Author: dylan
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HIRING HIGH GROUND SEVEN ERRORS FOR COMPANIES...
Hiring great candidates in today’s market is tough. If you’ve tried hiring in our industry over the past five to eight years, you have experienced this. I recently spoke at the...
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HIRING WITH A HIGHER PURPOSE
In more than one LD+A column we’ve touched on the “passive candidate”—the one not actively looking for a job or necessarily possessing a burning desire to make a change. Mary Lindenmuth,...
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INTERVIEWING OUTSIDE THE BOX
USUALLY, AT THE VERY beginning of a search—whether it’s a sales, marketing, engineering, design or manufacturing position—we will ask a company what product or service familiarity they prefer for candidates to...
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IS THE RÉSUMÉ OVERRATED?
My last column (LD+A, April) talked about how a candidate can put together an effective résumé. In this column, I’ll discuss the résumé from the hiring manager’s perspective. The issues raised...
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NINE STEPS TO ACE YOUR SKYPE INTERVIEW
In the early and mid 1990s, there was much talk about video interviewing and video conferencing replacing the phone meeting—and possibly some in-person meetings—but it never happened. Even as the technology...
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NON-COMPETES ARE NON-EFFECTIVE
Here’s what we can do about it In one of the most transformative periods in the history of our industry—when the most creative and innovative minds in lighting are needed more...
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OMG!!! THINK BEFORE SENDING THAT TEXT
“Oh, boy,” said Chris, one of our Recruiter Associates, while reading something on his computer screen one morning recently. I asked him what it was, and he said it was an e-mail...
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PLUGGING INTO THE GIG ECONOMY
Over the past few years, a phenomenon known as the “gig economy” has spread across the nation. The word “gig” originated in the music industry as slang for a job or...
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PRONOUN PRONOUNCEMENTS . . . AS PAST...
The hidden meaning of ‘you’ and ‘they’ and the importance of tense during an interview I’m starting this column with an old joke that, for some reason, I still find amusing: The...
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THE COUNTER OFFER IS COUNTER PRODUCTIVE
At the beginning of my LIGHTFAIR presentation last June entitled, “Finding, Recruiting and Keeping The Best Candidates,” I asked attendees to imagine their best employee walking into their office and giving...
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