recruitment

I keep a keen eye out for the latest interview trends. Recruiting salespeople is possibly the most hazardous part of any manager’s job. Sadly sales managers get even less direction and preparation in how to do it well than they receive even on new and polishing selling skill. I’

aka, Do You Give A First-Date Or Joe Friday Interview? One of them is good, the other, terrible… Want to know which one gives results a whopping six times better than the other? Well, according to a couple of pages I read in the pop-psych Sway [http://salespodder.com/sway-the-irresistible-pull-of-irrational-behaviour/

A finding so noteworthy CNN’s Richard Quest deemed it part of his 2016 year’s highlights wrap-up. Job site Glassdoor [https://www.glassdoor.com/press/glassdoor-releases-top-10-oddball-interview-questions-2016/] raked through their forums and gathered the current most eyebrow-raising, so-called oddball interview questions. These are proven catnip for anyone ever having been

I sat next to a table in a café recently where a Sales interview was underway. It was a chastening experience. Carbon emissions seemed central to their product. Whether that be in corporate credit trading or consumer greenery was beyond my earshot. What I did hear though was an example

From the juggernaut that is mailonline, a tip or ten this week on what to say to your interviewer to ensure the “money and respect you deserve” [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3654359/The-ten-questions-ask-accepting-new-job-ensure-money-respect-deserve.html] in your new job. I wasn’t especially enamoured with their list: > 1.

Is there any one-time jobseeker who hasn’t been the victim of pyschometric testing? No. Whatever the practitioners insist, are they really more effective than the Carry On dating agency from 1970 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_On_Loving], Wedded Bliss, with their “computer matching” (which featured Sid Bliss

> What do you think of [… insert person’s name]? It really is as simple as that. According to the social media frenzy friendly findings of a Dr Dustin Wood [https://www.studyinternational.com/news/university-study-finds-one-question-can-reveal-a-lot-about-personality] . He built on the knowledge that; > “A huge suite of negative personality traits