As you may have noticed my clients have been on a hiring spree which is why I’ve been writing so much about different facets of the recruiting process.  Unfortunately, during the interviews, more than one candidate has asked me:
what’s your exit strategy?
Fair enough question, I guess.  But why aren’t they focusing on what the company [...]

Clearly I’m in an “HR” kinda way these days.  So, in order to round out our series on the recruiting process, prescreen interview questions, and online skills assessment I’ll also throw in reference checks.
Reference checking is extremely important - although I’ve always cheekily thought: who would actually provide a reference that wasn’t going to provide [...]

As I mentioned before there has been an uptick in sales at a lot of my clients which triggered a release of the tight grip on expenses.  As such, some open headcount positions that were previously on hold are being actively recruited for and, of course, given that everyone is looking for work we are being inundated [...]

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In our professional lives we are often asked the same questions [...]