37 Posts Found

Companies fail to choose the candidate with the right talent for the job 82% of the time, Gallup finds.

Content: Article | Authors: Jim Harter, Randall J. Beck | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Some characteristics and behaviors are common to top performers across many different roles. Here are four ways that high-quality candidates may respond differently than the rest to the right interview questions.

Content: Article | Authors: Bailey Nelson, Brandon Rigoni, Joseph Streur, Kevin Campbell, Sarah Houle | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

In an effort to minimize mishires, many companies have adopted extensive hiring processes … that we believe is as damaging a form of inefficiency as mishires themselves. […] And there’s no strong evidence that it’s actually even working.  The treatment has become worse than the disease.

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In their review of their hiring processes, Google discovered that they could capture 86% of the value produced by … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Alexandra Ham, Atta Tarki, Tyler Cowen | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

When you’re trying to balance the hiring opinions of so many different interviewers, you don’t always wind up with the best candidate. You end up hiring the candidate that skates through by getting a more neutral opinion from most interviewers.

Content: Quotation | Author: Liz Kofman-Burns | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

When adding a new team or role, take the time to clarify a few things: What a role is, what it’s meant to serve, how existing people have been making up for the lack of that role, and how their lives are going to be changed by new people coming in — in positive and potentially negative ways.

Content: Quotation | Author: Cristina Cordova | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

Spotting folks who can become high-impact leaders at your company is exceptionally challenging in an interview setting. While you can probe IC skills with a coding test or other function-specific take-home projects, unraveling all the nuances that go into managing people can be incredibly tricky — especially with just a narrow sliver of time with each candidate.

So when sitting down with management candidates, interviewers tend … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

Many companies today are struggling to hire and retain talent, but more often than not the problem is self-inflicted: They’re simply not using a broad enough array of tools, sometimes because they don’t even know the tools exist. In this article, the authors list 40 tools — some familiar but underutilized, others unfamiliar and innovative — that can help companies find and keep the people … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Allison Bailey, Joseph Fuller, Manjari Raman, Nithya Vaduganathan | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

For folks looking to get started [creating a culture code] [begin] with this prompt: Who are the kinds of people that we think we want to work with? These can’t be platitudes that everyone would say yes to. Like, we want to hire smart people. Intelligence can’t be a core cultural value because no one would say they want to hire stupid people. You have … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Dharmesh Shah | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Culture, Hiring, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

When it comes to recruiting you can always tell someone what they want to hear, but within six months you’ll both know whether it’s true. Listening for what a candidate is truly looking for instead of just pitching will save you wasted cycles.

Content: Quotation | Author: Ximena Vengoechea | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

Organizations need to develop and implement clearly defined rules regarding how they use online information about job candidates, a new paper on cybervetting says.

Content: Article | Author: Matt Shipman | Source: Futurity.org | Subjects: Diversity, Hiring, Human Resources

We think that we made it easier 20-something years ago when Monster started posting jobs. It makes it easier for the employer, it doesn’t make it easier for the job seeker. You’re not getting rejected, you’re just never getting past the technology.

Content: Quotation | Author: J.T. O’Donnell | Source: Vox | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

The “talent shortage” is likely rooted in employers’ inability to find people with the experience managers want rather than a true shortage of talented recruits. Put another way, when hiring, employers are favoring experience over talent, therefore overlooking recruits who could excel in certain roles despite not having the preferred background for those jobs. […] Gallup defines talent as an individual’s naturally recurring patterns of … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Anson Vuong, Kevin Campbell | Source: Gallup Management Journal | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

Eight recommendations to help firms win the war for talent.

Content: Article | Authors: J. Stewart Black, Patrick van Esch | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources, IT / Technology / E-Business

Widespread “good enough” hiring processes aren’t always mindful of the candidate experience — and most importantly, may not lead you to extend an offer to the best person for the role. The advice that follows from Peoplism is to intentionally examine the pieces of your hiring cycle that are already in place (and perhaps even be able to trim down some steps in your current … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Amber Madison, Liz Kofman-Burns | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources | Company: Peoplism

When you’re hiring a role, you make your list of what you want this person to be great at, and your list is 12 items long. What happens is you end up hiring for lack of weakness rather than exceptional strength in any one area — that leads to a mediocre outcome. Push yourself to define the role in terms of three specific key attributes … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Marco Zappacosta | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

For most of my interviews, I actually ask very little about how they would solve a particular problem. When it comes to questions like “What was the hardest challenge you’ve ever faced?’ often a lot of candidates have canned answers. Instead, I focus on the incentives. What do they care about? What motivates them? What drives them? If it’s an hour-long interview, I’ll spend 40 … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Rick Song | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

People who are more creative also tend to be more playful, unconventional, and unpredictable, and all of this makes them harder to control. No matter how much we say we value creation, deep down, most of us value control more. And so we fear change and favor familiarity. Rejecting is a reflex.

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When the same tests are applied to decision-makers and authority figures in business, … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Kevin Ashton, Shane Parrish | Source: Farnam Street | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources, Innovation, Organizational Behavior

If you’re a hiring manager, this is the perfect time to check in and rededicate yourself to running an even better process, whether that’s by doubling down on your existing approach or trying out new hiring tactics that break the mold. In particular, there’s an opportunity to reconsider the very qualities you’re hunting for.

Over the years, we’ve interviewed hundreds of startup leaders, collecting their go-to … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Hiring, Human Resources

Be very thoughtful about who’s in the interview loop, and make sure everybody in the loop has veto power. If you don’t care what somebody thinks, don’t put them on the panel. And if you do care what they think, make sure that you empower them to have responsibility in the process.

Content: Quotation | Author: Steve El-Hage | Source: First Round Review | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources

Companies are struggling to fill open positions, but the job platforms they use often screen out promising candidates just because they don’t tick every box. Joseph Fuller probes the challenges—and opportunities—of “hidden workers.”

Content: Article | Author: Joseph Fuller | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Hiring, Human Resources