conduct job interview - MediaJobsDaily http://www.mediabistro.com/mediajobsdaily Hire Minds Delivering News & Insight About Jobs in the Media Copyright 2013 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:30:16 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 7 Tips for Hiring the Best Candidate One benefit of today’s down economy is that those with the resources for new hires have even more talent to choose from.  Yet, as a manager, you have to know how to dig a little deeper to find the person who’s really the best fit for the position.

For starters, use the interview to glean info that isn’t on the resume. And an easy way to do this to ask about what happened between jobs. ”Find out why the person changed roles or employers. If a transition doesn’t make sense, then probe more deeply,” said Caroline McClure, principal at recruiting consultant ScoutRock. That information is sure to be more useful than a canned response about previous job duties.

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]]> Mona Zhang http://www.mediabistro.com/mediajobsdaily/conduct-job-interview_b12233#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/mediajobsdaily/conduct-job-interview_b12233 http://www.mediabistro.com/mediajobsdaily/?p=12233 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:05:28 +0000