How to Decline a Job Applicant

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7 Tips for Telling a Candidate They Didn’t Get the Job Hiring new employees is always an enjoyable experience.  For starters, you get the chance to increase your staff while bringing in new skills.  Filling a vacancy also lets you increase your team’s capacity, enhancing your flexibility in terms of maneuvering work assignments around your department.  But along with the good comes the

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Are Exit Interviews Really Necessary?

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A friend of mine recently changed jobs.  He was a 19-year veteran of the company he left, during which time he worked on a number of successful projects and had worked in several departments.  And yet, after nearly two decades with the firm, he was informed that no exit interview would be held as the company saw no value for the

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Deciding Who To Layoff: Ask Yourself These 10 Questions

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What to Consider When Downsizing Your Team It might be the most delicate and sensitive topic that you as a manager will face in your career: selecting the names of those people to let go or make redundant.  The context here is reducing the size of the organization to maintain profitability, or improve efficiency, not firing someone due to misconduct.  From

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7 Things I Look For When Interviewing Job Applicants

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Evaluating A Job Candidate’s Interview Performance   Whether you’re on a hiring spree for your startup or trying to fill a key role in your organization, interviewing job applicants reveals a lot about your candidates.  We recently filled a critical role within our company, and while all three final candidates were internal to our business and knew the organization well,

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