Manager Tools - Hiring

Part 2 of our guidance on how to teach directs how to interview candidates for hiring.

Part 1 of our guidance on how to teach directs how to interview candidates for hiring.

The conclusion of our guidance on how - and why - to hire "overqualified" candidates.

Part 3 of our guidance on how - and why - to hire "overqualified" candidates.

This cast continues our guidance on how - and why - to hire "overqualified" candidates.

This guidance describes how - and why - to hire "overqualified" candidates.

Our guidance on hiring interns.

This cast describes how to increase your chances of re-hiring someone who has left your organization. They're called Boomerangs!

This guidance describes how to interview those colleagues on your bench...without interviewing them.

This cast discusses a way to build your recruiting "bench" during market downturns.

This guidance describes the first meeting a manager ought to have with a new team member.

When someone new joins your team, we recommend you communicate early about your key priorities.

This guidance continues our recommendations about topics to cover with new directs, encouraging them to ask questions about everything they don't understand.

We recommend spending time with each new member of your team encouraging them to tell the truth, and not be afraid of not knowing how to do something or the standard way of doing something in their new role.

We recommend spending time with each new member of your team encouraging them to tell the truth, and not be afraid of not knowing how to do something or the standard way of doing something in their new role.

New Directs need guidance on how to start on the right foot. We recommend a series of meetings in their first weeks, one of which makes clear: you have to create and maintain trusting relationships within the organization to succeed.

This guidance continues our recommendations about topics to cover with new directs, encouraging them to be on time with themselves, their work, and their commitments.

The Manager Tools Onboarding Checklist. Every task necessary to help a new hire become effective as quickly as possible.

The Manager Tools Onboarding Checklist. Every task necessary to help a new hire become effective as quickly as possible.

Your questions, our answers on what to do once you make a candidate an offer to turn them into a great team member.