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Show the Love

Is the Grass Greener? Most recruiters in Colorado will tell you that their phones are ringing off the hook with candidates who are eager to find new opportunities. The callers aren’t necessarily unemployed - many [...]

Remote On-boarding

From the minute a new employee accepts an offer, they are evaluating whether they made the right career choice. Believe it or not, having a solid on-boarding strategy for your new employee, especially those will [...]

10 Best Interview Questions

While these general questions can be a good jumping off point, we find the best interview questions are specifically tailored for the position you are hiring. If you would like assistance crafting questions to help [...]

Top 10 Hiring Mistakes

Experience Factor has helped hundreds of companies hire thousands of candidates.  We’ve learned many lessons along the way and understand how detrimental it can be to make simple mistakes during the hiring process.  Here are [...]

The Pause

From the desk of Stephanie Klein – CEO Experience Factor Nothing like an international pandemic to force us all to pause. Pause our day-to-day lives, pause how we socialize, how we shop, how our kids [...]

Introverts in the Workplace

“Introverts” are often thought of as shy or unsocial. However, this is not necessarily true. While shyness is a fear of people due to insecurity or social anxiety, introversion is a more complex personality trait. [...]

How to Discover Happiness at Work

The Danish have a word to describe their happiness at work: “arbejdsglæde”. This concept has given them much press lately, and for a good reason. What can we learn about their happiness as it translates [...]

Create Conversations to Increase Motivation

Increased communication in an office setting clearly improves productivity, motivation, and collaboration. Unfortunately, numerous employees feel voiceless at their jobs daily. Many managers overlook the importance of getting to know their staff. Discovering what each [...]

Interview Questions To Ask

Being prepared for an interview can demonstrate to a future employer that you’re truly invested in your career. Besides familiarizing yourself with the company’s website and objectives, good interview questions can also help you uncover [...]

Offer Accepted!

Job seekers in Colorado have more options than ever; there is no denying that we have come into a candidate’s market. This makes hiring more competitive and challenging. Top contenders likely have several job offers [...]

The Evolution of Employee Retention

For many organizations, a retention plan is focused primarily on employees that have been working within the company for an extended period of time. However, retention really begins with hiring and doesn’t end until the [...]

Six critical rules of resume writing

Fred Runyan didn’t want to be left holding the bag when the Northern California based management consulting firm he worked for completed a pending merger. After 10 years with the firm, the senior consultant knew there would [...]

Answering the “tell me about yourself question”

Let’s face it; interviewing is stressful enough without having to answer stupid interview questions. But unfortunately, many interviewers, because of habit, lack of preparation time, poor training, or yes, even laziness, often ask stupid interview questions. Of [...]

Working With A Recruiter

Working with a recruiter is one of the best ways to fast-forward your career. It is your opportunity for a one-on-one relationship with a career professional who is dedicated to serving your interests. You probably [...]

Interview Questions To Ask

Toward the end of most job interviews, the interviewer will give you the opportunity to ask questions. You must ask at least one question; if you do not it signals the interviewer that you don’t [...]

Interview Questions You May Be Asked

Below is a sampling of some behavioral questions that you may be asked in an interview: Initiative / Self Starter What kind of constructive criticism have you received from your supervisors/managers that you have [...]

Corporate Culture and Recruiting

Corporate culture once again came into consideration following Yahoo’s decision to end its work from home policy. CEO Marissa Mayer says it was a necessary step to rebuild employee creativity, accountability and engagement at a [...]

Talent-Management Strategies

At a time when the unemployment rate is above eight percent and people are desperately seeking work, employers are surprisingly having difficulty filling critical positions. According to a recent article in Chief Executive, the reason [...]

Negotiating Your Salary

Most of us would probably like to have a higher salary. Most of us are also probably hesitant to negotiate a higher salary. According to Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Claire Suddath, we don’t need to be. [...]

Distractions in the Workplace

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, workplace reporter Rachel Emma Silverman discusses the distractions bombarding the modern workday, which often prevent us from efficiently accomplishing our tasks. Such distractions could be questions from co-workers, [...]

Managing Job Stress

Most of us experience work-related stress on some level. In fact, pressure at work is the number two cause of stress after financial worries. The Wall Street Journal’s Sue Shellenbarger recently discussed some of the [...]

The Power of Recruiting

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) recently released findings on the power of individual human resources functions and recruiting came out on top as the most impactful HR function for businesses. As we know here in [...]

Why Employers Should Use a Staffing Agency

Despite high levels of unemployment, many Colorado employers have difficulty finding qualified candidates to fill job openings. Employers point to the talent pool’s lack of technical job skills, experience, business knowledge or formal qualifications. However, [...]

Employers Digest – March 2012

Our Market Pulse Survey finds Colorado business leaders upbeat about 2012 The results are in. Colorado business leaders are feeling confident about the 2012 economy, according to the Experience Factor Market Pulse survey sent last [...]

Are Resumes Relevant?

Historically, resumes have been a critical part of the hiring process for employers and candidates. They have allowed candidates to highlight who they are and what they have done, and allowed companies to review a [...]

Employers Digest – November 2011

Recent articles on hiring, talent management and leadership: November 2011 Skilled help wanted Stephanie Klein, President and CEO ofExperience Factor, is a regular columnist for the Denver Business Journal. Her column looks at one of [...]

Employers Digest – October 2011

Recent articles on hiring, talent management and leadership: October 2011 Let’s Get Creative It’s easy to put “creatives” in a category all their own, where they’re revered for their innovative thinking. Creativity and innovation, though, [...]

Employers Digest – September 2011

Recent articles on hiring, talent management and leadership: September 2011 Predictions for employment in fast-changing world Stephanie Klein, President and CEO of Experience Factor, is a regular columnist for the Denver Business Journal. Her most [...]

Denver Employment Outlook

As appeared in the Denver Business Journal -- By Stephanie Klein It goes without saying that things in the Colorado business marketplace are changing at warp speed. The recently roller coaster of economic outcomes and [...]

Employers Digest – August 2011

Recent articles on hiring, talent management and leadership: August 2011 Difficult Decisions: Principles to Live By You’re constantly bombarded with complex questions and issues that require quick, decisive action. If you’re like many others, you [...]

Employers Digest – July 2011

Recent articles on hiring, talent management and leadership: July 2011 Hiring in a Crisis When a business is weathering a crisis, the emphasis is usually placed on just keeping its collective head above water. Often [...]

Employers Digest – June 2011

Recent articles on hiring, talent management and leadership: June 2011 Succeed at Hiring Hiring someone new is hard enough – posting the job, screening applicants, interviews, benefits and pay negotiations. What’s even harder is dealing [...]

Employers Digest – May 2011

Recent articles on hiring, talent management and leadership: May 2011 The Truth Behind What Motivates Us Carve a few minutes out of your day to watch this entertaining and surprising video about the truth behind [...]

Employers Digest – April 2011

Recent articles on hiring, talent management and leadership: April 2011 Walking the Line The difference between effectively managing your employees and micromanaging them can be difficult to discern. Walking that fine line is no easy [...]

Employers Digest – March 2011

Recent articles on hiring, talent management and leadership: March 2011 What Happens When Your Business Stalls? Don’t be put off by the alarmist title (“Reinvent your business before it’s too late”) in thisHarvard Business Review [...]

Employers Digest – January 2011

Recent and relevant business articles on leadership, hiring and talent management. Introverts Make Better Bosses? This Harvard Business Review article, published in the December 2010 edition, looks at why introverts may actually make better bosses, [...]

Employers Digest – April 2009

Boomer Love Stephanie Klein: We’re back! Crazy times mean drastic measures—like re-launching The Boomer Group newsletter, getting covered in the New York Times, Denver Post and Denver Business Journal—all this month. News to Use U.S. government focuses [...]

Catering to the Boomer Crowd

Ere.net - by Elaine Rigoli New methods for attracting baby boomers to the workforce, like The Boomer Group, are chronicled in this article.   For more information on how to recruit the best employees, call [...]

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