5 Interviewing Mistakes Hiring Managers Should Avoid

5 Interviewing Mistakes Hiring Managers Should Avoid5 Interviewing Mistakes Hiring Managers Should Avoid5 Interviewing Mistakes Hiring Managers Should Avoid HerrenkohlWere all busy so finding the time to prepare to conduct a job bewerbungsgesprch can be tough. But if you spend a little bit of time with the steps below, youll add a lot more value to the hiring process and make better decisions.Here are 5 mistakes made every day by hiring managers with some simple steps you can take to avoid them.1. Fail to define a clear picture of the job requirementsIf you dont see a target clearly, chances are that you will miss it.Do you have a clear picture in your mind of the performance you want to see from the position you are filling?Are you and the other people interviewing candidates in agreement on what you are looking for in the part you hire?Get everyone involved in the hiring process together in a room.Agree on the priorities of the job and the kind of accomplishments that make a candi date a top contender.You would be surprised at how rarely this happens in some companies.2. Fail to create a scorecard for the interviewBefore the first interview takes place, create an interview scorecard that lists the key accomplishments and skills you want in the person you hire. You might have 7 criteria (sales skills, organizational skills, leadership abilities, etc.) for which each interviewer scores the candidate from 1-5. This helps you to grade every candidate objectively against criteria that are important for the job.Additionally, encourage every interviewer to write down what candidates actually say during the interview, rather than what they thought was said. When interviewers review these verbatim notesit will jog their memories and recall the candidates actual responses. In turn, this will enable everyone to more accurately discuss the candidates strengths and weaknesses and decide who makes the next round of interviews.3. Fail to ask open-ended, accomplishment orien ted questionsIf you had to walk into an interview right now, with zero preparation, could you ask good interview questions and learn everything necessary to make a judgment about the candidate?Ask the following one interview question and follow-up and you will conduct a good interview.What do you consider to be the biggest accomplishments of your life and your career?Why so?Of course, with more preparation you can ask more focused questions. But open-ended follow-up questions allow the candidate to describe what he or she has accomplished in life and the opportunity to provide details that prove their expertise. Try these questions in your next interview you will be surprised at how much you learn.4. Fail to listenWhen you conduct an interview, what percentage of time do you spend talking? In most interviews, if the percentage exceeds 25%, youre talking too much. Heres how to fix that problemIn most interview situations, you should be asking open-ended questions, listening, asking a follow up question, listening, and then repeating the process. Stop telling, and start asking and listening during the interview process. Your hiring decisions will improve.5. Fail to do a post-game debriefOptimally, you should have multiple people interview a candidate. If you dont, you should. You get the most value from having multiple people interview a candidate.Immediately after everyone has interviewed the candidate, or as quickly as possible thereafter (within 24 hours at the most) meet with the other interviewers to do a post-game debriefingto discuss your impressions.Youll be amazed at what other people catch that you miss and vice versa.Author BioEric Herrenkohl is the founder and president of Herrenkohl Consulting, a firm that helps clients build great sales teams. He is the author of the book, How to Hire A-Players (John Wiley Sons, April 2010.) To receive his free e-letter, subscribe at herrenkohlconsulting.

A Restaurant in the Sky

A Restaurant in the Sky A Restaurant in the Sky A Restaurant in the SkyDoes the braised lamb in balsamic reduction and the side of Gruyere with pear confit taste better when eaten at BASE-jumping heights? If youre willing to fork over $500 to Dinner in the Sky, you can find out. The company has dangled gourmandson dining platforms hung from cranes180 feet in the air in 40 different countries.How did the company reach such heights? The concept and the actualization come from Belgian Stefan Kerkhofs. Kerkhofs had the good luck to grow up surrounded by cranes. His family owned a construction company. As a child I was always fascinated, he says. You can do more with a crane than only things in the construction world. At that time bungee jumping came out. We had the crane, and we could do with it whatever we wanteda dream for a child.Guests are suspended at a height of 50 meters by a team of professionals. ansehen Dinner in the SkyCrane ExperienceA more fully-grown Kerkhofs worked for the family company for five years. But when, in 1991, they sold it, he decided to turn what had been the off-hour hobby with cranes into the business itself. He started the Fun Group, where he used cranes to let paying bungee jumpers hurl themselves to the earth, catapulted other projectile-oriented thrill seekers, and also dropped a few cars.For those more interested in going up than down, or across, Kerkhofs created a kind of viewing platform. It could hold 24 people, giving them a perspektive to look around, sort of a viewing box. It wasat a party of such view seekers that the seed for food at great heights was first planted. I was going up with a friend, and he proposed to me it that it would be a wonderful idea, when sitting at this level, to have the possibility of eating and drinking. Ok, we eat, we drink. Then who makes dinner? Ok, lets make dinner in the sky-platform. So Dinner in the Sky was born.Kerkhofs had the crane experience to make it happen. He teamed up with publicist guru David Ghysels to make it happen in a big way. Run by the duo, the company has a unique production process. Its simple how it works. Mostly Im the dreamer, the guy with fruchtwein crazy ideas. We dream out loud and then explain our dreams to the team, and its up to them to make the dreams come true. Its strange to tell it that way, but its really how it goes, says Kerkhofs. We are like children in the garden. We can play and create things no else has created.Technical specs. Source Dinner in the SkyThose kids in their garden managed to find a way to create a five-ton platform (seven when filled with the staff of five and their 22 guests) that hangs from a 120-ton crane. And safely, of course, according to the code of whatever country it is in. This was elend so simple, says Kerkhofs, because the rules are not the same for every country. In fact, Dinner in the Sky is a unique enough attraction that rules have to be created for it alone. That means we are always trying to get the local authorities to see if they need more informationyou must be open to showing as much information as you have.The biggest engineering challenge of designing the gastronomical ride was not how to put people in the air but how to quickly put the entire rig on the road. The most difficult thing was to make it easy to set it up and break it down, he says. The platform, when suspended, is nine by five meters. On the road its six by two-and-a-half. The whole shebang can be assembled in two hours and disassembled in one. The Dinner in the sky framework is made out steel and everything is designed in a way that you only need one tool for set up and break down. All materials slide in and fold down in a way that you end up with a structure that you can transport on the back of a regular trailer, he adds.Kerkhofs says that 98% of the ideas he decides to commit to paper become a reality. He attributes this success rate to his 15 years of professionally playing with cranes. Im not an engine er, but I grew up between cranes and the construction world. There is no school for learning how you must work with these activities. Kerkhofs and Ghysels team does, of course, include a handful of degreed engineers and a few designers as well.Guests and staff are all secured on the platform. Image Dinner in the SkyCustomer SafetyKerkhofs useful experience extends far beyond the mechanics of how to hoist with a crane, into areas like the psychology of the consumer. For instance, by any engineers calculations, four cables would be more than sufficient to safely hold the dining platform. But Kerkhofs uses eight. Four is good, but eight makes people trusting, they feel secure when they see extra security.He also knows that not everyone is the model customer. The seats, tables, and the experience itself are designed accordingly. You always have people who behave not how we want, he says. So bags are not allowed up on the platform. The six-point security-belts buckle on the back of the s eat, out of reach.The vast majority of Kerkhofs customers behave quite well, though. People behave at heights. You can have the biggest playboy, the biggest macho guy. Go five meters high and hes like a child. You say shut up then they shut up. Its not a normal experience theyre not used to it. So we are a little bit the boss in the sky.Thats not to say Kerkhofs has any delusions of power. We dont feel ourselves as Godtotally not, he says. We are not God, but we bring them closer to God.Michael Abrams is an independent writer. For Further DiscussionIm not an engineer, but I grew up between cranes and the construction world. There is no school for learning how you must work with these activities.Stefan Kerkhofs, co-founder, Dinner in the Sky

Lionbridge - Translation and Other Work at Home Jobs

Lionbridge - Translation and Other Work at Home JobsLionbridge - Translation and Other Work at Home JobsLionbridge offers translation, interpretation, internet research, and dataentry opportunities. As an advantage, many of these opportunities allow you to work from home. Company Description Based in Waltham, MA and founded in 1996, Lionbridge employs more than 4,000 people and operates locations in more than 26 countries. Additionally, its Lionbridge Enterprise Crowdsourcing division employs a network of 100,000 work-at-home independent contractors to provide data management, translation, search evaluation, and testing via a crowdsourcing platform. In 2012, Lionbridge acquired Virtual Solutions, owner of crowdsourcing data-entry site VirtualBee (formerly KeyforCash). For more about applying to its home-based positions, see this profile of VirtualBee. The company provides translation and localization to international geschftlicher umgang clients. This includes developing products such as software, websites, marketing materials, documentation, multimedia and e-learning products, and training. Additionally, Lionbridge provides global crowdsourcing solutions for clients with international search engines and online marketing initiatives. Its Internet assessor jobs (similar to Googles ads quality rate positions) are in this division. Types of Work-at-Home Opportunities at Lionbridge Its crowdsourcing division (Lionbridge Enterprise Crowdsourcing) and its translation and interpretation divisions (the Lionbridge tafelgeschirr Partner Portal and Interpbridge) offer work at home for independent contractors. Applicants are usually recruited from specific countries. In these crowdsourcing opportunities, the positions include Internet assessors (who evaluate results of a web search), social media search consultants (who express opinions on the quality and content available on the Internet), Internet judges (who are similar to Internet assessors, but are hired world wide), in-country financial consultants (who monitor and document changes in regulatory requirements and national standards in a given country/market), and online maps specialists (who evaluate and improve online mapping software). unterstellung are all home-based freelance jobs. For translation, Lionbridge calls its independent contractors service partners. These include providers of translation, desktop publishing, audio services, multimedia services, technical writing, testing, software development, and internationalization services. These are also home-based, but interpretation jobs may be onsite. Because Lionbridge is a global localization company, most of its opportunities are for bilingual jobs, though there are some English-only jobs in crowdsourcing. The languages needed range from commonly spoken to niche. Usually, a specific type of a general language is required, such as Brazilian Portuguese, Canadian, or French. The languages include (but are not limited to) English, A lbanian, Azerbaijani, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Faroese, French, German, Icelandic, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kurdish, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Spanish, Mongolian, Quechan, Portuguese, Russian, Tatar, Zulu, Basque, Catalan, Galician, Swiss German, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Dutch, Danish, Polish, and Welsh. In addition to its home-based independent contractors, Lionbridge allows telecommuting for some of its other employment positions. Use work at home as a search term to search its jobs database for these opportunities. Applying to Lionbridge The application process varies, depending on what type of work you want to perform for Lionbridge. For crowdsourcing opportunities (Internet assessor, etc.), go to the Lionbridge Crowdsourcing Enterprise page. For the service partner jobs (often translation jobs), register as an expert. The application begins by collecting basic information, work experience, and education. Next, you check your areas of expertise (choices range from au tomotive and business retail to esoteric practices and law). It then asks what software and equipment you have access to (translation packages, operating systems, graphics, hardware, personal productivity packages, communications equipment, utilities, etc.), and your skill level with them. For interpretation jobs, which are not necessarily work-at-home jobs, go to the Interpbridge sign-up page and submit a general interpretation application for freelance jobs, or click on the title of a job, such as linguist, to submit an application. While most of Lionbridges work-at-home opportunities are for independent contractors, it allows some of its employment positions to be telecommuted. Search the companys jobs database using home as a keyword. Additional Information About Lionbridge Lionbridge operates in Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, the United K ingdom, and the United States. Corporate clients of Lionbridge include Adobe, Canon, Caterpillar, Cisco, Dell, eBay, EMC, Expedia, Forrester Research, Inc., Golden Living, Google, Honeywell, HP, Johnson Johnson Merck, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Oracle, Pearson, Philips, Porsche, PTC, Rolls-Royce, Samsung, Siemens, SkillSoft, Sony, The Court Services, the U.S. Department of Justice, Verizon, and Volvo. Related Information List of Search Evaluation CompaniesLeapforce Company ProfileAppen Butler Hill Company ProfileAds Quality Rater Job Profile