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What Makes You a Good Candidate for This Position? 11 Sample Answers
What is one way a candidate can effectively answer the interview question, "what makes you a good candidate for this position?" To help job seekers answer this interview question, we asked HR experts and business leaders this question for their best advice. From...
10 Recruiting Strategies To Attract Passive Job Seekers
How can an employer attract passive job seekers? To help employers during the recruiting process, we asked HR managers and small business CEO’s this question for their best advice. From crafting attractive job postings to attending industry events, there are several...
5 Hacks to Nail Your Interview and remain Calm, Cool, and Collected!
You prepare, you practice, you are the perfect fit, but what if you let your nerves get the best of you? You want to muster everything inside of you to be calm, so why is that you feel like your sweating, your heart is racing and that you have forgotten the smallest...
Ushering in a Fresh Start
It’s the dawn of the new season, the days are longer, the sun is brighter and the air is fresher. For kids, spending endless days adrift sprinkle their thoughts. For adults, working career moms and entrepreneurs, it’s thanked God, the days are longer! I...
IDK…
Rarely am I put into a situation where I cannot see things from a full 360-degree viewpoint. I tend to think, rehash, and then rethink every situation or concept that I want to initiate before I do so. Being a minority business owner the onus of having to know all the...
Candidates
Ushering in a Fresh Start
It’s the dawn of the new season, the days are longer, the sun is brighter and the air is fresher. For kids, spending endless days adrift sprinkle their thoughts. For adults, working career moms and entrepreneurs, it’s thanked God, the days are longer! I...
7 Internal Candidate Interview Questions You Should Be Asking
What is one interview question to consider asking an internal candidate? Why? To help you interview an internal candidate, we asked human resource specialists and business managers this question for their best interview questions. From uncovering unknown skills to...
10 Ways to Vet a Candidate
What is your favorite way to vet a candidate? To help find good ways to vet a candidate, we asked HR experts and business leaders this question for their best tactics. From checking their references to asking the right kind of questions in their interviews, there are...
8 answers to “Why are you the Best Candidate for this Position?”
Why are you the best candidate for the job? Among a long list of common interview questions, this interview question may be the most important. Hiring managers, recruiters, and CEOs expect you to sell yourself and explain how you can be an asset—easier said than done....
IDK…
Rarely am I put into a situation where I cannot see things from a full 360-degree viewpoint. I tend to think, rehash, and then rethink every situation or concept that I want to initiate before I do so. Being a minority business owner the onus of having to know all the...
What to do when there are no job advancement opportunities.
What should you do if there are no job advancement opportunities in your current role? To help you with figuring out your next steps if there are no advancements in your current role, we asked business leaders and HR experts this question for their best advice. From...
Recruiters
Ten Tips to Identify the Right Recruiter for You.
Finding the right recruiter can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Here are a few clues to help you identify a recruiter that will assist you with a new career opportunity.
10 Daily Habits to Improve Your Outlook & Outcomes.
Spend the next 30-days embracing these 10 New Daily Habits and let them become part of a positive personal change that you enjoy for years to come. Read here.
5 Things Recruiters Should Be Doing Today to Build Their Businesses for Tomorrow.
The more time and energy you can spend dedicated to the five tactics in this blog, the better off you’ll be. The economy will recover, and competition will continue to be fierce for great talent and new clients. Those who take advantage of building their brand and pipeline will most certainly land on top.
Chew Up the Meat and Spit Out the Bone – Part III
So, here’s the third part of a three-part story that’s all about managing and listening to criticism at work or as part of a job search process. Part I talked about being able to listen to criticism to help you in your job or job search process.
Go Ahead: Thank Your Worst, Most Terrible Boss.
No one wants to make mistakes – they can be humiliating, frightening and even paralyzing. How we respond to our mistakes, and the reactions from others can be the difference between “waking up” and learning and “shutting down” and carrying a burden for a long time.
Are Counter Offers a Good Thing
The road to finding a new career opportunity is often riddled with twists and turns. It is not unusual to enter into conversations with an employer for a new job, only to find out they “moved in a different direction” and left you without substantive feedback on what your candidacy was lacking.
Employers
Candidate interview questions hiring managers should ask
In order to ensure that you are hiring the right candidate, you need to do an excellent job recruiting, vetting candidates and of course, conducting in-depth interviews. In fact, some companies are known for putting their candidates through rigorous interviews with several employees to make sure they are the perfect fit for the position.
Survivor’s Guilt
Survivor’s Guilt pertains to how an employee may feel after a massive layoff has occurred. With all of the transitioning that has been caused by the pandemic, I wanted to provide a few scenarios and tips of how to help those move forward after colleagues have been left behind.
12 Tips for Combating Cognitive Overload at Work
Sometimes, there is simply too much information to process at once. Whether it be customer data, inventory, revenue or even keeping up with the constantly changing economy, handling everything is a feat for business owners and employees alike.
In Living Color
Being that we live in “real time,” social media and virtual interviewing has sped up the process of interacting with potential hiring managers like never before. It’s perplexing why candidates opt to use outdated photos of themselves on LinkedIn and other sites that require an image.
13 Great Personal Development Goals for Work
It can be difficult to think beyond the bounds of your everyday duties on the job, but there is a huge benefit to setting and executing personal development goals with regard to work. The more you invest in yourself as a professional, the greater your chances of advancing your career through your newfound skills or knowledge.
Diversity Series Part 1: What’s Your Favorite Food?
With everything that has happened over the last few weeks, I thought about the above concept, as colleagues and media outlets contacted me to gain perspective on the diversity conversation. They wanted to know how hiring practices would be affected as we move forward from the ash and rumble of the riots.
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