How to screen candidates

These warning signs can help you identify whether your potential hire may be trouble further down the line, despite checking all your boxes at the interview.

You are not alone in having been taken in by an inaccurate or dishonest CV. Take these simple steps to check each hire and your company should be able to identify which CVs are worthy of your time.

It’s easy to find out about a candidate’s history of sales success or their advanced technical ability, but intangible skills may be harder to spot.

There are pros and cons for each method which need to be considered before deciding which is right for your recruitment campaign.

Trusting a CV completely will always be greeted with cynicism, however a few handy tips can help demystify the CV checking process

When looking for an ideal candidate, a person specification can take preference over a standard job description.

Understanding the reasoning why an overqualified candidate would apply for a job can lead to making a valuable hiring choice

Whether you get a response of 20 or 20,000 CVs, you need to know how to effectively evaluate every application.

Negligent hiring occurs when you take on an employee who proceeds to cause a problem to the company, another employee or customers.

Hiring decisions often focus largely on candidates’ technical skills. This can result in hiring employees who have the cognitive firepower to succeed but lack the social skills required to effectively use what they know.

Nothing a company does contributes more to its long-term success than recruiting the right talent. Here’s our ten point plan for getting it spot on.

If you’re discarding candidates just because they have switched jobs too many times, you could be missing great talent.