The Secret of Successful Hiring

Bestselling author, Seth Godin offers some sage advice on how to hire (or not to hire)…

Two ways to hire (and a wrong way)

“The wrong way first: interview someone for an hour. If you like them, have them interview three or four other people in your organization for an hour each.

You’ve invested five hours of your team’s time, but really you only were looking for approval, because you’d already decided you liked the person enough to work with them for years.

All the evidence we’ve seen shows that this is a lousy predictor of future performance. And, let’s tell the truth… if the first three people love the guy, are you really going to let the fourth, junior person veto him? Or is it just an annoying courtesy?”

That is the wrong way to hire.

Read Seth’s advice on the right ways to hire here.

Top 10 Articles On Employee Screening

Since we’ve had an increase in readers to our employee screening blog, I thought it would be a good idea to make the new folks aware of our most viewed articles.

Here they are:

• Form I-9 and E-Verify News

• Job Applicants - What To Do About Identity Theft

• 4 Ways Employees Can Steal From You

• The Reality of Reference Checking

• How Not To Get Fired

• Employee Screening Through Social Networks

• The Dangers of Using Social Networks for Employee Screening

• The Other Background Check: What Does Google Have To Say About You?

• The Pitfalls Of Using Social Networking To Screen Potential Employees

• Diploma Mills: Degrees of Deception

Want to learn more about employee background screening?

• 5 Reasons To Do Employee Background Checks

• 4 Tips on How to Avoid Negligent Hiring Lawsuits
  

• 4 Tips For Preventing Workplace Violence

Recruiters Are Checking You Out On Facebook

Employers increasingly turning to Facebook to check up on you

by Christopher Null: The Working Guy. Yahoo Tech

If you’re lucky enough to have landed a job interview in this economy, you’d better have your ducks in a row. And more and more these days that means getting your social networks in order before your would-be bosses come sniffing around.

According to a survey conducted by CareerBuilder, Facebook has become the network of choice for recruiters to sniff out data about job applicants, with 30 percent of hiring managers saying they use Facebook searches to research information about new and potential hires.

Read the rest of the article here.

Related Posts From FYI Screening:

• 4 Tips On How To Use Social Networks For Employee Screening
  

• Employee Screening Through Social Networks

• 5 Legal Reasons Why Your Company Should Have a Social Networking Policy

• Twitter and Employment Law Issues

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Employee Screening Articles For June & July 2009

In case you missed any of our employee screening articles for June and July, here’s a quick recap of our most popular:

• 6 Tips On I-9 Compliance In The Hospitality Industry
• 5 Legal Reasons Why Your Company Should Have a Social Networking Policy
• Are Colleges Spying On High School Students?
• Hiring Managers Are Checking You Out
• New Employee Screening Trend -Second Chance For Ex-Offenders
• E-Verify for Employers in South Carolina and Mississippi
• Small Business Guide To Pre-Employment Background Checks
• The Hottest, Newest HR Technology for Background Screening
• The Importance Of Post-Hire Background Checks
• 4 Tips On How To Use Social Networks For Employee Screening

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