Tips and Tools So You Can Hire the Right Employees

Hiring the right employee is a challenging process. Hiring the wrong employee is expensive, costly to your work environment, and time consuming. Hiring the right employee, on the other hand, pays you back in employee productivity, a successful employment relationship, and a positive impact on your total work environment. Hiring the right...

Are you interested in speeding up the time it takes you to hire a new employee? These six tips will help you remove time from your hiring process.

Are you ready for the changes that will affect your hiring process in 2012 and beyond? These are six top hiring process trends for which employers need to be ready.

When you consider making a job offer, it’s tempting to offer the job to the candidate who is most like you. The candidate feels as comfortable as a well-worn shoe. You won’t get many surprises once you make the job offer, and your gut is comfortable that your favorite candidate can do the job. But, is this really your best candidate? These are...

Looking for a sample candidate rejection letter? Your candidates appreciate receiving official notification from organizations in which they invested the time to apply and interview. Use this sample candidate rejection letter as a base for developing your own candidate rejection letters.

People forget that the purpose of a job interview is not just to get the job. Sound strange to you? It’s not. You go to a job interview to discover whether your talents, abilities, interests and direction are a good fit for the job, the company, and the company’s mission. Learn more about the match that needs to occur during a job interview for a subsequently successful employment relationship.

Hiring decisions that result in "bad" hires sap your organization's time, training resources, and psychic energy. These are the top hiring mistakes to avoid during your recruiting and hiring process. Do these eight activities with care; your recruiting, interviewing and hiring practices will result in better hires.

Need to reject job candidates, welcome new employees, make job offers, introduce new employees, and more? These sample employment letters will help you.

Need sample Human Resources letters to use to communicate with current and prospective employees? Use these sample letters to guide you in the writing of your own HR letters.

Want fundamental information about how to do common Human Resources activities and functions for hiring an employee? These HR fundamentals for hiring employees provide basic information needed when you decide to hire an employee. Check here for fundamentals about hiring employees.

Do you need a sample job rejection letter? This sample job rejection letter is for candidates who interviewed with your organization twice. It is painful to send a job rejection letter to a candidate who you found qualified enough to tap for a second interview. But, it happens. Use this sample job rejection letter to professionally and politely,...

A salary negotiation window exists from the time you offer a job to a candidate until your candidate accepts the job. The results of this negotiation leave a candidate feeling wanted or devalued. The results of this negotiation leave the employer excited to welcome the candidate or feeling as if he lost. A positive employer and a positive employee are the result of a successful salary negotiation.

Need to professionally, thoughtfully, and kindly reject your job applicants? You can use these sample rejection letters to assist you to reject job applicants: when they apply, after the interview, and when not selected for the job. Find sample rejection letters.

Interested in the humorous - or not - side of making a job offer? Making a job offer is the final step in a long, staff intensive recruitment process. Readers share job offer stories that were fun, funny, heartbreaking, sad, maddening, and poignant. No matter your side of the negotiation table, you have a job offer story to share.

Small business has an advantage in hiring talent. Wonder when it's time to hire? Darrell Zahorsky, About's Small Business Information Guide, provides the indicators you need to check to answer that question.

Hiring superior employees ensures that your organization has the talent onboard that it needs to succeed in accomplishing your mission and vision, and attaining long term profitability. Dan Erling, author of the book, MATCH: A Systematic, Sane Process for Hiring the Right Person Every Time, asks, "Why is it that so many companies accept mediocre...

Reference checking is often relegated to Human Resources in organizations. In my mind, that's not who should own reference checking. The manager of the position should check the employment references. He or she has the most to lose if the needed skills and cultural fit don't work out. The manager's "feel" for the viability of the candidate is also key for the person's eventual success as an employee. Managers own reference checking.