Interviewing – Page 2 – Mercuras Group

Your Leadership Team Sucks, not HR

Probably… Considering people are labelled the primary asset of every organisation and by the overwhelming majority of leaders (just look at any company mission statement...zzz), it's amazing that the role of identifying, engaging, and securing future-performers is pushed on to relatively inexperienced staff, be they middle managers - or more likely with SMB’s - already over-stretched HR Managers. HR is not recruitment. That's why Talent Acquisition or Internal Recruitment functions are built inside each and every [...]

Your Leadership Team Sucks, not HRargonis2017-07-22T09:37:31+00:00

The First Interview

How do you conduct the first interview for new staff? BZZZZZ. Wrong. Trick question. You don't conduct the interview, the candidate does. The Mercuras Group 'Reverse Interview' process is something we developed to secure the top performers. If you've already engaged good people and lined them up for an interview, and you're genuinely excited to meet with them, then you need to impress them. They have options. You want them to want to work with [...]

The First Interviewargonis2017-07-22T08:17:20+00:00

Dunning, Kruger, & The Puzzle of Recruitment

Like most things; painting, psychology, sports, fashion, architecture; there are sets of fundamental rules, and everything else is just icing. Well yes and no… Two researchers in the late 1990’s, Dunning and Kruger, conducted a series of experiments around the postulation that there is a fundamental disconnect between self-assessment and actual capability according to the level of exposure an individual has to true expertise in a given field. It’s only when you get to a [...]

Dunning, Kruger, & The Puzzle of Recruitmentargonis2017-07-22T09:54:20+00:00