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Is Your Company Website’s Homepage Jobseeker-friendly

When potential applicants visit your site, they are looking for two distinct links: About Us, and Jobs. When they click on About Us, they want to see the following elements.


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Create Questionnaires and Use Filters to Find the Candidate

Maximize your chances of finding the right person and reduce the amount of work that you have to do to get them.


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Hire Only Popular Facebook Users

If you could, would you like to snoop around in candidates Facebook accounts? Could Facebook be the ultimate background check?


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Sex, Lies and Video Interviews

Picture the joys of trying to detect phonies and liars when they’re 1000 kilometres away, in front of you solely as a projected image on your video monitor...


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Employment Law: Reference Checking in Canada

There is no legal impediment to asking prospective candidates to provide the names of referees and permission to contact them...


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Make the Most of Applications

Whether or not you hire them, job applicants can provide valuable feedback about your company's brand and hiring process.


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Hiring Right!

Do not expect that you will never have to guide and train this employee but satisfy yourself that she/he has the basic potential or "key ingredients" that are compatible with you.


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Common Reference Check Pitfalls

Given the state of the world, it is more important than ever to carefully check the references of all candidates for employment.


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How to Test-drive New Hires

This case study illustrates the importance of thinking about your company's long-term needs, not just the job you're trying to fill more immediately.


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How to Interview Candidates: Part 1

Even if you think you're an expert interviewer, a "seat-of-the-pants" approach can backfire. Prepare with this framework.

 

Hire Great People: Ten Simple Rules

You can't win a game without the right players. Follow these 10 tips to recruit winners for your team.

Technical Recruiting

Can you distinguish between candidates who really have the expertise you need and those who are simply good at slinging technical jargon?