Performance-based Hiring BLOG

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Hiring for Performance Not Skills

Hiring for Performance Not Skills Frequently hiring managers make the excuse that they don’t have enough time to spend with the recruiter to discuss a ...
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Hiring High Performance Sales Reps

Subscribe: Android Hiring great sales people can be tricky. In this podcast Lou Adler and Bryan Johanson discuss the basis for hiring great sales ...
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The Power of the Exploratory Phone Screen

Subscribe: Android In this podcast Lou Adler goes step-by-step through what he contends is a barometer for a company’s entire hiring process. Using ...
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Handling Compensation

How to Determine a Candidate's Internal Driver of Success In this podcast Lou Adler answers the common candidate question, "What's the compensation." Adler suggests a ...
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Using Metrics to Achieve Win-Win Hiring Outcomes

Long, long ago in a career now nearly forgotten, I had the opportunity to work in a number of different types of high-volume manufacturing organizations ...
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The Complete 2-Question Interview

Before I got into the training of recruiters and hiring managers and writing books about the trials and tribulations of all this, I was a ...
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Use the 30% Solution to Turn Jobs into Careers

In a recent blog post, I suggested that sourcing and recruiting can be described using the metaphor of a bus. In some ways this is ...
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Change How Your Hiring Manager Uses Job Descriptions (and Get a Few Hugs)

In a recent LinkedIn Influencer post I suggested that hiring managers should give their recruiters a few hugs for helping them find and hire stronger ...
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This 2-Step Process Virtually Eliminates Interviewer Bias

There was an article last week in the WSJ describing how seasonal workers are being hired sight unseen. Well that’s not totally true since they are being ...
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A 7-Step Plan for Measuring and Improving Quality of Hire

Rather than assess the quality of person, assess the quality of person’s accomplishments. I recently wrote a post on how to calculate the ROI of ...
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Diversity Hiring Doesn't Require Any Compromise

At SmartRecruiters’ Hiring Success 2019 recruiting conference in San Francisco last month someone suggested that too many people think diversity hiring requires the lowering of standards. At ...
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Hiring Without These Critical “Soft Skills” is a Recipe for Disaster

Having personally been involved in more than 2,000 different hiring situations over the past forty years and tracking the subsequent performance of many of those ...
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Assessing Motivation Can Make or Break Your Next Hire — Here's How to Do It

In my 40+ years of recruiting, I’ve learned that recruiters often make a critical mistake in assessing a candidate for a position. Simply put, they ...
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