Babich & Associates

10/25/2021

This is a message for any candidate interviewing for a job as well as any hiring authority interviewing candidates. Over the past few months, since the pandemic forced lots of organizations to interview candidates via some kind of video technology, it has become popular for people to interview candi

10/11/2021

09/13/2021

WE WILL NEVER FORGET..

08/24/2021

If you follow this blog, you know that we spend a lot of time talking about how candidates mess up interviewing and how employers really mess up the interviewing process. It's easy to point out the negative, because it's something that people want to avoid.

08/16/2021

No matter how good a track record you might have..

08/09/2021

This is what I hear from candidates who are reporting to me about their interview. This quote usually follows them saying something like, "Well, when we were discussing money I told them what I was looking for.

06/28/2021

If you are a job seeker, it's very important to weave many stories about what you've done as examples of your success. People love stories.

06/07/2021

I am a great follower of Dan Ariely (or of anyone, for that matter, who studies the quirkiness of humanity, especially when it comes to making decisions). He has a column in at least every other Saturday’s Wall Street Journal where he talks about many aspects of human decisions and human psycholog...

05/17/2021

Here are some of the things that would totally turn us off: Tell me what you're qualified to do when you haven't looked for a job in five years and you have no idea what the market is like Want a $10,000 increase when you change jobs because your spouse says you deserve it Send me a three-pa...

05/03/2021

I referred one of my candidates to a company…he knew the V.P.

04/26/2021

This week I had a potential VP candidate interview with a new CEO of a small IT consulting firm. The candidate had built two companies just like this from zero to many millions of dollars.

04/19/2021