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• Dec 2016

  Effectively Interviewing New College Graduates

  Hiring new college graduates requires some recalibrating of the interview process. Here are some questions to draw upon in your next interview.

• Mar 2009

  Talent Management Disaster at AIG

  What has infuriated most Americans is the $165 million in bonuses paid to the AIG executives who caused the company’s near-collapse. As I see it, AIG isn’t just a financial fiasco; it’s a talent management disaster.

• Sep 2005

  Resume Screening Would Have Avoided FEMA Fiasco

  We teach techniques to determine a candidate’s authenticity. Among these is carefully screening the resume before any face-to-face behavioral interview.

• Apr 2000

  Coca-Cola's Hiring Mistake

  Hiring flawed candidates with the expectation that they will improve once they are on the job can be a big mistake.

• Apr 2000

  Candidates Prepare for Behavioral Interviews

  There is another new trend among young job candidates, according to our high-tech clients. It seems that students called back for in-firm interviews now ask recruiters, "Will I be having any behavioral interviews?"

• Oct 1999

  How Traditional Consulting Firms Attract Talent

  In an effort to halt the "brain drain" from prestigious consulting firms to obscure startups, traditional consulting firms are resorting to radical new tactics.

• Oct 1999

  Trends Revolutionizing the Job Search

  This is our last newsletter of the millennium so we thought it was fitting to take an in-depth look at three trends that are revolutionizing the job search.

• Oct 1999

  Make Hiring a Priority

  In the eighteen years since Interview EDGE® was founded, recruitment and hiring practices have changed enormously. Unfortunately, one thing that hasn't changed is senior management's lack of commitment to hiring people the right way.

• Jan 1999

  The Ethics Problem

  USA Today reported that a significantly greater number of teens admit to cheating and lying now than in the past. This make the problem of dishonest candidates much worse.

• Jan 1999

  Be Prepared for Prepared Candidates

  Traditionally, students have been able to find information about prospective employers through their school's Career Placement Office.

• Jan 1999

  Job Candidate Deception

  Deception among job candidates, which can range from misleading statements on resumes to outright lying in interviews, is shockingly widespread.

• Jul 1998

  MBA Graduates - Rules of Interviewing are Changing

  It seems that MBA graduates are getting smarter every year - if not about mergers and derivatives, then at least about the ins and outs of interviewing.

• Apr 1998

  The Net Generation Grows Up

  These days, almost everybody in business has their eye on the "Net Generation," the aptly named, computer-savvy young people born after 1978.

• Jan 1998

  Desperately Seeking Skilled Workers

  More than ever, employers are finding that it pays to focus on skills, not ethnicity or gender. As one CEO puts it, "You simply want the best people you can get."

• Oct 1997

  Automated Phone Screens: Press the Star Key

  It was probably inevitable that someone would come up with the idea of automated interviewing. But automated interviewing has a few major drawbacks.

• Oct 1997

  Now You've Got Them, How to Keep Them

  You've worked hard, spent a lot of money, and beat out some pretty impressive competition to hire that young genius from Stanford. But now that you've got her, is there any guarantee she'll stay for even a year or two? Unfortunately, the answer is a resounding "No."

• Apr 1994

  Hiring by Computer Models

  Leading business schools are now using computer models to analyze certain management issues, such as hiring decisions. By combining mathematical equations with game theory, they can model the behavior of corporate leaders whose decisions affect others in the company.

• Jan 1994

  Software Changes Corporate Culture

  A new form of software called "groupware" may be changing corporate culture by freeing employees from the limitations of traditional hierarchies and creating new ways for people to work together.

• Jan 1994

  Hiring Managers Make Every Decision Count

  In previous years, hiring managers reduced and expanded staff in response to the ebb and flow of business. But that cyclic pattern of layoffs and rehiring has changed.

• Oct 1993

  Hiring for Negative Competencies?

  Brooks Mitchell, founder of Aspen Tree Software, has come to the conclusion that positive qualities don't always make for good employees.

• Jul 1993

  The Challenges of Internal Hiring

  Interview EDGE® has observed that in an effort to make the best use of their most valuable resources, current employees, ­ companies are shifting their hiring focus from external to internal candidates.

• Jul 1993

  Wanted: Transferable Skills

  As companies attempt to reengineer the way work gets done, HR professionals and managers find they must be able to evaluate transferable skills when interviewing candidates.

• Jul 1993

  Worker Burnout:Tick, tick, tick . . Kaboom!

  The drive for better margins in a low inflation economy has forced many companies to cut staff. But as people leave, the work remains. Employees who get to keep their jobs find they have more work and fewer resources.

• Apr 1993

  Gambling on Gerstner

  Louis Gerstner, former chairman and CEO of RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp., was chosen to take over "Big Blue." Hoping to dig out sagging stock values and failing profits, IBM board members chose Gerstner to start shoveling.

• Jan 1993

  The Hiring Thaw

  Previously stagnant employers may be surprised by the surge of job openings, and by the nature of today's diverse workforce.

• Oct 1992

  Interviewing Internal Candidates

  The internal interview is a very different type of interview. Consider training your managers to handle this unique and potentially beneficial opportunity.

• Jul 1992

  The BMW Message

  As product life cycles continue to shorten, the need for frequent and continual retraining of workers will increase. Moral: hire retrainable workers.

• Apr 1992

  "My Time to Relax"

  The selection interview is one of the most demanding tasks you will face any day. If you think it's a time to relax, we suggest you look for better ways to build a break into your day.

• Jan 1992

  HR Ratios

  T.J. Rodgers at Cypress Semiconductor stresses the importance of knowing the company's revenue per employee and using this to measure yourself against the competition.

• Oct 1991

  Impact of the Peace Dividend

  The end of the cold war and easing of tensions between East and West means about 500,000 men and women currently in the U.S. Armed forces will be released into civilian jobs. This represents some 25% of current armed services personnel.

• Jul 1991

  U.S. Motivation Waning

  With motivation and work commitment waning, assessment of candidates is even more critical.

• Apr 1991

  More Ammunition for Candidates

  Knock 'em Dead by Martin Yate joins the endless list of books for candidates on how to control, win and dominate the job interview.

• Apr 1991

  Hiring Amidst Layoffs

  It should be easier to hire when so many layoffs are occurring, right? Wrong. While whole layers of management are going out the window, a confusing trend is developing. Despite layoffs, firms are finding some jobs hard to fill.

• Apr 1991

  Responding to Declining Productivity

  To improve quality hiring, always compare candidates to the behavorial-based job description you develop ahead of the interview.