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3 Ways to Attract the Talent You Actually Want Recruiting top-quality talent isn’t as easy as many people like to think. Yes, it involves a lot more than simply posting a job description, kicking up your feet, and just waiting for the applications to roll in. Sure, maybe your inbox will immediately be flooded with submissions. But, weeding through all of those entries in order to find a candidate who has the right skills and expertise and also seems like a great cultural fit for your company? Well, it’s the equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack—except that haystack is the size of a regulation football field. Luckily, there are a few tips and strategies you can put into play in order to cut through all of that noise and attract more candidates who are a true fit for both the position and your organization. 1. Be Proactive Another point to remember when it comes to being proactive? Everybody wants to attract high-quality employees. So, the people you want...

What are the most frequently asked Behavioral Interview Questions? Behavioral interview questions are a big part of most job interviews. Employers and hiring managers use these types of questions in order to get an idea if you have the skills and competencies needed for the job. The rationale is that if they know how you performed in the past it will help give a sense of how you might do in the future. For you as the candidate, you’ll need to prepare answers (basically “interview stories”) that highlight the different competencies and skill sets the employer is looking for. The problem is most candidates might have a general idea of how to answer these questions, but the answers usually come out way too long and unfocused, and won’t put the candidate in the best light. That’s why you’ll need to make a concerted effort to create these stories and adapt them to the relevant competencies. Below is a list of some common behavioral...

How To Race Ahead In Your Career As much as we would like it to be, careers are not built on sand dunes. The key to career management is to decipher how successful careers are built, figuring out how far you want to go, analyzing what’s getting in your way, exposing yourself to new tasks that build your skills and finally getting noticed favorably by the top echelons of management. Here are some quick tips to get your career zooming. What’s your degree of goodness? How good you could be? Are you underselling yourself? You may be too critical of yourself. In order to get clarity on these building blocks, get yourself a validated and confidential 360-degree review and thereafter sit down with an experienced facilitator to get debriefed on your behavior. This would help you in building a high degree of confidence and you will be prepared to accept negative feedback whenever it comes. Get a career board of directors Since most of us are not the best career advis...

7 Problems Startups Face with Campus Recruitment Campus Placements and Working at Startups are two equally promising trends in recruitment that are shaking things up for the corporate world. Question is, why don’t they go together? What’s stopping startups from tapping into this wide pool of talent that’s so much like them- new to nuances, eager to excel, and intelligently innovative? Here are 7 problems startups face with campus recruitment: 1. Lack of Brand Value By far the biggest reason startups avoid/fail at campus recruitment is the lack of brand value attached to them. Especially at particularly prestigious colleges, a number of students are looking to work in big companies with a multinational reach, hundreds of clients, and a million dollars worth of turnover. Given peer pressure, parental pressure, and a worldwide fear of the “big, bad world”, how can cash strapped startup with an idea; 5-15 people and no 10 clients compete? In a...