Are You An Observer Or Action-Taker

To recruit qualified applicants, our HR department promotes available positions using advertisements on television, in newspapers and on the web. The objective is to attract the most skilled, qualified and appropriate people and motivate them to apply at our company at www.macysjobs.com. The application process is simple. Applicants are instructed to upload a resume or manually complete sections consisting of personal information, education, work experience, etc. Additionally, a questionnaire is provided to give us a better insight on an individual’s value and work ethic. Following recruiting is the selection process. The first step in the selection process is to review the resumes and applications that have been submitted in response to our postings. We will also look back on prior applications from previous postings and identify those that appear to have the basic requirements of the position (skills, experience, education, etc.) for further consideration and set aside those that do not. Next, telephone interviews are conducted as a pre-screening to determine whether the applicant is qualified to attend a face-to-face interview. Generally, telephone interviews last between 5 and 15 minutes and include

In order for our hiring team to narrow our applicant pool down to three, we had to assess each applicant using our application rating sheets. To hire for FOH Manager, there was only enough time on selection

applicants the hiring manager must go through. If you’re one of the lucky ones that get your application

Urschel, H. (n.d.). How employers review resumes: the secret for standing out. Retrieved from job-hunt: www.job-hunt.org/job-search-mindset/employer-resume-review-secrets.shtml

For many years, company recruiters and hiring managers had the same tools at their disposal to locate and evaluate job applicants. Finding the right person for a job often was and still is a lengthy and costly process. The payout for selecting the best candidate can be significant, and hiring the wrong person can be costly, yet often mistakes are hard to avoid. The wrong

I was still convinced that my good cover letters for resumes were impeccable so I proudly sent them to her. The advice she gave me was priceless, and helped me land an interview at last.

After reading “Susie the Screener,” I understood that we don’t need to rush when we write our resume because there are rules that we should follow and respect. What I kept in mind, just like Susie said in the article, is that a good resume has to be “clean, objective, orderly, and logical.”

You should not procrastinate not only because you will make it a bad habit, but you will be rushed to do things, and it will most likely end up being sloppy and not very good. Because I want to be a coach, I can not procrastinate to have tryouts because it will decrease the practice time we get to prepare for our upcoming games. If I procrastinate order my uniforms, they might not arrive in time for our

Many times, job seekers will spend a good deal of time resume writing and have great resume experience only potential employers never see it. How do employers miss this information? Quite simply, the information is buried amidst clutter on the job seeker's resume.

One would have you believe the success of women career both economically and self gratifying can only be accomplished if and only if there is a change in behavior. We want to believe the selection process is objective and carefully thought out. Yet, others expect the process to be about the individual’s performance and merits and together the choice is based on the right fit for the organization.

This resume was submitted in response to a posting that I was extremely dedicated to, as it was for a position reporting directly to me. While I received many resumes from extremely qualified candidates, two in particular stood out to me. I invited both in for a first interview and then again for a second. They both interviewed extremely well during round one, however I wanted to give them

Resume Competition – the resumes applicants send in search of work often face a lot of completion from other applicants. It is estimated that an average of 250 resumes are submitted to every corporate position advertised.

Purpose- Not only are you trying to determine the best applicant, but you also have to convince the applicant this is the best place for them to work.

From the Latin, procrastination means putting off from day to day. However, in the book The Procrastination Equation, Piers Steel, PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Professor at University of Calgary, and author of several books and articles, explains why we knowingly and willingly put off a course of action despite recognizing we will be worse off for it. He emphasizes that people often have a misconception about procrastination (5). Procrastination means not just simply delaying tasks. Steel defines procrastination as “irrational delay when people voluntarily put off tasks despite believing themselves to be worse off for doing so” (3). Therefore, delays that will negatively affect a person’s physiological and psychological well-being are considered procrastination. According to Steve Pavlina’s website article “Overcoming Procrastination,” procrastination is “the habit of putting tasks off to the last possible minute.” People who usually

Mark Greene was his name. A simple young man of 23 years of age. Nothing too suspicious came up from my interview for the job. He gave reasonable questions. Such as the simple ones,