Interviews can be pretty predictable after some time. And that causes a lot of applicants to just memorize or reuse answers they might have already given before. So how do we extract personality-driven answers and avoid textbook ones? Easy. Shake things up […]
It’s another day. You have your coffee on your left, and a number of resumes on the right. You go through the resumes to orient yourself better with the candidates’ basic information. Right outside the room is the first one […]
Interviews are crucial to the hiring process. It’s where a hiring manager asks things that aren’t in your resume, and tries to know and assess you better. It’s where they figure out if you’re THE best candidate for the team. […]
Nerves can be a hassle, especially during an interview. And hey, that’s normal. I guess that’s because a lot of people see interviewers as some kind of monsters. They’re not. They’re human beings like you who have their own personalities […]
People often ask me “Where would be a good place to learn interview technique? I want to be confident when I hire someone based on their interview.” Well – the answer is obvious… If you want a good place to […]
Of all the questions I get asked as a headhunter (other than… what does a headhunter do?), the most common one is “what is the best interview question I should ask?” Well, it really depends on what you want the […]
Fifteen years before Leonardo DiCaprio’s “sell me this pen” speech in Wolf of Wall St, I had a client come into our offices for two straight days of interviewing. This was early 2000’s and he was a 1980s throwback; high […]
A hiring lesson for each achievement! 1. Emma Stone beat Meryl Streep to Best Actress On the surface, this was never going to be a fair fight. Prior to the 2017 nominations, Meryl Streep had nineteen Oscar nominations – fifteen for […]
If you are an IT professional, or if you run sales or presales teams, or are simply responsible for HR or recruitment within the IT sector, this is the blog for you! I’m Simon Lader. I have helped software vendors […]
Simon Lader helped emerging, high-growth and established software vendors grow their sales and presales teams since I became a recruiter in 1997.
