Should You Hire That Very Candidate? The 5 Seconds Final Hiring Test
Hiring: I have done it 350 times for my clients and 50 times for myself since 2001! Phone qualification, personal interviews, reference taking - I have seen 'em all. Add personality and motivation tests, role plays or assessments centers for a more scientific touch [...]
How To Do A Reference Check
In my career as a headhunter, I have found new jobs for approximately 350 knowledge workers and interviewed thousands of candidates. And all of them saw themselves as above average candidates and often felt they understood both strategy and leadership better than their superiors. [...]
Three Reasons To Accept A Counter Offer
Counter offer! A candidate who has accepted a new job is "sold back" by his employer. The nightmare of the recruiter! What has happened until we got here? We have done a full search and talked to 150 candidates, sometimes more to identify those [...]
How To Quit Your Job With Style
You have taken the decision to quit, to leave your current employer. This means that you have lost the faith to change your job for the better. Here are 5 tips on how to quit your job with style, ensure a clean departure that does [...]
10 Bullet Proof Tips On Career Management From James Bond 007
Most techniques you need to survive in intelligence and counter espionnage will not help you to get a promotion or a pay rise when you have a white collar job. But when we look closer at it, it turns out some of James Bond’s [...]
Going International. The Same, Just Different
Do you have a successful product or service and want to go abroad? Or do you already have country operations yet they do not work as you wish? Insecure on how to manage intercultural differences - and similarities? We understand each other as international, [...]