Beware When Hiring

A Word with Marty: "INTELLIGENCE"

On Dealing with a Tradesperson

A Realist: Career

My Fair Lady: Episode 3 of Odd Man Out, short-short stories

Hiring Reinvented

A Storyteller: A short-short story

Hiring Reinvented

Hiring Wisely in the Time of COVID

 Employers, follow the approach I outline in Psychology Today to hiring and you're far more likely to be satisfied.

Foiling Job Seeker Ploys

My previous article described unethical ploys employers use on job seekers. 

The focus of my PsychologyToday.com article today is the flipside: unethical ploys that job seekers use to fool employers.

Hiring the Best , Not Just Who Seems Best

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers a few tips on how employers can suss out the honest and high-quality job seeker.

The World's Shortest Course in Hiring, Training, and Managing People

As my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer the tactics my clients have found most helpful in hiring, training, and managing people.

Foiling Dishonest Job Seekers

Whether you’re an honest job seeker or an employer, you’re hurt by dishonest job seekers. The honest job seekers ends up losing jobs to inferior liars. And employers get worse employees, which hurts coworkers, customers, and themselves.

Alas, having been a career counselor to thousands of job seekers and consultants to dozens of employers, I can tell you first-hand that there are a lot of dishonest job seekers who manage to bamboozle employers.

I consider writing my PsychologyToday.com article today, Foiling Dishonest Job Seekers, a bit of penance for remaining silent, occasionally condoning, and even very occasionally, in moments of sympathy for that struggling job seeker sitting in front of me, abetting tactics I wouldn’t be proud to tell my daughter about.

Three Foolish Workplace Practices

A surprising number of businesses use silly practices. I describe them and offer alternatives in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Employer and Job-Seeker Ploys

Employment expert Claudio Fernandez-Araoz described a job interview as “a conversation between two liars.” No wonder that 1/3 of new hires are no longer there within six months. 

In a small effort to help ensure a better match between job seeker and employer, My PsychologyToday.com article today describes three employer and three job-seeker ploys and how to foil them.

Using Job Simulations: Key to hiring wisely

Despite a mountain of evidence that the job interview is a poor way to choose employees, we continue to use it.

Key to hiring wisely is using simulations of difficult tasks that the employee will often have to do. As with most things, the devil is in the details so in my PsychologyToday.com article today, I was quite granular.

Whom to Hire, Promote, and Terminate

A leader or manager must wisely hire, promote, and terminate. I offer guidelines on how to do that in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

A Guilty Pleasure: Being With People from Your Own Background

Yesterday, someone stopped me and asked if I would take a picture of him and his family. It turned out that, like me, he was a New York Jew living in an area with few of them. 

We hit it off immediately. I know we're supposed to celebrate diversity but that experience reminded me of why, still, so many people marry a spouse from a similar background and why it's tempting to hire someone from a similar background. I guess that's why we need the EEOC watchdog. Or do we? 

I describe the experience and my thoughts in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Hiring and Keeping A Players

Some organizations are wise to hire B and even C players: they're cheaper and less likely to leave. But other organizations, those that strive to be best-in-class, want A players. It's hard to get them but my article in PsychologyToday.com today may help.

Hiring the Best Employees: A better way to find and vet job candidates

Back in June, I wrote a PsychologyToday.com article on how to hire people. 

I recently wrote a complementary one on hiring wisely in TIME.  HERE is a version of that article with just a few small improvements.