Manager Tools - Hiring

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

What to do once you make a candidate an offer to turn them into a great team member. Chapter 1 is the basics, why to have a process.

What to do once you make a candidate an offer to turn them into a great team member. Chapter 1 is the basics, why to have a process.

What to do once you make a candidate an offer to turn them into a great team member. Part 1 is the basics, why to have a process.

The conclusion of our guidance on how to share shortcomings in evaluations like reviews and interviews.

This guidance explains how to share shortcomings in evaluations like reviews and interviews.

There are effective and ineffective ways to notify a candidate you’ve interviewed that you won’t be offering them.

There are effective and ineffective ways to notify a candidate you’ve interviewed that you won’t be offering them.

During this cast, we complete our series on making a job offer to a candidate. If you haven't listened to last week's cast (part 1), please do so first!

This cast explains a simple way to make a job offer to a candidate.

This guidance recommends what questions to ask of a job candidate's references, if you progress to that stage.

This guidance recommends what questions to ask of a job candidate's references, if you progress to that stage.

This cast describes a technique for measuring your team and/or organization's ability to recognize talent.

Don't rank candidates as you are interviewing, individually or collectively. It biases the hiring process.

This cast describes what to do when a manager has two candidates for a job that meet the standard, but you can only offer one candidate.

This cast describes how to decide between two good candidates in a hiring situation.

This cast concludes our conversation on how to increase the chances that you will get to hire your favorite candidate when he or she has to interview elsewhere in the organization.

This cast describes how to increase the chances that you will get to hire your favorite candidate when he or she has to interview elsewhere in the organization.

This cast explains how to capture interview results in a fast and simple meeting.

Have you ever had to interview someone on short notice? Ever felt like you didn't know what to ask, or how to evaluate the answers? You're not alone. Unfortunately, what most managers do is "wing it". And that's more than just ineffective - we think it's wrong. The danger of winging it is not just that you feel uncomfortable, you look bad, and you don't get good information upon which to make a judgment of the candidate. The real danger is that the candidate can tell that you're winging it, and that reduces your firm's chance of hiring the best candidates.