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Monthly Archives: February 2007
Interviewing Your Manager
A reader emailed me and asked, “how do I interview a manager who will be my superior?”The short answer is the same way you interview peers. However, your feelings about your position or your potential boss’ position (or even someone … Continue reading
Making Jobs Attractive, Part 4: Market the Job During the Interview
I don’t normally market a job or “sell” a candidate during an interview. I have found that by asking great interview questions, and having everyone on the interviewing team ask great interview questions, I don’t need to sell. One of … Continue reading
Making Jobs Attractive, Part 3: Market the Job Before the Interview
So you’ve got a job description that offers an opportunity, not a job. You’ve come to terms with how you see the value of the job. Now it’s time to start looking for people–candidates–to help fill that job.One way to … Continue reading
Making Jobs Attractive, Part 2: Respect the Job to Market it Well
Part of making a job attractive is to market it well. But you can’t market it if you don’t respect it. So the first part in marketing is to come to terms with how you feel about the job.Are you … Continue reading
Making Jobs Attractive, Part 1: Offer an Opportunity
The first step in making a job attractive is to create a job that’s an opportunity for someone, not just a job (Adler). An opportunity allows people to grow in some dimension, not just do the same-old, same-old. That means … Continue reading
Making Jobs Attractive, Part 0
According to my colleagues inside organizations, we are officially in a buyerseller’s market for technical jobs. They are reporting it’s difficult to find people, and they want to know how to make the jobs attractive.I don’t claim to know a … Continue reading
Smart Hiring Decisions
Jason Yip’s Hire squirrels instead of turkeys has a link to a discussion of Harvard’s hiring of Faust as the new president. Looks like Harvard got smart and thought about cultural fit, and those critical influencing and negotiation skills. (See … Continue reading
Interviews Tell a Candidate About the Hiring Manager and the Culture
Interviews and how they are set up reflect on the hiring manager and the organization’s culture. If you want to read about some particularly bad interviews, take a look at Jerry Weinberg’s most recent article on the AYE site, Getting … Continue reading
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