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Minding the Gap
Check Your Biases to Hire the Best Career re-entry challenges are not just a working mother issue. Professional men and women who have been laid off, those who’ve taken a personal leave to provide care...
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Executive Hiring – Three Traps to Avoid
As a senior leader, CEO or entrepreneur, a large part of your long-term success will depend on your ability to hire and manage people who are highly competent at jobs you probably wouldn’t do so well...
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How to Read a Resume
Whether you’ve hired a thousand employees or are just beginning to look for your first; whether you’ve been on hiring committees or been the sole decision maker; whether you’ve hired people yourself...
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Centrepoint Q & A
September 2015 Question: One of my star employees just handed in her resignation. I wasn’t expecting this and don’t want to lose her. What’s your advice? Centrepoint’s Answer: It’s always a shock...
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Total Rewards: The Real Employment Deal
Bruce, a senior manager in a mid-sized engineering firm, has been actively involved in the hiring process for a Project Engineer. After many interviews, he’s extended an offer to a promising...
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When the Interview Goes Sideways
What happens when your job interview takes a wrong turn and things become awkward, tentative or even unfriendly? Whether you’ve answered a question incorrectly, made an vaguely inappropriate comment,...
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Orientation and Onboarding: Why You Need Both
It’s surprising how often we see the concepts of new employee “onboarding” and “orientation” used interchangeably. Yet, they are not the same thing. Onboarding is a reasonably new term, if not an...
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Hiring for High Impact
Five Changes to Make Now High impact hiring decisions represent a significant step in realizing the business results that so many entrepreneurs and business leaders want to see. The addition of an...
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Making the Most Out of an Employee Referral Program
In these ever-changing times of Skype interviews, LinkedIn profiles, and sophisticated applicant tracking software, many organizations are losing touch with the traditionally proactive ways of...
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Is Your Leadership Brand Delivering on its Promise?
Many of us are aware of personal branding as a professional development strategy, a concept translated from the world of corporate brands. A personal brand can be defined as one’s unique contribution,...
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The First Time You Hire Big
In any growing business, there are times when strategic decisions are made that dramatically impact the future of the organization. One of these giant leaps happens when a business owner or ownership...
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Whichever Side of the Interview You’re On, Always Follow This Rule
We speak to a lot of candidates who are pursuing new positions. We also consult with employers looking for that “perfect-fit” new hire. One of the key pieces of advice that we give to both sides...
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How HR and Marketing Collaborate For a Competitive Edge
It used to be that Marketing and Human Resources were two very separate functions within most organizations. Sure, they might collaborate on the odd employee newsletter or discuss ways to keep the...
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Crafting a Job Posting That Gets Results
How effective is your recruitment advertising at generating interest from top quality candidates? When it comes to marketing your open positions, the content and tone of your job posting can mean the...
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Hiring the Entrepreneurial Employee
Increasingly, employers are looking to tap into the entrepreneurial talent pool when hiring, particularly for pivotal leadership roles. The entrepreneur’s characteristics are highly desirable in...
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When the New Hire Disappoints
The anticipation related to bringing a new person onboard can, on occasion, give way to frustration once the reality of job demands set in. As an employer, you did your due diligence and carefully...
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