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Adding visual components to background checks

Soon, employment screening practices may be replaced by a more efficient system that quickly matches a person with their personal information, by adding a fingerprint.

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Weekend Roundup

HR Weekend Round Up 3/29/12 - March 29 2012

March 29-March 30 … Hot topic in HR:

Should your ATS stand alone?
Company Culture

Should your ATS stand alone?

Most conversations on Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) focus on how wonderful an ATS is and how helpful it is in finding the right candidate, but sometimes…

Assessing the candidate: Integrity
HR Best Practices

Assessing the candidate: Integrity

I like to get off of behavioral questions for a minute and get the candidate comfortable again by asking one of the usual…

Assessing the Candidate: Interpersonal Skills
HR Best Practices

Assessing the Candidate: Interpersonal Skills

Do you have a lone gunman or a team player?

Assessing the candidate: Results-focused
HR Best Practices

Assessing the candidate: Results-focused

(3 Results-Focused) At this point I usually get into asking more specific questions about their resume, like “why did you leave here?” and “what did you like best about this job?”…

Assessing a candidate: Honesty
HR Best Practices

Assessing a candidate: Honesty

When I am assessing a candidate’s outlook and general attitude, I am looking for their perspective, integrity, and honesty.

Assessing a candidate: The set up and the warm up
HR Best Practices

Assessing a candidate: The set up and the warm up

Now that you have your guidelines for interviewing in the form of a candidate- and position-specific interviewing template and you know how to evaluate their response to each of…

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Assessing a candidate: Problem, actions, and results

So, how do you find patterns in what candidates leave or offer in their questions, and how do these patterns inform your assessment of him or her?

Employment Verification

“Dumping” and “flushing” still practiced in employment screening industry

How do you know if your employment screening firm has actually completed the background screens you paid them for, or if they simply dumped them at 5 p.m.…

My interviewing process
HR Best Practices

My interviewing process

My interviewing process From the desk of Chandra Kill In general I follow the same pattern:

5 Great/Crazy/Behavioral Questions to Ask Your Next Candidate
HR Best Practices

5 Great/Crazy/Behavioral Questions to Ask Your Next Candidate

Let’s get the conversation started! Jan. 6, according to HRmarketer, was “Massive Monday”, the most popular day for people to look for jobs.

HR Best Practices

Do you know how not to hire?

Download “How Not to Hire” now  for a fun look at what not to do in the hiring process. Frankly, there are enough articles on how to hire. We’ve all read them.

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