Walking your talk: Hiring from within your client base

Many organizations exist to advocate for and support clients with disabilities, but some of these organizations take it one step further. They underscore their commitment by deliberately hiring from within their client or consumer base, and in doing so, have...

An introduction to competency-based hiring

Many of you may already have heard about "competency-based" hiring and are using this approach within your own organization. If you've been wondering what competency-based hiring is or how it works this article is written to help answer some of...

Career Q&A: Conducting a successful interview

I was recently promoted to a management position at my organization, after six years. I now have to interview candidates to fill my old position, and who will report to me. The online ad has resulted in more than 75...

Interview questions that really work!

Imagine making your decision to hire someone solely based on a one-hour meeting. What happens when a candidate is schooled in the art of interviewing and masterfully maneuvers around all of your standard questions? Do you really know what this...

Ten steps to successful interviewing

Can we do this job another way? Would I work for myself? When I hire the right person, what do I plan to do to make sure that the person is successful on the job? After you have answered these...

Attracting talent: Living your values

In a world of talent wars, where it is virtually impossible to compete with the public and private sector in terms of pay scales, training dollars, benefits and perks; where funding pressure to spend as little as possible on administration...

An orientation plan in three phases

Is your workplace orientation plan a whirlwind one-day affair of meet and greet, look at the manual, sign some forms, go for lunch, here's your desk, and away we go? Or, is it a focused week of pouring over manuals...