Posts by CB Staff Writer 
- November 21, 2008
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HELP WANTED: 9 Things to Avoid with Job Postings
In concluding this series of tips and tricks to make the most of your job postings, I thought I’d run through some things you might want to avoid. Not to end on a negative note, and some of these may seem rather elementary, but one can never be too careful, because we’re talking about the process of attracting your next employee. You want to make sure the candidates you attract are the right fit, so it’s vitally important your job posting is perfect. Otherwise, you’ll end up with someone who’s not qualified, and will find yourself having to let them go and start all over again.
Avoid the nine items below to increase search relevance and success, and attract better candidates. Doing so, along with the other suggestions we’ve made, will help ensure you get the most out of your job posting efforts. So beware of the following:
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- Categories: Job Postings, Products
- November 18, 2008
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In the Elevator with Too Much Fragrance
While leaving the office yesterday, I entered the empty elevator on my way to the ground floor and parking lot. Suddenly, one floor away from my destination, the brass doors parted and a woman entered who was wearing enough perfume for about 18 people. Normally, I would just try to ignore the uncomfortable barrage of fragrance, but yesterday was different, because I’m just getting over a chest cold, and my cough reflex is pretty sensitive. Seconds after she boarded, an attack on my olfactory senses sent me hacking. I don’t think the offending excessively flowery-smelling fellow employee realized that she had irritated my nervous system, but I’m rather confident that her entrance into the elevator was the stimulus of my coughing fit.
For the record, this is an issue with both men and women. My dad is actually one of those guys who really enjoys cologne on the rare occasion that he gets to dress formally. For him, dressing up isn’t just a suit and tie–it’s suit, tie, and COLOGNE. The family has intervened a couple times, but some additional restraint would still be helpful.
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- Categories: Employee Retention
- November 17, 2008
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Whoops… 5 Tips for Managing Your Leadership Mistakes
Nobody likes mistakes. They can be honest, embarrassing, unforgettable or costly. But everybody makes them. Esteemed English writer Alexander Pope etched the phrase “To err is human” into everyday vernacular because everyone, from the mailroom to the boardroom, knows that nobody’s perfect. While that is easy to accept, it’s difficult to admit—no one wants to claim they made an error in hiring the wrong candidate or that their business model was flawed.
As a leader, you don’t want to look like an idiot want people to view you as being capable for your position, and mistakes can threaten that—especially the big ones. But protecting the image of always being right can be the biggest leadership mistake to make.
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- Categories: Leadership Development
- November 14, 2008
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HELP WANTED: 5 Tricks for Making Job Posting Magic
With your job posting, you’ve got the basics down, and your job description is top-notch—selling the position, your company, and providing the right information to ensure only qualified candidates will apply. But is it getting enough expressions of interest (EOI)?
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- Categories: Job Postings, Products
- November 10, 2008
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Quirky Interview Questions: Why and When to Ask Them (Plus a Few of our Own)
We’ve covered a few different interviewing topics here recently, such as styles, the most effective questions, and ways not to conduct an interview. Today, I’d like to cover something that’s stirred up a lot of debate regarding the process of interviewing: asking bizarre, off-the-wall questions. Some HR folks absolutely hate them, saying they are a colossal waste of valuable time spent with candidates.
Others, such as technology giants Google and Microsoft, make them an integral part of every interview.
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- Categories: Interviewing
- November 7, 2008
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HELP WANTED: 5 Tips for Spicing Up your Job Descriptions
The most important part of a job posting is the job description. It can also be the most difficult to create. In my last Hiring Site entry regarding job postings, we discussed the basic elements of your help wanted invitation. But because what you say in your job description carries so much significance in relation to the kinds of candidates your posting will attract, it seemed appropriate to drill down that topic a little further.
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- Categories: Job Postings, Products
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