by Lou Adler
If you like someone when you first meet, you maximize their positives and minimize their negatives. If you don’t like someone, you maximize their weaknesses, and minimize their positives.
Now consider how many great candidates didn’t get the jobs they deserve because someone on the hiring team made a superficial judgment in the first minute, and then spent the rest of the interview seeking evidence to prove it.
by Todd Raphael (ere.net)
If you’ve ever shopped for a house, you know that after a certain number of days on the market, you start to wonder, “What’s wrong with this house?”
Something like that goes on with jobs. After a certain point, some folks ask themselves, “why hasn’t this job been filled?”
That point is somewhere around 72 days.
Randstad asked 2,000 people, “How many working days does a vacancy for a permanent job have to be open before it starts to look like a bad job that no one wants?”
By Shala Marks (recruiter.com)
During my senior year of college I interned with Avnet Inc., a global electronics distributor. For four consecutive years (2009-12) Avnet was named no.1 of Fortune Magazine’s “Most Admired” Companies and as I worked there, I started to see why. So many of its employees have been with the company for years. One lady I met in the finance department has been working at Avnet for 29 years; this is her first and only job. After meeting person after person who had worked for the company for multiple decades, I began to wonder why did they stay? Most people switch jobs numerous times in their careers, but what keeps those who work for just one company year after year, decade after decade?
by Leigh Branham (ere.net)
Because it is difficult to focus on implementing several practices all at once, you may wish to use this checklist to put items in order of importance or urgency as you begin to plan your employer-of-choice strategy.
By Caroline Ceniza-Levine (forbes.com)
A lot of job seekers wonder what happens behind-the-scenes in the hiring process. I asked a diverse group of recruiters from private sector to non-profit, from start-up through Fortune 500, from business to creative: What do you wish more job seekers knew?