We’ve just learned the Topgrading definition of an A-Player -someone who’s in the top 10% of all performers at any given salary range. How, then, do we know the right salary range to choose for the position?
That’s where your knowledge of your marketplace (or lack therof) plays a critical role. What do your competitors pay for [...]
You’ve probably heard the term ‘A-Player’ thrown around ad nauseum, but has anyone ever told you what it actually means?
Uber-CEO Jack Welsh took the concept of the A-Player into the mainstream business vernacular with his book, From the Gut. In this bestselling memoir, Welsh describes his system of evaluating talent:
“The A’s are the people who [...]
The final step in the selection process has finally arrived. After conducting your final round of in-person interview and scoring the results, you either have a clear front-runner candidate for the position, or have ruled out all candidates for the role and are beginning your search again from scratch. When you have a clear front-runner, [...]
My friends in the HR profession are always telling me that recruiting is the toughest part of their job. HR executives catch heat from their executive team for a good many things, but recruiting is typically the lightning rod issue that generates the most visible pain. Why?
I like to think about it this way - what [...]
Now that we’ve talked about preparing for the in-person round of candidate interviews, let’s take a look at the actual interview script, and a a subset of the questions contained within. In this post, I’ll walk you through the high-level topical questions that you’ll want to ask a candidate on an in-person interview. These questions should be [...]
The first interview is all about the candidate’s job history. The second interview is where we attempt to poke around inside the candidate’s head and find out what makes them tick.
After completing the first round by interviewing a minimum of 3-5 candidates, you’re in a position to carry forward the best 2-3 candidates for the 2nd and final round. [...]
Most entrepreneurs and business managers don’t conduct interviews. They have conversations.
They talk to their candidate about their business, and how great it is, and how many great people work there. They talk about the growth prospects, and they talk about their client list, and they talk about how they made the Inc. 500 last year. [...]
In a previous post, I’ve discussed that the goal of the phone interview is to make a go/no-go decision on your candidate. It’s not to decide whether or not to hire them, no matter how tempting that approach may be. Here we’ll discuss the next step in the process - the face-to-face interview.
The goal of a face-to-face [...]