Manager Tools - Hiring

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 wi...

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

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

Part 2 of our guidance on asking and evaluating the weakness question when interviewing candidates....

Part 1 of our guidance on asking and evaluating the weakness question when interviewing candidates....

The conclusion of our recommendations for how to set up the order of interviews you conduct for a day of in-person interviews of a candidate. ...

This guidance describes how to interview candidates by conducting multiple interviews. ...

Part 5 of our guidance on how to scan a resume to decide whether or not to phone screen a job candidate....

This cast gives our guidance on how to write a job advertisement....

Never make a counter-offer to an employee who has a competing offer....

You DON'T have to hire immediately when you have an opening. The strategic-thinking Effective Manager considers other options first. That's what your CEO wants you to do....