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Recent How to Interview Articles

How to Hire an Executive Assistant

If scheduling and clerical work is slipping between the cracks, it might be time for an assistant. Here's your guide to a smooth hiring process.  Read more

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.  Read more

Personality Testing for Sales Recruits

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

Too Smart for Comfort

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

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 more

New Businesses Staying Afloat

Despite weak revenue most U.S. startups survive beyond their first year, a study finds.  Read more

"Help Wanted" Meets "Buy it Now"

Why more companies are integrating marketing and recruiting.  Read more

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.  Read more

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 more

Interview Insights

Interview Insights  Read more

The Hiring Manager's IQ (Interviewing Quotient) Test

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

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 more

The 4 Hiring Practices of Highly Successful Organizations

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

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 more

Tag Teams

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

Hiring the Best

Don't assume you can't afford top-notch executives for your small company. Given steady incomes and space to perform, they'll soon pay for themselves.  Read more

Job Interviews en Masse

A quick look at one company's unique appraoch to streamlining its interviewing process.  Read more

Recruiting: Targeting the Military

Several small company managers explain why they hire armed services veterans and how to hire vets yourself.  Read more

Hiring: Try Taping Those Interviews

Two personnel experts share tips on making audio recordings of interviews and what to watch out for when taping.  Read more

How to Read Between the Lines

Group of CEOs share their tactics for evaluating a resume.  Read more

How to Screen Job Applicants

What it takes to effectively screen and interview job applicants  Read more