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Podcasts

Short: Hiring Leaders – Are You Asking Too Much?

Are you asking too much of your candidates? Many companies are asking marketing and communications candidates to show a little proof of what they can do. They ask them to create original content, write a comms or marketing plan, or…

Sharon TousleyOctober 28, 2020

Podcasts

Short: Why 30-minute Interviews Are a Bad Idea

Part of daring to be deliberate in your career means being good at hiring the best talent for your team. Setting up a quality interview process is an important part of evaluating candidates. Because of busy schedules, many managers are…

Sharon TousleyJanuary 16, 2020

Podcasts

Short: What Success Looks Like

When you are being intentional in your career, it also means being intentional when hiring new members on your team. In this episode, Angee shares a process that every hiring leader should go through before sending their recruiter off to…

Angee LinseyAugust 14, 2019

Blog

The “Essentialism” of Hiring

As a hiring leader, it’s a good problem when you can’t decide between two or three fantastic candidates for an essential role on your team. Unfortunately, that “problem” doesn’t happen often enough. What is more likely to occur is to…

Angee LinseyDecember 17, 2014

Blog

Admit it: Hiring is easy, Hiring well can be tough

When I ask a group of communications leaders if they’ve ever had a tough time hiring the right person, they typically launch into a diatribe of what went wrong. Whether it’s frustration with the process, the crazy things candidates say…

Angee LinseySeptember 18, 2014