Sure, I’d welcome to the team a Computer Engineer with great communications skills, but STEM grads aren’t especially known as clear communicators. Yesterday I read an article called “What High-Quality Job Candidates Look for in a Company.” The piece contrasts the job and…
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10 common hiring mistakes
Tagged with: excitement, experience, hiring, interviewing, interviews, mistakes, STEM
Posted in Careers, Management
Posted in Careers, Management
How to Hire Rock Stars
Imagine that you run a start-up: no website; limited funds; no brand recognition, no HR experience. How are you going to attract and hire the best? Have you ever struggled to fill a job opening on your team or in…
Tagged with: Aterlo, brand personality, branding, Canadian Human Rights Act, Communitech, entrepreneurship, hiring, HR, interviewing, recruitment, start-ups, Vidyard
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Posted in Careers, Management
What’s more important to employers: excitement or experience?
Many a hiring manager has been forced to choose between two qualified (or, if he or she is lucky, outstanding) candidates, and sometimes the situation goes like this: Candidate A personifies excitement, and will attack the role with energy and…
Tagged with: excitement, experience, expertise, hiring, interviewing, interviews, passion, team-building
Posted in Careers, Everything, Management
Posted in Careers, Everything, Management
Three questions an interview should answer
While the actual interview will cover a variety of subjects and include many questions, it’s just a comprehensive mechanism to answer three basic questions. Years ago, I read an article in Forbes that said that an interview, from the interviewer’s…
Interview Lessons from Subway
Needing to get caught up on some reading and reviewing for my team, I worked from home yesterday. With apologies to my friends over at Quick Sandwiches (my preferred sandwich destination), I went to a Subway nearby to pick up…
Tagged with: interviewing, interviews, upsells
Posted in Advertising, Careers, Everything, Marketing
Posted in Advertising, Careers, Everything, Marketing
Becoming a Better Interviewer
I don’t particularly like conducting hiring interviews. Thinking about it, there are two main reasons: They take time They require me to meet other people in (what I consider to be) an unnatural circumstance On the surface, and perhaps below…
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