For Managers Only: Interviewer’s Cheat Sheet
By Miki Saxon
The goal when I coach managers at any level is to bring their hiring skills to core competency level and improve their hit rate—as measured in longevity, not just filling positions.
To help ensure that end, I developed a cheat sheet for them, too. I also have them send our CheatSheet for InterviewEEs© (see yesterday’s post) to any candidate in whom they’re interested.
Great interviews should bring enormous satisfaction to both interviewers and candidates—whether they result in an offer or not and the responsibility for making that happen rests with everybody involved.
No …read more

By Miki Saxon
Back when I was a headhunter I developed written interview guidelines for my candidates. Too often interviewing is seen as a contest between opposing sides rather than a mutually beneficial exchange of information.
It’s always worked well and I thought I’d share it with you. Print it out and keep it by your side. Customize it; add to it; tweak it as needed so that it works for you.
Be sure to come back tomorrow when I post a CheatSheet for managers.
RampUp Solutions’
CheatSheet for InterviewEEs©
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BASIC TENETS
1. People have to buy …read more

I wanted to take a moment and introduce Miki Saxon. Miki is one of our newest Business Channel Bloggers here at B5media – Her blog here, Leadership Turn. Though she is fairly to new to our family here on the Business Channel, Miki is no novice in business. Miki also blogs for the MAPping Company Success blog for her company, RampUp Solutions, Inc. She has been coaching executives on their Leadership Skills and building corporate culture for 10 years.
She uses a system she developed called MAP (mindset, attitude, philosophy)™ that’s predicated on the belief that every outcome starts with a …read more

Good Evening All!
I have been wanting to put together a post with some of the new people I have met in the blog world I live in daily. So this post is in honor of some great blogs I would recommend to you. Take a peek, go visit and see what you can learn.
Here are just a few:
1. Paul Schwabel is at the top of my list. Here is his blog: Personal Branding Blog. If you are not sure what a personal brand is, take a look. Everyone of us has a personal brand, do you know what yours …read more