Is your fear of making a bad hire impacting your business? When I coach individuals in their career searches, one of the characteristics I listen for is what I call “head trash.” This is a collection of thoughts and ideas, both objective and subjective, which have accumulated over the course of your career and can…
Are you headed for a Career Crash? I often use driving a car to illustrate the job search process with candidates. Let’s imagine your career is a coast to coast road trip. There are many stops along the way; some occasional side roads, hills to climb, valleys to navigate and even some bad weather here…
Talent Acquisition – The Accidental Competency I was having a conversation with a client last week during a kickoff meeting and he asked, “Where did you learn how to interview so well?” I had to stop and think about this for a few minutes. I have spent my entire career in the recruiting and human…
The hardest part of the interview process is preparing for situational or behavioral questions. The reason for this is that you really don’t have a clue what will be asked. How in the world do you prepare for the unknown? Here are some tips that will allow you to trump your competition. Become a…
The dreaded salary discussion Unless you are independently wealthy and work because you just love it and you’re a good person, then you will likely need to talk about salary at some point in the interview process. This is the subject that trips up even the most experienced professionals. Let’s talk about how to talk…
Enjoy the webinar! The September unemployment figures are in! Colorado’s unemployment is sitting at 4/7%. That means if you are trying to hire qualified people in Colorado you are having a hard time finding them. It also means that your next employee is currently working fulltime and really doesn’t have a lot of time to…
Previous Positions If you remember last month’s post, I let you know that we would spend a few cycles talking about tough interview questions and drill down a bit on how best to approach them during this highly stressful process. I polled the group and this month and we decided that talking about why you…
A precursor to my webinar on October 14 I was having lunch with Mark Cicotello at Mountain States Employers Council last month and we got on the subject of hiring (smile). He mentioned that one of the main challenges cited by MSEC members was competing for talent in Colorado. It’s interesting that the pain is…
Strengths and Weaknesses Everyone on the team spends time with candidates weekly – encouraging, coaching, preparing and nagging – that’s part of the job when you get to help people with their careers. It occurred to me that you might appreciate some help getting ready for those tough interview questions so that the next time…
When is it ok to talk about salary and benefits? I was talking with the team today and we recently had several candidates stumble over the salary/benefit/flex time questions so we thought this might be a good subject for this month’s article. Here’s the deal – unless you are independently wealthy and a workaholic, you can expect a…