Like resumes for candidates, job descriptions are an employer’s chance to make a positive first impression on job candidates. Your tone, company details, and method of approach will determine how your candidates feel about your job posting, and by extension, your company.
You’re recruiting for an important position at your company. After all those applications, resumes, and interviews, you’ve finally whittled your shortlist down — to one person.
So naturally, you begin doubting your decision.
If you’re around my age, you may have seen Monty Hall’s game show, “Let’s Make a Deal.”
If you’ve not experienced the show, the format of Let’s Make a Deal involves selected members of the studio audience, referred to as “traders,” making deals with Monty.
As employees have begun returning to office environments, numerous surveys and observations have been made concerning the “new normal” or post-COVID work environment.
These surveys tend to consider resource availability, productivity, and quality of life situations at a macro level.
Almost as rare as a Yeti sighting, the term “purple squirrel” is used by those in the executive search industry to describe a job candidate with the precise range of qualifications—the right education, experience, and set of skills—to perfectly match an in-demand job’s requirements.
Have you considered how trust relates to recruiting, interviewing and hiring?
I’ve recently finished The Trusted Advisor by David Maister, Charles Green, and Robert Galford and found one of its concepts to be particularly intriguing as its applications transcend client/service partner situations into other areas of life – including hiring and recruiting.
My wife works part-time at a bakery. Although they’ve had some turnover, they’ve recently experienced challenges with hiring staff.
We brainstormed a few ideas to help them get back on track, but the one that struck me the most was that they need to be recruiting all the time – whether they have a job opening or not.
Star Wars is one of my favorite movies of all time, and Yoda is one of my favorite characters.
“Do or do not. There is no try”, his legendary statement to Luke Skywalker when Luke attempts to lift his X Wing fighter out of the swamp using “the force”, has resonated with me for years.
Recently, one of my sons interviewed for an internship as a sales development representative with a top IT security company. Unsurprisingly, his initial interviewers asked him to prepare a cold call script to understand how he’d go about it.
When moving to a new state or city, one important consideration to make is the availability of work opportunities in your field. Reaching out to search firms like ours can help you get insight into and guidance concerning your job search, but here are other strategies you can deploy to make your move and work transition successful.
