The Great Blog Off – Summary Part 2

Here is the balance of the first 12 hours of the Great Blog Off Gina and I did on Friday June 20th. I apologize for the delay.

Here’s the list:

Hour 7: Video Instruction: Don’t Underestimate the Power of Your Smile – Check out this one minute video from collegegrad.com. People do prefer to meet pleasant people during the interview process. Your smile might be the one thing that separates you from the other strong candidates. But, watch the video.

Hour 8: Behavioral Interviewing: Assessing Customer Focus Skills – can’t think of a single organization or business that isn’t concerned with customer service. Customer service is not just important in retail where there are obvious customers. Where I work, our customers are patients and even doctors and nurses. Read more>>>

Hour 9: Enhance Your LinkedIn Profile for Job Seeking – In light of the fact that linkedin has become and looks to be a continued source of choice for people who love to hire passive job seekers (those who may not actually be seeking a new job), I thought it would be a good idea to remind readers to pay attention to your Linkedin profile! Read more>>>

Hour 10: How One Environmental Services Startup Uses Social Networking To Recruit – We don’t use traditional recruiting methods. Why would we when we are a non-traditional company? We find people to join our team via personal word of mouth. We network and market through social media, like blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn, and our own www.brighterplanet.com. We have yet to use a search firm and don’t anticipate doing so any time soon. Read more>>>

Hour 11: Baby Boomers Face Hiring Hurdles – When Baby Boomers claim “experience” and “reliability” in interviews, they are reinforcing the hiring hurdles faced by older workers. There, instead, needs to be a new focus to interviews. Read more>>>

Hour 12: Behavioral Interviewing: Assessing Problem Solving and Analysis Skills – From my experience, the behavior interview questions around problem solving are the hardest for candidates to answer. Problem solving is tricky but even though candidates struggle with these questions, they can be the most important ones to ask, especially if you are interviewing candidates for leadership positions. Read more>>>

To see the remaining 12 hours. Click the this link! Thank you to all who participated and visited Interview Chatter!