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How to Shortlist Job Applicants

You’ve posted your ad and received a big stack of applications from job seekers. But now, how do you decide which prospects are top candidates and deserve to come in for an interview? Below, we’ll take a look at why and how to shortlist job applicants, including how to establish your selection criteria for shortlisting applicants, and how to remain objective and fair during the process.

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Apr 07

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When to Hire Your First Employee

When to Hire Your First Employee

You took the leap, became an entrepreneur, and founded your own company. Your customer list has grown, and you’re beginning to see real results — and also starting to feel swamped. Even if you realize you need help, you may be feeling anxious and wondering, “How do I know if I am ready to hire? What if something goes wrong?” These feelings are natural, but there are some telltale signs that let you know when a small business should start hiring.

Hire Success

Mar 17

How to Write a Successful Job Ad

How to Write a Successful Job Ad

Creating an attractive job ad can be challenging, but knowing how to write a job advertisement is critical to attracting top talent to your organization. Let’s take a look at why job ads are so important, how they differ from job descriptions, the necessary elements, and some tips on how to write a job advertisement that will get the attention of the best candidates.

Hire Success

Jan 25

How to Develop an Effective Job Description

How to Develop an Effective Job Description

Putting together a clear, thorough, and well-developed job description takes time and effort. In fact, many organizations fail to recognize just how a job description is different from an ad/posting and how valuable effective job descriptions are. And many companies don’t put in the work necessary to create them.

Hire Success

Jan 22

11 Ways to Speed Up Your Hiring Process

11 Ways to Speed Up Your Hiring Process

In a landscape of talent shortages and increased competition, hiring new employees can prove challenging. Top candidates are often swept off the market quickly, meaning businesses who fail to act fast are left to choose from a smaller, less-qualified applicant pool. And in addition to making you miss out on talented employees, a slow hiring process can create unnecessary expenses, straining your hiring budget.

Hire Success

Dec 14

How to Reduce Your Employee Turnover Rate

How to Reduce Your Employee Turnover Rate

If you’re like many managers, you’re looking for ways to reduce your employee turnover rate. Between severance pay, temp coverage, hiring expenses, and training new employees, the costs of losing staff — especially your top performers — can quickly add up.

Hire Success

Dec 07

7 Hiring & Recruitment Mistakes to Avoid

7 Hiring & Recruitment Mistakes to Avoid

When it comes to hiring new employees, the stakes are high. Every time you make a bad hire, you’re left with the costs of recruiting, onboarding, and training a replacement.

Hire Success

Nov 30

How Much Can a Bad Hire Cost Your Business?

How Much Can a Bad Hire Cost Your Business?

Ever hired the wrong person for a job? Probably. You thought you had the perfect candidate for the position — only to find out a few weeks or months later that they didn’t have the right personality or skills you needed.

Hire Success

Feb 16

When to test job applicants

When to test job applicants

At Hire Success®, we’re often asked when companies should use employment testing to get the best results.

Hire Success

Nov 08

The good and bad of interviews

The good and bad of interviews

Have you ever discovered that a person you hired to do a job – someone you felt you really “knew” after an extensive resume review and interview process – turned out to be totally different than what you expected?

Hire Success

Nov 02

3 Crucial Steps to Preventing Bad Hires

3 Crucial Steps to Preventing Bad Hires

It’s Monday morning. Your ad to fill a key sales position is running. Your search to find the best person for the job is about to begin. You know what you’re looking for, and you can’t afford to hire the wrong person.

Hire Success

Oct 22

Structured vs. Unstructured Interviews

Structured vs. Unstructured Interviews

There are two basic styles, or models, of interviews employers usually use when hiring new employees: structured and unstructured interviews. Just like job candidates, each one has its own strengths and weaknesses. But do the advantages of a structured interview outweigh the advantages of an unstructured interview?

Hire Success

Jan 30

How Wellbox uses Hire Success® to keep up with a huge volume of applicants

How Wellbox uses Hire Success® to keep up with a huge volume of applicants

When Wellbox advertises an opening, the applications don't just pour in. It's more like a tidal wave.

Hire Success

Jan 29

Succession planning and employee testing

Succession planning and employee testing

When many business owners think about succession planning, they think first about creating an exit strategy before retirement or the sale of their business. Owners and executives consider who should take over the business at that time – for instance, will it be a family member, an employee, a member of senior management or an outside buyer? – and how the transition will take place.

Hire Success

Nov 13

The importance of dominant traits

The importance of dominant traits

At Hire Success®, our Personality Profile is designed to help you determine the dominant traits of your most successful employees and then use that information when interviewing new candidates for the same job. But what is a dominant trait, and why does it matter?

Hire Success

Oct 28

Why the best employees are free

Why the best employees are free

If you’re in charge of hiring employees, you’ve probably had one or more experiences where a person you hired turned out to be a big disappointment.

Hire Success

Oct 26

Developing Baselines - The untapped wealth of information in your office

Developing Baselines - The untapped wealth of information in your office

At Hire Success, we refer to the task of identifying and quantifying personality characteristics and traits as developing a baseline. Whatever you call it — determining an “ideal profile,” “benchmarking,” etc. — the process involves determining ideal standards for hiring or promoting employees.

Hire Success

Oct 26

Why Not to Use Myers-Briggs® for Pre-Employment Screening

Why Not to Use Myers-Briggs® for Pre-Employment Screening

Many hiring managers are familiar with the Myers-Briggs® Type Indicator (MBTI) — a self-report questionnaire designed to indicate psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.

Hire Success

Oct 24

Should job applicants study for an employment test?

Should job applicants study for an employment test?

One of the most frequently asked questions we get from employers is if they should send out “sample questions” so applicants can prepare for a pre-employment test.

Hire Success

Oct 24

When hiring employees, what’s in your toolbox?

When hiring employees, what’s in your toolbox?

Every business wants to hire the best employees and reduce turnover. Since having great people who are good at their jobs is vital for any organization, you’d expect companies to go to great lengths to find the right applicants for a job opening.

Hire Success

Oct 23

Interview questions that make a difference

Interview questions that make a difference

“What are your strengths and weaknesses?" “What interests you about this job?” "Where do you see yourself in five years?” Heard these interview questions before? So have your candidates.

Hire Success

Oct 22

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