Good talent is getting harder to find. Info about how to find good talent with a slightly entertaining perspective is hard to find too. I am hopeful you find this worth the minute it takes to read. I will send tidbits such as below out once a month. Please let me know if you have a direction or question you think would be of use and I will incorporate. Now...on with the show:
From the desk of a high powered CEO
in the staffing industry.
Hmm, well, how about from a fairly neat desk of a guy working in the staffing industry. That seems a bit more accurate. Andrew's thoughts:
Why, when we interview people do we ask them to lie?
Do you ever ask the question in an interview, "what is your greatest weakness?". I know I used to ask that a lot. What sort of answer do we expect? "I am a world class sleeper" or "I can slack off and surf the Internet better than most." You know the answer you are going to get. Something like, "I work too hard" or "I don’t like to quit a project until I know I have done the best job possible." So really, what does this question get us? I guess it can weed out the totally moronic from the average...so it does have that going for it.
A better question to ask? How about, "tell me about a time at your last position when things did not go well as a result of something you did and how you addressed the issue".
Ok, back to my high powered desk, I have some serious organizing to do so that I can claim a fairly neat desk in the next "Andrew's thoughts".
Andrew is the founder of CoreTechs Personnel, a national staffing firm.
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