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Teach Your New People the Top 15

It happens all the time. A new hire arrives for the first day of work. The supervisor rattles off a […]

Bob Wendover / February 20, 2017

One of the more recent fads in HR circles has been the so-called stay interview. In other words, meeting with

Bob Wendover / November 14, 2016

“How do you interview for a skill set you don’t have yourself?” I was asked this question the other day

Bob Wendover / October 22, 2016

I don’t care what you know. I care about how you think. That’s been my guiding philosophy for hiring over

Bob Wendover / September 17, 2016

I shared this advice with the leaders of a Wall Street investment bank who complained that all their young analysts

Bob Wendover / August 20, 2016

Ever feel like you’re wasting time interviewing job applicants? They prepare answers for the questions they assume you’re going to

Don’t hire top performers! Sounds like the reverse of what you should be doing. But it’s not. Twenty years ago,

Bob Wendover / October 24, 2015

I had been standing in the pharmacy line for about ten minutes and was next to be served. Just as

Bob Wendover / August 31, 2015

I’ve been teaching employers how to recruit and hire the best people for more than 25 years. In all that

One of the most difficult attributes to assess in a job applicant is his or her approach to decision making.