Helping managers make every hire count.
May 10th, 2013
This is the 5th post in a series of 5 on the top 10 things we’ve learned from hiring experts we’ve interviewed during the first 10 episodes of the Down2theHire Podcast. In yesterday’s post, Tips on How to Hire an Employee from our First 10 Podcast Episodes – Part 4 of 5, we focused on what to [...]
May 9th, 2013
This is the 4th post in a series of 5 on the top 10 things we’ve learned from hiring experts we’ve interviewed during the first 10 episodes of the Down2theHire Podcast. In yesterday’s post, Tips on How to Hire an Employee from our First 10 Podcast Episodes – Part 3 of 5, we highlighted the unique advantages [...]
May 8th, 2013
This is the 3rd post in a series of 5 on the top 10 things we’ve learned from hiring experts we’ve interviewed during the first 10 episodes of our Down2theHire Podcast. In yesterday’s post, Tips on How to Hire an Employee from Our First 10 Podcast Episodes – Part 2 of 5, we discussed the incredibly [...]
May 7th, 2013
Over the last ten weeks we’ve interviewed eight professionals with significant hiring experience in small businesses, and featured these interviews on the Down2theHire Podcast. This week, we’re doing a post a day to share with you two of the hiring tips we’ve learned from these interviews on how to hire an employee. In yesterday’s post, Tips [...]
May 6th, 2013
Last week, we released the tenth episode of the Down2theHire Podcast. While it really isn’t that big of an accomplishment, it does take a lot of work to put even one five minute episode together. So, we’re going to take a breather this week and reflect on our first ten episodes by sharing with you [...]
March 14th, 2013
On Monday’s podcast on Pre-Employment Testing for Small Business, we talked with Dr. Jesse Llobet, Industrial Psychologist and President of Psymetrics, who explained that small businesses should start using pre-employment testing for the following reasons: Research proves that pre-employment assessments tend to be three to four times more predictive (of how well a candidate will perform on [...]
February 22nd, 2013
In Episode 3 – The Cost of Hiring the Wrong Employees on the Down2thHire Podcast, Cathy Vaughn, General Manager of Sportsplex – the Hudson Valley, NY’s premier fitness, swimming and tennis center – joined the show to discuss the high cost of rushing through your hiring process and hiring a candidate that turns out to be a [...]
November 2nd, 2012
Went to Venturef0rth, a co-working space in Philadelphia, to hear Ray Bixler, President & CEO of SkillSurvey, speak on hiring and firing to build your dream team. Ray highlighted some tried and true hiring techniques and practices, while also bringing to light some newer tools and approaches: Leverage employee referrals: Your employees are well equipped judges of [...]
August 22nd, 2012
Walter Isaacson, in Steve Jobs, paints an amazingly honest portrait of the man who could be argued to have had the most significance on our 21st century lives. In Isaacson’s biography, we can draw plenty of entrepreneurial, managerial, and personal lessons from the life of Steve Jobs. In this post, here are some hiring-specific “to dos” [...]
August 2nd, 2012
Check out our list of August’s top five hiring articles from around the web. These articles cover every aspect of the hiring process: from deciding whether or not you need to hire… to asking the best interview questions… to cutting your losses when you’ve made a bad hire. 1. Hope? When hiring, it can be [...]
