Mindy Fineout has been in the staffing and recruiting industry for over seven years, and has experience in both corporate and agency recruiting. She is a recruiter for Yoh, a PHR certified professional and writer for industry-related online publications. Her experience spans recruiting and includes multiple verticals and expertise in sourcing, closing, recruiting strategies, and the candidate experience. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts. Mindy is a writer, cyclist, and musician, and lives in Seattle with her husband.
A few weeks ago on MSNBC.com, Eve Tahmincioglu shared the experiences of several job candidates that interviewed as many as 10 times for a job before getting rejected. It’s understandable that companies that haven’t hired for so long are hesitant …
For most recruiters, the job is not over once a candidate is placed. Checking in on candidates, or performing quality checks (as we call them at Yoh), can help ensure an employee’s success by identifying obstacles and mitigating problems before they …
There is a growing trend of employers asking job candidates to reveal their age, disclose their religious beliefs, or even surrender the keys to their house. What’s more, lawmakers claim it’s perfectly legal. Think I’m joking? I wish I was. …
In January, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the Big Apple will open its first specialized high school for software engineering. This September, the Academy For Software Engineering (AFSE) will open its doors to approximately 400 ninth-grade students. …
A few weeks back, I tuned in to the CBS reality television series Undercover Boss. Each week on the show, a company’s senior executive goes undercover within his or her organization to see how the company really works at the …
As a recruiter, you’re familiar with the post and pray method: You post a job and then pray the right candidate applies. This method might occasionally yield good results. However, given shrinking candidate markets and increasingly technical application processes, companies …
I own the upper unit of a two-unit condo in Seattle. As a city dweller, I reserve the right to be surrounded by hundreds of people without actually knowing any of them. That said, my downstairs neighbors are like family. …
This past spring, 1.7 million students graduated from college, and hiring managers were faced with some important choices. Would you rather hire a recent grad from the University of Houston with a 3.7 GPA or a grad from Rice University …
Spin class. It’s my best friend, my worst enemy, and my saving grace when the air outside is so cold that your skin cracks. I love listening to a chorus of 30 bikes humming in unison, feeling the temperature of …
Let me tell you about my worst interview ever. It occurred about five years ago for an HR manager opening in a large specialty foods store. The hiring manager who interviewed me was a stoic, except for when she dwelled …
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