Category: LD+A Articles
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11 STEPS TO A MORE POWERFUL RESUME
Make sure your first impression isn't your last Part of the job description of each member of Pompeo Group is to review résumés. I probably look at three or four résumés a...
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EIGHT STEPS TO A SUCCESSFUL ONBOARDING PROCESS
Many companies work hard to recruit and ‘sell’ candidates on their company, only to think that the job is complete once their candidates say ‘yes’ to their offer. Change can be...
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FINDING THE RIGHT CANDIDATE
WHETHER YOU’RE THE employer conducting the interview, or the potential employee vying for the job, there are probably a lot of things you would rather be doing. In a recent column, we...
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GUESS WHO’S ON PROBATION?
In the first few months, it’s often the company that’s being evaluated, not the new hire We recently placed a candidate as a director of engineering—a very impressive, very bright candidate...
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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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