As the leader of a high-growth company, you should be spending at least 50 percent of your time on people-related functions like recruiting and hiring; more importantly, it should be spent wisely. That means not rushing into an interview winging it – as a matter of fact, research shows that hiring managers make worse hiring decisions after an interview than… Read More
Take Your Company’s Career Page to the Next Level
Your company’s “careers” page is among the most valuable digital real estate that you own, but most companies treat this vital recruitment asset as an afterthought. Your career page is so much more than a listing of your current job openings. It’s your secret weapon in the war for talent, and it should be built with a singular… Read More
Why You Should Hire “B” Students
LISNR, a CNBC Top 50 Tech Disruptor two years in a row, doesn’t recruit straight-A students but looks for the folks that got B’s in school. Rodney Williams, LISNR CEO and Co-Founder, is a big believer in this human capital strategy at startups and after maintaining massive growth at the ground-breaking tech company for the… Read More
Creating an Environment Safe for Dissent
For the last fifteen years, Paul J Daly has been building two businesses in Syracuse, NY: Image Auto LLC, a reconditioning services company, and Congruent Story, a media firm. Paul describes himself as a people person and is all-in on the human side of business, stating “I believe that if you put the people first… Read More
Oddball Interview Questions: What NOT to do
Since 2013, Glassdoor has put out their list of Top Oddball Interview Questions, sourced straight from their users. In this episode, The Best Team Wins Podcast producer, Christen Calloway, and host, Adam Robinson, discuss this list’s merits (or lack thereof) in a fun deep-dive into interview questions and styles of interviewing. Listen to this episode on:… Read More