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Bias
Daniel Jakaitis / about 2 months
Cognitive Biases in Hiring: Part 2
Cognitive Biases in Hiring: Part 2
No matter how much you try to be impartial, your mind can get the best of you.
Cognitive biases are often subconscious
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, making it hard to recognize when they affect your decisions.
But understanding what cognitive biases are and accepting that we have them
enables us to design and implement structures to limit them as much as possible.
In part one of o
Bias
Daniel Jakaitis / about 2 months
Cognitive Biases in Hiring: Part 1
Have you ever judged a book by its cover?
If you’re honest with yourself, you probably have. That’s because we all have
biases一whether we acknowledge them or not.
While basing book purchasing decisions on a biased point of view may not be that
harmful, our inherent biases can have detrimental effects on other decisions,
particularly in the hiring process.
In the competitive hiring climate we’re in, hiring teams are trying to move as
fast as possible to get and keep a good hire. While that
Interviewing
Daniel Jakaitis / 2 months
How Competency Frameworks Can Improve Your Hiring
When you’re in hyper-growth mode at a startup, you probably don’t think twice
when you see an interview pop up on your calendar.
You take it in stride, knowing that you’ve done interviews before and have
spidey senses about people. It’s no biggie, you’ll pick the right person when
the time comes.
But interviewing shouldn’t be a spur-of-the-moment decision. It’s high stakes.
The average cost of a bad hiring decision is at least 30% of the individual’s
first-year expected earnings
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Interviewing
Daniel Jakaitis / 2 months
Getting Started With Structured Interviews
Most startups throw interviews together at the last minute. HR or a hiring
manager gives interviewers a brief heads-up and a candidate’s resume, expecting
the interviewer to come up with a coherent set of questions. Once that scramble
is over, there’s a long, ceremony-like meeting where interviewers debate and
pick who gets hired, often leaning into their gut feeling about a candidate.
There are so many problems with this approach: From seeming wholly unpolished as
an organization, falling pre
Cold Outreach
Daniel Jakaitis / 3 months
5 Cold Recruitment Email Templates To Win Over Engineers
Software engineers are in high demand, and attracting top talent is much harder
today than a few years ago.
So how can you make your company stand out in this competitive environment? How
do you ensure that software engineers know about your business and want to work
for you?
Cold emailing is how!
Why Is Cold Emailing Still the King of Outreach?
Hyper-personalized emailing is still one of the best approaches to candidate
outreach.
That’s because no other form of outbound recruitment has the
Chatkick
Daniel Jakaitis / 3 months
Say Hello to Chatkick: The Hiring Intelligence Platform Designed to Make Every Interview Matter
What is Chatkick?
We’re thrilled to announce that Chatkick hiring intelligence platform is now
available for all teams.
The Chatkick platform provides hiring managers and talent acquisition teams with
the kind of data-driven visibility that’s long been missing from their hiring
processes.
We believe that building and scaling great companies does not happen without
finding and hiring the right talent. Doing this requires both a strong talent
pipeline and a high-quality candidate interview
Interview Questions
Daniel Jakaitis / 3 months
The 9 Best Questions to Ask in an Executive Interview
The interview process for an executive is elaborative, intense, and longer than
for entry-level jobs or mid-level managerial roles. Your job here is to assess
the candidates’ leadership skills, management style, alignment with your values
and mission, and fitness for where the company is headed.
This article will cover nine executive interview questions that you should ask
your candidates in face-to-face interviews. And share explanations of what type
of insights these questions can offer.
Lat
Feedback
Daniel Jakaitis / 4 months
Developing Interview Feedback Templates That Actually Work
The interview doesn’t end once you’ve ended the conversation with your
candidate. Giving feedback to internal teams and documenting remarks is just as
important as creating job descriptions, advertising the opening, and
shortlisting candidates.
But this feedback process might be one of the longest phases, second only to the
actual interviewing stage. Creating custom templates for this can make your
process efficient and save you a lot of time and frustration.
And developing interview feedback
Interview Questions
Daniel Jakaitis / 4 months
16 Interview Questions to Hire High Impact Marketing Managers
Excellent marketing requires an all-star team. And to assemble your team, you need to ask the right questions.
Interviewing
Daniel Jakaitis / 4 months
How to Give Constructive Feedback to Unsuccessful Candidates
Learn how to give constructive feedback to unsuccessful candidates with examples, templates, and actionable tips.
Interviewing
Daniel Jakaitis / 4 months
A Guide to Interview Training for Hiring Managers and Employees
Interview training for hiring managers and employees improves candidate experience and quality of hiring decisions. Here is our guide to setup an interview training program
Job Description
Daniel Jakaitis / 4 months
How to Write the Ultimate Job Description
A job description has to be strategic; it serves as an engaging, inclusive, descriptive acquisition tool.
Recruiting
Daniel Jakaitis / 5 months
A Brief Guide to Effective Recruitment Marketing
From the copy on your website, to copy in your job descriptions, to your interview process, your recruitment marketing effort must never stop.
Recruiting
Daniel Jakaitis / 5 months
Recruiting is Sales
To get the best results in recruiting, you need to emulate the team with the leanest, meanest, most tested process: sales.
Sourcing
Daniel Jakaitis / 5 months
6 Sourcing Don'ts
There’s no way you become a unicorn without fantastic talent, and sourcing a robust candidate pipeline is the first step to getting hiring right.