A part of the recruiting process is correctly setting expectations with your candidates.  As I mentioned, this is the candidates first encounter with you as a company so you want it to be professional, open, and respectful.  As a part of your communication during recruiting please don’t forget to thank candidates for applying but also, [...]

As many of you are going through the recruiting process now I felt I should address one of the many questions I get:
what is the typical salary range for a given position?
Now, of course, because we are the little guy we don’t have access to current salary surveys (they cost a fortune) but we do have access to [...]

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 [...]

In my last post I mentioned the typical steps in the recruiting/selection process of new hires.  One of the steps was to perform a skills assessment, if applicable.  In an interview many candidates can really talk the talk but can they walk the walk?  I’m mean, if you are interviewing for rock star code cutters, [...]