Hiring Executives: How to Move Beyond First Impressions

What are they really like? Little things can be revealing in an interview and a skilled interviewer can look beneath the surface to discover the real candidate. Selecting the right people to lead and build effective executive teams is critical to developing successful...

The Rise of the New Groupthink

SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools, and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from the oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for...

Role reversal: Employers say they can’t find workers

With 13 million unemployed people seeking work in this country, it would seem like anyone who wants to hire someone would have little difficulty doing so. But that’s not what many employers are saying. More than half of U.S. employers surveyed by the staffing firm...

Your Résumé vs. Oblivion

Recruiters and hiring managers are overwhelmed by the volume of resumes pouring in, thanks to the weak job market and new tools that let applicants apply for a job with as little as one mouse click. The professional networking website LinkedIn recently introduced an...