Four Things you can learn from a Thorough Reference Check

• February 27, 2015
• Posted in Human Resources

When engaged with your company's hiring process, one step that sometimes gets overlooked involves checking a candidate's references. Sure, interviews arguably remain the most important part of determining whether or not the person is worthy of a job offer, but references offer their own useful insights. Checking references remain a great choice for finding out [...] Read More

Rethink Your Hiring: Candidate Try-outs

• July 25, 2014
• Posted in Human Resources

When evaluating their hiring strategy, Automattic, the company behind WordPress, realized that a person’s effectiveness is best assessed through practical, on-the-job evaluation. Therefore, the company hosted “try-outs” for candidates where the person would be paid to work on a real project for a period of time – several weeks in many cases. This strategy proved [...] Read More