438 GID How Due Diligence Can Improve Your Company's Hiring Process

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Some prospective employees are a bad fit. Some don’t even exist at all. Make sure your job prospects are worth interviewing using the Internet. Read the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/2jVMCPF

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0:00.0	This is Stevea Robbins.
0:04.4	Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.
0:08.7	Intern M.G. is back from his foreign semester abroad.
0:11.9	Did I mention that he was living in a castle?
0:14.0	Well, he was. A castle. With turrets. No, I'm not jealous.
0:18.4	But now that he's back, he's acquired yet another job. This time at
0:22.6	International Ad Giants Incorporated, they have recognized his explosive potential and promoted him
0:27.9	to hiring manager at 22. Yes, hiring manager. Goody for him. Yeah, great. His days are now
0:35.2	packed with seeking out and vettingting oh so highly qualified applicants for positions
0:39.6	at the big firm.
0:40.7	They want copyrighters.
0:42.2	His initial thought was to post a job offer on Craigslist.
0:45.5	3,917 job applicants later, it hasn't worked out so well.
0:49.3	Ha ha!
0:49.9	Too bad for him.
0:50.7	He asked them all to come in for an interview.
0:53.4	And they all did. All of them.
0:55.9	Pig mistake. I found him lying comatose under two and a half feet of resumes. 19 cups of coffee
1:01.1	later, we discussed the need to pre-screen candidates before spending too much time with them.
1:06.7	Instead of jumping right in with every job candidate, there are some simple steps to take
1:10.5	which will help eliminate unsuitable candidates quickly.
1:13.3	The Internet makes it easy.
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