How to Interview


Personality Testing for Sales Recruits

He can close, but how's his interpersonal sensitivity? A guide to screening sales candidates.

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Recruiting: Tapping the Talent Pool

How to use skill tests, applicant tracking software, video interviews, and industry-specific job sites to find the best candidates in a large stack of resumes.

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When Job Interviews Go Sour

What are the biggest blunders a job applicant can make? CEOs weigh in about what impresses them -- and what draws their ire.

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Recent How to Interview Articles

The Office: Too Smart for Comfort

CEOs are often too quick to feel threatened when a new hire pulls out the smart card.  Read story

How to Find and Hire Good People

A guide for entrepreneurs and small business owners on screening, writing job descriptions, background and credit checks, and more.  Read story

"Help Wanted" Meets "Buy it Now"

Why more companies are integrating marketing and recruiting.  Read story

The New Science of Hiring

Care to dramatically enhance your chance of finding great employees? Trade in your gut instincts for a systematic approach to interviewing, testing, and eval...  Read story

Interview Insights

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The Hiring Manager's IQ (Interviewing Quotient) Test

Here is your opportunity to "test" your personal knowledge about the interviewing process.  Read story

How I Did It: Luring the Hip to Arkansas

Enticing urban ad types to Arkansas has much to do with Wal-Mart and something to do with cool.  Read story

The 4 Hiring Practices of Highly Successful Organizations

Finding the right person for the right job fuels success.  Read story

Seven Steps to Better Phone Screening of Job Candidates

An effective telephone screening process can reduce the time you spend selecting top candidates for a position.  Read story

Tag Teams

How one company hires successfully by putting all job candidates through grueling officewide scrutiny.  Read story

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