Easy Onboarding for New Employees — Six Tips and Tricks
Onboarding: A Shared Challenge Onboarding is the first stage of assimilating and integrating a new employee into an organization, and it’s a challenge for both the new employee and the employer. For the employee, settling into a new job is difficult — just like that first day at school, there is much to learn and potential anxiety […]
Hire Chefs: Job Description for a Chef — Dishing Up the Right Job Description
In French, chef means “chief.” They are the chiefs of the kitchens and of cuisine, responsible for all parts of the food service process — sourcing ingredients, menu planning, preparation, and staffing. Chefs who are creative, passionate, and organized — and great team players — are an asset to all businesses. Attracting these talented chefs […]
Anatomy of a Great Job Description
This post is the first in a series designed to show you how to write effective job descriptions, which is essential to hiring that star candidate your company needs. We’ll be going through and picking apart actual job postings found on job boards today to show you what works and what doesn’t, and give you […]
Employee Search: Social Media Is Not the Recruiting Miracle Your Company Is Looking for
The Internet’s ever-growing popularity and ever-advancing technology have changed the way we do just about everything, including an employee search, searching for jobs, applying for positions, and hiring new employees. The early days of online recruitment saw the introduction of vocational sites and job boards devoted exclusively to connecting those looking for employment with those […]
What poker can teach you about interviewing job candidates
Three famous poker tricks, and how they can help us “read” our potential employees If you have ever played poker with any likeness of professionalism, you have probably heard of Mike Caro, the legendary “Mad Genius of Poker”. Caro is a professional poker player, casino consultant, and highly influential poker theorist. Although making a dent […]
Job Description for a Retail Store Manager: The Devil’s in the Retail Details — Attracting the Best Retail Store Manager Candidates
Welcome to the second installment of our job post analysis series, where we pick 100 percent real job posts apart to show you the best way to attract the five star candidates you deserve. Today we’ll be focusing on the wonderful and widespread world of retail. More specifically, we’ll be looking at job postings for […]
Hire Salespeople — Job Description for a Salesperson: If you Can’t Sell the Position, You’ll Never Hire a Stellar Sales Rep
Looking to hire salespeople? Well, we’ve already discussed the three crucial parts an effective job description should include: an excellent “About You” that sells yourself as an employer, a fitting “About the Job” that makes sure to sell the position to the RIGHT candidates, and an attractive “Rewards” section that sells the benefits of working […]
Job Description for a Restaurant Manager Position: You’ll need to cook up a quality advertisement to serve these savvy professionals!
Successful Restaurant Managers are talented individuals; they possess a passion for quality service and a keen ability to self-regulate, all while working under stressful, and high pressure environments. People in the restaurant manager position must balance the tricky role being the public face of, and driving force behind, a restaurant — an indispensable role that […]
