Hiring Solutions & Resources
Evaluating candidates
Revamp your candidate journey with a contemporary, candidate friendly application and interview process. From rejuvenating your careers page to implementing structured interviews and anonymized screening techniques, we provide comprehensive tools and strategies to ensure a delightful candidate experience. This ensures you consistently select the best fit for your organization, each time.
The world’s most enduring personality test is a meaningless parlor game
If you work for a large organization you’re probably already aware that yours is one of 16 distinct personality types. You may b...
How to build a blind hiring program
Blind hiring removes all personal and demographic information from the hiring process so hiring managers can assess candidates b...
The problem with hiring for ‘culture fit’
Culture fit is trending again—but not in a good way. In the 70s, organizational psychologist John Morse conducted an experiment ...
Giving interview feedback: the dos and don’ts
Do you find it easy giving interview feedback to rejected candidates? If so, you’re one of the lucky few. Most interviewers are ...
Addressing interview red flags
Malcolm Gladwell famously wrote in his bestselling book, ‘Blink,’ that “the key to good decision making is not knowl...
How to assess soft skills in an interview
How can you tell whether a candidate who looks good ‘on paper’ will be good ‘in person’? Soft skills make all the difference. So...
Structured interview questions: Tips and examples for hiring
Have you decided to shift towards structured interview questions? Good call. Structured interviews are twice as effective as uns...
How to read candidate body language in an interview
Often, interviewers think candidates who slouch are bored or arrogant and decide to turn them down. But, how much should we trus...
Addressing resume red flags
Resume red flags aren’t necessarily grounds for instantly disqualifying candidates. However, they may give you more insight into...
9 common interviewer mistakes that put off candidates
Interviewers can get away with mistakes more easily than interviewees. Candidates are supposed to stress about how to create a p...
Background check red flags
Performing a background check is a good way to avoid making a problematic hire. But background checks are not a pass/fail system...
The new look job editor
A new way to navigate When you create a job in Workable, we walk you through the process step by step. From writing the job desc...