Steve Penny

Best Employment Interview Questions That Education, Work History, Job Performance

Managers and business owners need to explore three dimensions of a potential employee in the hiring interview. The job candidate's ability, motivation and attitude. Ability is the most straight forward and easiest to determine that include the candidate's... Read >

5 Most Common SEO Missteps That Hurt Website Rankings

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is by far the least expensive way of getting free, well targeted traffic to your website. Most websites today are making five common SEO mistakes that are holding them back from achieving their top rankings. 1) Not hav... Read >

Motivate Job Applicants To Speak Candidly In The Behavioral Interview: Setting The Tone

If you want to motivate job applicants to speak candidly in the behavioral interview, you want to begin with small talk spending the first few minutes in casual conversation showing a sincere interest in them as a person. The employment interview should f... Read >

Motivate Job Applicants to Speak Candidly In The Behavioral Interview: Breaking The Ice

Hiring the best people means being the best. People will form long lasting impressions of you from this first crucial meeting. From the very beginning of your relationship, you want to create an environment that motivates the job applicant to speak openly... Read >

SEO Best Practices: Spider Check Your Website

It sounds obvious and simple, but if you don't spider check your work - how do you know it works? If you want to be sure your website is working for both people and search engine spiders like the GoogleBot, there is simply no substitute for spider checkin... Read >

Determining Your Best Behavioral Job Interview Format

What format for your hiring interviews will best serve your needs? One on one, with just you and the applicant. Two on one, with you and your boss or another person who'll be working with the new hire. And/or interview by a group. One on one is the ... Read >

Behavioral Job Interviews: What To Listen For

If you are a business owner or manager, so much of being a good behavioral job interviewer involves listening with precision. Listening is a vastly underrated skill. People just don't seem to think of it as a focused activity. Listening with precisio... Read >

How To Ask Questions In A Behavioral Job Interview

How you ask your questions in a behavioral job interview is critically important if you're going to get the maximum relevant information in the minimum about of time. Your interview questions should be open-ended. That is, questions that can't be answ... Read >

Second Telephone Interview Questions Screen Job Applicants Fast

As a business owner or manager, the purpose of the second telephone screening interview is to arrive at your short list. This second telephone screening interview comes after your staff has made an initial call confirming dates of employment and facts pre... Read >

Are Your Hiring Interview Questions Legal?

It's much easier to break laws regarding hiring discrimination than many people realize. Many commonly asked behavioral job interview questions are illegal and can result in lawsuits. You must be absolutely certain no aspect of your hiring procedures ... Read >