Human Resources 101

Be familiar with Human Rights guidelines.
Conduct the interview in a comfortable setting.
Provide an overview of the job responsibilities.
Schedule adequate, uninterrupted time for the interview and appropriate space to assure confidentiality. Keep to the allotted time.
Put the candidate at ease.
Remember to sell the organization.
Prepare job-related questions for interview and review applicant materials before the interview.
Get specific [...]

Not happy with the quality of candidate your job ad is attracting? Try being brutally honest.
“If you … can come to work on time, not steal from us, not show up drunk, then come in and see us today,” reads the ad written by Charmaine Rose, owner of high-end lingerie stores La Belle Femme [...]

In September 2006, I post a link to Lynda Ford’s article, 50 Behaviour Based Interview Questions. I tried using the link today and it doesn’t seem to be working. Just in case the original post is gone forever, I found a cached version of the article via Google and have posted it, along with the [...]

Behavioural Descriptive Interviewing (BDI) has been around for 10 years of so. It is an efficient way of structuring interviews to learn about the skills and competencies a candidate has exhibited in previous roles. It is looking at past behaviour to predict future performance.
BDI takes longer than traditional interviewing. However, the quality of information your receive [...]

Brian Libby has posted a short piece at BNET on The 7 Interview Questions You Must Ask. Most of the questions should be common sense, but aren’t: how to develop rapport; how to find out how the candidate feels about the job and the company; how to measure the fit between the candidate’s values and [...]

I haven’t paid much attention to vertical job-search engines. My interest is on the other side of the job-search market; getting job postings out to widest possible group of job seekers.
Toady, I did a little digging around Careerjet.ca.
Careerjet is a job search engine designed to make the process of finding a job on the Internet [...]

Canada’s economy churned out a much-better-than-expected 51,100 new jobs in September — enough to lower the country’s unemployment rate to 5.9 per cent.
That’s the lowest jobless rate since November 1974, Statistics Canada said Friday.

Click to read story at CBC news.

Just Measure These Three Core Traits.
Over the past few years, I’ve come to appreciate the importance team and community skills play when hiring a candidate. As a rookie recruiter, I focused on competency almost exclusively. If the candidate seemed particularly motivated, that would bump them in the ratings. Team skill seemed to be something that could [...]

Calgary… Alberta’s energy associations and employers are taking action to address labour shortages with the release of A Workforce Strategy for Alberta’s Energy Sector which contains 46 new actions for recruiting, retaining, and developing the workforce.
The Strategy’s industry-led actions address the unique labour force issues and challenges within this sector. The Alberta government facilitated the [...]

In this video edition of The Recruiters Lounge, Jim Stroud meets with Earl Mann to discuss the mysteries behind SourceCon.

The Recruiters Lounge – Who is behind SourceCon? from Jim Stroud on Vimeo