The fate of the galaxy, or perhaps the fate of your business, can rest on making the right decision when it comes to hiring your Jedi Knights. However, get this element of your business strategy wrong and you could find great disturbance in your force.
By Adam Butler
The biggest mistake many businesses make when they recruit is only to start looking when there’s a vacancy.
Last month, a story about one RAC manager posing a rather offensive question at interview made its way into the press. The reaction to the question, and the subsequent apology from RAC too, might not surprise you in the slightest. But what might surprise you is that employers are making mistakes, which can cost them thousands of pounds.
Personal appearance and hygiene are important, but British graduates seem to believe that spending more time on grooming than company research is the way to “dazzle” in an interview.
By Aaron Evans
Part of the reason people get hired even though they don’t have the right skills to do the job is because many candidates exaggerate on their CVs and lie in interviews. A recent survey puts the number of UK job hunters who lie on their CV at 28.6 per cent.
Have you ever interviewed a potential candidate, finalised the job offer and induction process only to realise you’ve made a poor hiring decision If so you are not alone and you’ll know how frustrating, time consuming and costly it can be.
By David Craik
Green Party leader Natalie Bennett’s recent appearance on Nick Ferrari’s LBC Radio show was the ultimate toe-curling interview.
Stuart Rose is neither a finance director nor a private equity general partner, but he knows an awful lot about both, as Richard Young discovers.
He was a professional pianist, then the owner of a recording studio, soon the founder of one of the UK’s most impressive technology companies, and now he’s UKFast’s CEO. A conversation with one of the country’s top entrepreneurs.
