The questions you should – and shouldn’t – ask in an interview

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The questions you should – and shouldn’t – ask in an interview

So, you’re hiring a new member of staff. You’ve been through the rigmarole of advertising the role, sifting through the long list and identifying the candidates you want to see. Now, with the interview looming, you need to decide what questions you’re going to ask them.

But as much as knowing what questions you should be asking, it’s worth making sure you also know which are the ones you’re not allowed to ask.

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How to make sure good employees stay

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How to make sure good employees stay

To a greater or lesser extent, businesses spend money advertising a vacancy on job boards or through recruitment agencies, invest valuable time sifting through shortlists (which can also be long-lists, if the sifting process isn’t up to scratch) and more time still sitting across the table from a parade of candidates at interview.

But once the successful candidate has accepted the job, been given a pass to get into the building, allocated a computer and an email address, and given an induction there’s a danger that we simply take their presence for granted and, to all intents and purposes, forget about them.

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Avoid these common hiring mistakes

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Avoid these common hiring mistakes

Recruitment is a specialist skill. Done well, it means you’ll get the best talent available into your business, increasing your chances of adding to your bottom line.

Done badly, it can cost you money in trying to unpick the mistakes. In fact, conservative estimates suggest a bad hire can cost a business as much as 30% of that person’s annual salary.

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What’s the best way to manage communication around redundancy?

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What’s the best way to manage communication around redundancy?

In my last blog, I talked about how important it is for employers to be fair in how they deal with staff who are facing redundancy. Making someone compulsorily redundant is never a pleasant process, but it’s made an awful lot easier if you put in the effort to get it right.

At the time of writing, the end of the Government-backed furlough scheme is just 47 days away, leaving businesses who may be considering redundancies with limited time to put a fair and reasonable plan into place.

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