Every so often people ask me for career guidance. I guess I’ve done pretty well charting my own career path, so far at least, and folks want to know the ins and outs. Well, here’s a shortish post that captures…
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Hiring: how I evaluate candidates
Frankly, I pictured Sam getting bored or frustrated as time passed. As a result, I didn’t invite Sam back for a second round of interviews. I was in touch with Sam afterwards and provided a complete explanation of my reasoning; it turned out…
Tagged with: changing jobs, hiring, interviews, optimization
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Management, Marketing
Posted in Careers, Leadership, Management, Marketing
10 common hiring mistakes
Sure, I’d welcome to the team a Computer Engineer with great communications skills, but STEM grads aren’t especially known as clear communicators. Yesterday I read an article called “What High-Quality Job Candidates Look for in a Company.” The piece contrasts the job and…
Tagged with: excitement, experience, hiring, interviewing, interviews, mistakes, STEM
Posted in Careers, Management
Posted in Careers, Management
How to Hire Rock Stars
Imagine that you run a start-up: no website; limited funds; no brand recognition, no HR experience. How are you going to attract and hire the best? Have you ever struggled to fill a job opening on your team or in…
Tagged with: Aterlo, brand personality, branding, Canadian Human Rights Act, Communitech, entrepreneurship, hiring, HR, interviewing, recruitment, start-ups, Vidyard
Posted in Careers, Management
Posted in Careers, Management
Why do you work where you do?
“When you work with your friends, it hardly seems like work.” I’m fortunate enough to work at a great organization. Well, I say “fortunate”, but it was actually a conscious decision. A little more than nine years ago I was…
Adaptability: A Critical Quality of Great Leaders
“The single biggest problem — the fatal flaw in choosing presidents, school board leaders, or football coaches — is that we believe we can predict the future rather than looking for a leader who can quickly adapt to whatever the…
Tagged with: confirmation bias, hiring, leadership, lessons, Obliquity, randomness
Posted in Books, Leadership, Management
Posted in Books, Leadership, Management
What’s more important to employers: excitement or experience?
Many a hiring manager has been forced to choose between two qualified (or, if he or she is lucky, outstanding) candidates, and sometimes the situation goes like this: Candidate A personifies excitement, and will attack the role with energy and…
Tagged with: excitement, experience, expertise, hiring, interviewing, interviews, passion, team-building
Posted in Careers, Everything, Management
Posted in Careers, Everything, Management
Three questions an interview should answer
While the actual interview will cover a variety of subjects and include many questions, it’s just a comprehensive mechanism to answer three basic questions. Years ago, I read an article in Forbes that said that an interview, from the interviewer’s…
Building a Championship Team
I take team-building very seriously: in the recreational sports world, poor teams lose and members go home without championships; in the business world, poor teams are weak links that can bring down organizations and cost people their livelihood – there’s…
Tagged with: excellence, futsal, goals, hiring, leadership, metrics, soccer, sports, team-building, teams, The Pitch
Posted in Everything, Leadership, Management, Soccer, Sports
Posted in Everything, Leadership, Management, Soccer, Sports
A (Nearly) Universal Truth about Interviewing
Going for job interviews can be intimidating, and in a multi-stage hiring process characterized by several callbacks the pressure can build. It’s not uncommon for a candidate’s anxious energy to start to get the better of them. This reaction is…
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