Please find some links and notes from the 2 Regular Guys Podcast. This week Aaron and Terry will bring you lots of tips and tricks for both hiring and applying for jobs. In their years of experience, both Terry and Aaron have applied for several jobs as well as had the responsibility of hiring employees for the companies they have worked for. If you are charged with hiring candidates, they will help you establish a better hiring process, improve your interviewing techniques and help you find where top talent might be hiding.

If you are looking for work, they will help you identify companies you want to work for, how to stand out amongst the crowd and what you should be doing when looking for a job.

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Other discussions

* Just wrapped up DAX shows

* Next week’s show will be recorded and broadcast at our regular time since it will be during ISS Nashville and one of us won’t be there to broadcast live. Dave Gehrich with Atlas Screen Supply will be our guest. We’ll be talking “shop calibration.”

* ISS Nashville next week

* Our next Live Show will be NBM in Indianapolis June 4-6

The Job Application and Hiring New Staff How To

This show came about as I’m in the process of trying to find some additional staff to fill some needs we have in customer service on both the rep side and management side. After posting an ad on indeed.com I was flooded with nearly 250 resumes. Apparently, everyone without jobs these days is from the customer service field. Anyway, some of the applications left me wondering if maybe our country’s problem is not a lack of jobs, but a lack of qualified applicants for jobs that are available.

* Wife works at a local community college and they are actually hosting a job fair today. They have 105 companies who signed up to “exhibit” and all the spaces were sold out in the first day they released the offers.

Anyway, off my soap box as I could go on for hours about my frustrations with hiring. So, fortunately, I was lucky enough to attend a presentation by a gentleman named Brad Remillard of Impact Hiring Solutions. He gave me a ton of food for thought on what hiring is all about and I figured that Terry and I could build on that for you hiring managers out there.

Hiring

What are some of the things that companies do wrong when trying to hire new employees?

* There is no hiring process, it is just an arbitrary task we do once in a while.

* No process, training or review.

* Did you ever get training on hiring someone or did you just use the techniques people used on you when you were being hired?

* Does anyone have a scoring method to systematically evaluate candidates or is your system gut feel and first impressions?

* Our Job Posting / Descriptions Don’t Attract Top Talent

* Our method for posting jobs and trying to attract talent is the opposite of what we would do when trying to attract top customers, why?