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How Much is Your Bad Hire Costing You?

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / Interviewing / No Comments / December 2, 2014

Do you know the true cost of a bad hire? Sadly, most of us don’t. If you did a search on Google, you will find all kinds of estimates and suggestions regarding the negative financial impact of

The 3 Biggest Mistakes Most Interviewers Make

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / Interviewing / No Comments / November 25, 2014

(This article received over 6,709 views and 215 Likes on LinkedIn) Over the years, I’ve seen the good, the bad and the ugly sides of interviews — both as a job candidate when I was still

Why You Should Hire for Personality

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / Interviewing / Organisation Culture / Personality / No Comments / November 4, 2014

So far we have covered Culture, Attitude and Aptitude in our previous articles. The final piece of the CAAP® Foundation is PERSONALITY. If you missed the previous articles, read them here: Culture, Attitude, Aptitude So what is

Why You Should Hire for APTITUDE

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / Interviewing / Organisation Culture / Personality / No Comments / October 28, 2014

The Guy Who Could Not Learn Many years ago, I hired a guy who had more than 10 years of working experience and all the relevant technical qualifications and certifications. He did well in the interviews

What is ATTITUDE?

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / Interviewing / Organisation Culture / Personality / 2 Comments / October 21, 2014

In my previous article, I talked about Culture. If you missed it, you can read it here. Today we will examine the next attribute – Attitude. So what is Attitude? Attitude is something that is notoriously difficult to

Culture, Attitude, Aptitude, Personality. Do You Know the Difference?

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / Interviewing / Organisation Culture / Personality / 2 Comments / October 14, 2014

Lately, I’ve been seeing some articles calling recruiters and hiring managers to hire for attitude but not for aptitude. Honestly, I have been quite ruffled and disturbed by this strange trend of reasoning. One article had the

3 Simple Steps to Highly Focused, Effective & Relevant Interview Questions

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / Interviewing / Strategy / No Comments / October 7, 2014

How do you craft highly focused, effective and relevant interview questions? That’s a common question I get from my workshop participants and clients. Crafting interview questions is not rocket science. It is actually very simple once you

Are You Looking for your next Purple Cow?

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / No Comments / October 1, 2014

Yes, Purple Cow. This was a concept popularized by Seth Godin in his bestselling book Purple Cow. The basic concept of the Purple Cow is to stand out and be insanely different from your competitors. According

If You Were This Manager, What Would You Do to Avoid a Similar Hiring Disaster?

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / 4 Comments / September 25, 2014

Picture this scenario: You have just advertised for a position you are hiring for your team. Sitting on your desk in front of you is a stack of over a hundred Resumes you have received over

4 Things You Can Do Today to be a Better Manager

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / No Comments / September 17, 2014

It does not matter if you are a team manager leading a team of 5 or a Division Manager leading an organization of 500, the challenges with team and people management are fundamentally the same.

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