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Improve Your Hiring Process Time to revitalize your recruiting practices?


BY BARB GORMLEY A


s every seasoned club man- ager knows, a bad hire can be a costly and morale-sapping lesson.


The traditional hiring process—


screen resumés, hold interviews, and then perhaps assess candidates with a personal training or group exer- cise audition—can fall short if the hir- ing person or team hasn’t perfected the process. After all, it isn’t simple to


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evaluate technical skills, communica- tion style, cultural fit and more, in just a few interactions. But some managers have found


ways to tweak the process to increase their rate of success. Consider these tips to help discover the rock star em- ployees of your dreams.


RE-EVALUATE YOUR QUESTIONS When it comes to interview ques- tions, determine which ones are


most-frequently asked—and then don’t ask any of them, suggests Alanna Turco, a partner with 360impact Group, a Toronto recruiting and train- ing company. “Rehearsed answers to generic questions are useless,” she says. “Instead, go back to the job de- scription, check the key skills and characteristics that are required and then craft questions that are specific to the job.” Turco also encourages companies to ask candidates to bring 10 questions


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