is high levels of self-motivation [...]

Saturday April 10th, 2010 in , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Upgrading Your Team in the Recession

Back in July, I made the recommendation on this blog (and was interviewed by Forbes Magazine Online) to use the recession as a unique point in history to upgrade your team. Have you selected one or two key roles and upgrade the positions yet? If not, what’s holding you back? Don’t miss out on this [...]

Tuesday February 9th, 2010 in , , , , | 2 Comments »

Can’t Find People? They Are Hiding In Plain Sight – 3 Examples

Finding people is a consistent problem we encounter just about every time we ask CEOs or key executives what their biggest issue is when it comes to hiring. If it isn’t in the top three it is always in the top five. Yet when you ask them what their process is to find top talent [...]

Monday February 1st, 2010 in , , , , , , , , , , , , | 5 Comments »

Hope and Luck Are Not A Hiring Process

Hiring is one of those processes in many companies that is often ignored, until it is needed.  My partner Barry Deutsch and I have spoken to hundreds of CEOs and key executives in the last three years, and there is a theme that most of these CEOs and key executives agree upon, which is, they [...]

Tuesday December 8th, 2009 in , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments »
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