Veterans Day Can Last All Year
it’s important to have a day to say “thank you” to all the men and women who have served our country. But even better than saying “thank you” one day a year is helping veterans find jobs, especially in this economy.
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Job Interview Questions To Try, Part 2
You can use queries to get to know your candidates better as people and workers, to get an idea of what they value, how they perceive themselves and others and how they view their careers, and your position’s potential role in it.
Job Interview Questions to Try, Part 1
You can help your interviews become a better tool for finding the right fit between your client and potential candidates by asking better questions. Today, we look at the stories you can ask candidates to tell.
Reducing Risk: Investigate Internally to Avoid Lawsuits
If an unfortunate event happens during the course of business, you could be at risk for a lawsuit, especially if you don’t investigate claims yourself.
Finding Strong Candidates: Red Flags
Over this series, we’ve covered a lot of the ways that candidates can tell you, “I’m not that great a candidate, really.” But there are also two more subtle ways a candidate can remove themselves from the “Strong” category.
Finding Strong Candidates: The Interview
While skills testing and background checks can give you empirical data about a candidate, the information you glean from their interview is a lot fuzzier.
Finding Strong Candidates: Reference & Background Checks
Reference checks and background checks are two separate things, but with one common goal: to find out if this person really is who they say they are.
Finding Strong Candidates: Skills
While employment history is often the focus of candidate reviews, skills are just as important—if not more so. A good resume will help a candidate get a job, but only skills will help them do the job.
Finding Strong Candidates: Unemployment
You’re bound to interview lots of candidates who have been unemployed for some time, so learning how candidates handle unemployment will tell you a lot about them.
Finding Strong Candidates: Employment History
Whether presented on a resume or an application, where a candidate has been is often used to gain the most knowledge about where they could possibly go.
Finding Strong Candidates: Referrals
We’ll be doing a seven-part series over the next few weeks, sharing tips for finding the diamonds in the rough of your waiting rooms. And we’re leading off with one of the most obvious sources of great candidates: referrals.
Employees
COATS Employee tracking and processing allows you to control all employee related functions. Applicants are easily entered via Online Applicant Entry and/or Resume Parsing and are processed and tracked from the Employee Records screen.