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Interviewing

 Choosing the Right Candidate
You and the other interviewers have screened resumes, interviewed candidates, and checked references.
Now that the time has come to make a hiring decision, you might feel unsure if you'll make the right choice.
By evaluating your data systematically and then discussing all the available candidate data with other
interviewers to reach consensus, you'll be better able to select the right person.

 Legal Considerations in Hiring
Fair and equal employment opportunities for all. It's not just a catch phrase; it's the law. Employment laws
require consistent selection processes that are related to the job. As good as your hunches about a particular
job candidate might seem, they're very risky if other capable, qualified candidates are excluded from the
selection process.

 Screening Resumes and Checking References
No matter how you posted a job opening—internally or through a prominent post on a job board—you
probably have too many applicants and too little time to interview them all. A stack of resumes can be
daunting, but by screening them you can avoid wasting valuable time interviewing unqualified candidates.
And by checking references, you can fill in the blanks and verify facts to find the best person for the job.

 Seeking a New Job Position
Are you ready for a job change? Maybe your company is reorganizing, and you're eyeing a newly created
position. Or, you just found out your job is being eliminated. Perhaps you've simply decided that you can't
keep doing the same job much longer. Whatever your situation is, you're probably feeling confused and
anxious. A change is inevitable, but you're unsure how to know if a particular position will be right for you.
Then, again, maybe you know exactly what you want to do but just aren't sure what to do to land the job.

 Tips for Interviews
Hiring a job candidate shouldn't be a guessing game. How well you conduct an interview can mean the
difference between hiring the right person from the start and having to dive repeatedly into the candidate
pool. Yours is an important responsibility, because choosing the right candidate helps to ensure
organizational success and employee satisfaction.

Meetings

 Contributing to Meeting Success
Meetings are a way of life in most organizations. In fact, you're probably spending more time than ever in
meetings. A well-run meeting allows people to share progress, discuss and solve problems, and make
decisions. Unfortunately, we're often stuck in meetings that start or run late, waste time, or accomplish little.
Why sit in a useless meeting while your "real" work goes undone?

 Facilitating a Virtual Meeting
As a meeting leader, you face the challenges of controlling a meeting, keeping people on track, and making
sure the meeting achieves its purpose. Along with those practical responsibilities go the duties of building
relationships, instilling trust and confidence as the meeting leader, and keeping the group working as a team.
Those can be daunting challenges for the leader of any meeting—and especially so for a virtual meeting.

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