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The Importance of a Background Check #INFOGRAPHIC
Does your company, or just you, do background checks on all of the employees you hire? If not, do you ever think about whether or not you should? Well, according to the statistics presented in this infographic from Visual.ly and First Contact HR, doing a background check is way more important than you think. Like this article? Subscribe to our HR digest to receive a weekly email with fresh and informative content.
When Hiring Managers Disagree on a Candidate
Finding that person perfect for the job can be a difficult task. Hiring managers and employers know that all too well. It is especially difficult if there is more than one person in on the decision. You have to agree on what you think is most important in a candidate and whether or not any of your candidates fit that description. You might think that Candidate A is best, but your colleague might believe Candidate B is better suited. What’s even more difficult is disagreeing with a superior. Perhaps you are hiring for a marketing assistant and believe you found Continue reading
Tips Hiring Managers Can Learn From Santa
With Christmas right around the corner, holiday season is in full swing and jolly old St. Nick is sprucing up his long, grey beard for the big night. The naughty or nice list is being drafted and checked, elves are preparing themselves and countless hours of preparation are coming to a head. Wait a minute, is Santa getting ready to hire new employees or is he getting ready to deliver millions of gifts and Christmas cheer to the well-behaved children of the world? Well, we all know the answer to that question, but there is actually much and more hiring Continue reading
How to Hire Long-Term Employees #VLOG
When you have a new position to fill for your company or department, do you want to hire someone that will stay for six months, or for two years? It’s no secret that when you are hiring, you want to hire someone that will stay with the company for a long time. You already know that the average time it takes to hire a new employee is 45 days. If it takes that long to hire an employee, do you really want to have to do it all over again in just a few months? Chances are that answer is Continue reading
What Business Leaders Can Learn About Hiring From Zach Nelson
You may have no idea who Zach Nelson is, and perhaps you’ve never heard of NetSuite either. However, there is much hiring managers can learn from the way he is dealing with his company’s expansion. Since his company went public in 2007, it has nearly doubled in size. That seems like a dream to most business leaders, but it wasn’t experienced without any difficulty. As NetSuite- a company that specializes in customer-management and logistics software- started to grow, Nelson and his chief people officer Marty Réaume realized they were having an issue with retaining employees. It’s an issue many companies Continue reading
4 Tips for Hiring Long-Term Employees
When you are hiring for any position, you want to be sure you are hiring long-term employees. You don’t want to have to fall back into the hiring process all over again. Especially since, on average, it takes about 65 days for a hiring manager to fill an open position. With those 65 days comes a loss of productivity, a loss of revenue and the potential for a lot of stress. Needless to say, when you hire once you want to be sure you won’t have to do it again for quite some time. So what can you do to Continue reading
4 Hiring Tips You Can Learn from the Marathon
The super storm that ravaged the east coast this past week has been an ongoing source of grief, stress and anger. Sandy tore through the northeast and has left hundreds of people out of their homes and waiting for assistance. Although it is certainly one of the minor setbacks the city had to face, the New York Marathon was cancelled just two days before it was set to go on. The cancellation of one of the most popular runs in the country angered many runners that trained for months to participate. However, the marathon and its cancellation got Spark Hire Continue reading
Video Interviews: The Not-So-Obvious Candidate Traits You Can Learn
When you are interviewing a candidate for an open position you are paying attention to many things. If you are a seasoned hiring manager or employer, you are looking at the candidate’s body language, listening to what they are saying, analyzing their answers and much more. Before you even meet them you are judging them based on their resume, cover letter and other application documents you require. Unfortunately with traditional hiring you can’t pick up on much until you bring the candidate into your office for an in-person interview. Thankfully though, video interviews are making their way into the hiring Continue reading
Is Your Job Seeker Looking For a “Right Now” Job?
With the job market still in a sad, sluggish state, the number of workers that are displaced and unemployed is still too high for any kind of comfort. As a result you’ll see seasoned, overqualified job seekers seeking positions that seem more fitting for young adults or recent graduates. On top of that, you’ll be swamped by a sea of resumes with each job post you put up. In fact, the average number of applications submitted per job opening is at 118 for the fourth quarter of this year. Of those applicants, only about 35 percent will meet the basic Continue reading
5 Interview Questions to Ask In One-Way Video Interviews
Screening candidates in the hiring process is not only time-consuming, it can get very tedious. If you are a hiring manager that is used to hiring day in and day out, then it’s likely you already have a routine you follow for the phone interview. You know what kind of information you want to gather from the candidate and you know what you are expecting from top job seekers. One-way video interviews should be no different. Spark Hire recently harked on why HR pros should ditch the phone interview. But once you start participating in video interviews, what kind of Continue reading
