During the interview process, there are many questions you can ask. The Hiring Tips have provided a good number of these. Here’s another one you’ll find interesting: “Under what circumstances did you ignore or bend company policy?” Your applicant–we’ll call him Frank–may answer, “Oh, there were no circumstances where I did such a thing.” A [...]

Using LinkedIn to help you hire better staff.

Digging in and asking what a "job" means to your candidate can be very illuminating.

When it comes to hiring and holding onto your staff, especially top-notch staff, perks can be a prime consideration.

There are many types of employee tests available: -- Personality Tests -- Intelligence Tests -- Aptitude Tests

In an earlier Hiring Tip, I mentioned being in a Barnes and Nobles bookstore. I was checking out the "hiring" section and I noticed there were 80-100 different books on this important subject.

Integrity is a very interesting concept. I may be old-fashioned, but I believe the subject has taken quite a few hits over the last few decades. I also believe the concepts of right and wrong have been slowly but surely stripped out of our children's education, but that's a discussion for another time and another place.

In an earlier tip, we discussed the merits of hiring a veteran. In this tip, I'd like to discuss another "group" that could be valuable to you. Athletes.

We've touched on this subject in other tips, but have not addressed it directly. Let's do so here.

We’ve all made mistakes. Some of us have made more than the next person. The focus of this tip is not on how many mistakes one applicant has made. The focus is on how did he deal with those moments in time. Let’s look at this as if there are two very different ends of [...]