ELIZABETH (LYNNE) LADNER, ICMA-CMPolitics and Government Magazines
When hiring, ask them organizational behavioral questions to understand their mindset and intent to stay in the organization. Recognize achievements Your employees need to be recognized and encouraged. Show them you notice their hard work and reward them when they go above and beyond. With this, ...
Every step in the employee life cycle potentially impacts company culture andperformance management. To ensure there is no gap in the said process, you must ask for employee feedback regularly. This will help organizations in realizing how well they are supporting their employees. Your staff is ...
“But it’s becoming increasingly clear when you talk to someone, you ask them for examples, how comfortable is this person really? And I think what we’re finding is employers are looking for people that show comfort with AI because they know that they’re going to have to bring AI in...
To ensure that it is hiring the best and brightest, Amazon even appoints a group of its current employees as "bar raisers." On top of their day jobs in various sectors of the company, these employees are tasked with providing additional perspective on new hires around culture fit and tal...
Interview questions for hiring salespeople The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate’s hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills. Explore the top questions to ask and tips for analyzing the answers. Hard skills ↓ Use these questions to identify a candidate’s...
When hiring new people, employers may wonder if prospective workers will fit in and earn the current staff’s respect. To address this concern, an interviewer might ask, “How will you earn the trust of your coworkers?” Employers also use this question to see how well you can make ...
In this article, we discuss why employers ask the interview question 'What do you know about our company?', explain how to answer it and share some example answers. Related jobs on Indeed Part-time jobs Full-time jobs Remote jobs Urgently hiring jobs View more jobs on Indeed Why employers...
Don’t depend on a shiny resume if you want to land a job at Amazon. Even in its early years, when the online retailer had just 2,100 employees, founder and CEO Jeff Bezos was fastidious about hiring the strongest employees possible. Here's what he asked
Get to the root: Begin by thanking hiring managers for sharing their concerns, then consider asking about the source of their unease. Some employers expect overqualified hires to quit when a better job turns up. Others think a more mature candidate will struggle to follow a less experienced su...