Human Resources (HR)
How to Respond When Human Resources asks a Job Interview Candidate “Tell Me About Yourself”
When an interviewer for a prospective job asks “Tell me about yourself,” it’s not an open invitation to ramble about your life’s history or talk about every job you’ve ever had.
The open-ended question is an opportunity for the candidate to shape strengths and anchor positive traits about themselves, wrote career coach and author Lee Miller [...]
What Human Resources Managers Will Learn from NBC’s Conan-Leno Fiasco
NBC executives handling the Conan O’Brien/Jay Leno ordeal are learning a lesson Human Resources (HR) managers know well: never guarantee promotions by contract, said Jessica Lee, a senior employment manager for APCO Worldwide, in a blog on Fistful of Talent.
Folks have argued whether you should tell your A-players, as a part of succession planning, about [...]
Bite Your Tongue In an Exit Interview
When it comes to the exit interview, bite your tongue, suppress your ego and stay focused on how you will be remembered, said Lee Miller, a career coach and the former head of human resources at TV Guidein the article, “Resign with Class,” on TheLadders.
Despite your inclination to talk about everything that might be wrong [...]
The Downside of Functional Resumes
Functional resumes can be a means to avoid drawing attention to a gap in your career, your age or a lack of experience. It can be a great way to highlight your skills over your work experience.
But they have a downside too, wrote Dawn Hrdlica, the Human Resources Manager at MailSouth in a blog on [...]
Top Job Interview Questions You Should Expect to Hear
Imagine you’re a nickel in a blender. Now figure a way to escape while the blades are moving.
Be prepared for tough questions like that on a job interview, said Kris Dunn, a blogger at HR Capitalist. Google hiring managers are actually trained to use the nickel in a blender question among others during job interviews, [...]
Defending the Company (Even Anonymously) Can Get You Sacked
An American Airlines Web developer who defended and explained his company’s culture — anonymously — to a critical Web designer over e-mail in May was fired by the company, said Kris Dunn on the HR Capitalist blog. It’s a cautionary tale on what can happen when an innocently written, carefully crafted employee perspective gets into [...]
When to ask Questions in a Job Interview
How do you make the interviewer feel you’re an expert in the field and already close to the position you’ve applied for? Turn the tables and interview the interviewer, said Liz Ryan, a Human Resources (HR) expert and author.
Look for openings in the conversation where you can direct questions back to the interviewer and draw [...]
Layoffs Lead to Job Openings
Don’t discount the companies making headlines for layoffs. Those pink-slip-passers can be a good source of jobs, said several human-resources experts who spoke to the Wall Street Journal.
[I]f you’re unemployed you shouldn’t automatically write off opportunities at companies that are in the news for letting people go. Chances are, there will be job opportunities elsewhere [...]
One in Five HR Managers Plans Q4 Hires
Twenty percent of human-resource managers said they still plan to add staff positions in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to the most recent “Labor Market Outlook” from the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM). Fifty-nine percent said they plan to hold maintain current staffing levels in Q4, and 14 percent said they will continue [...]
What Hiring Managers Should Ask in Job Interviews
Ever have a lousy job interview? It may not be you.
It very well could be the interviewer’s ignorance about how best to conduct a productive meeting, suggests human resources and staffing blogger Randy Levinson.
Levinson goes to great lengths in his post “I’m sorry; you’re just interviewing me wrong” to explain that the many theories and [...]
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