by Howard Kesten, APA Search

What are the winning human resources people practices being used by today’s most successful aftermarket companies? What are the tactics utilized by successful career-seekers to always ace their interviews? What are the most common HR myths – believe it or not?

For nearly three decades, APA Search has helped numerous aftermarket companies find great talent. We have worked with our clients to help fine-tune their organizational structure as well as develop successful succession strategies.

In the coming months, we will share some practices that will help keep your company staffed with the most qualified executives, rather than the most available. If you’re a career-seeker, we’ll provide you with the secret sauce for effective and successful interviewing.

Topics for some of our upcoming articles will include:

* Simple Steps to Conduct Great Interviews

Techniques for remembering and delivering the most important questions.

* How to Ace a Job Interview

Easy to remember rules for interviewing at any level. How to really listen and provide honest, well thought out answers.

* Telecommuting – How and When Does it Really Work?

In what circumstances does telecommuting really work? How to know if someone is a good candidate for telecommuting.

* Non-Compete Agreements and the Two-Year Rule

Do non-competes hold up? Do all states endorse non-competes? When do they and don’t they work?

* A Recruiter Called Me – Now What?

You’re at work and a recruiter calls – what do you say? How should you react? What questions do you ask?

* Succession Planning and People Readiness

Is your company ready if it suffers the loss of a key executive? How do you get ready? How do you work with a small budget? How do you create and execute a simple succession plan?

* The Real Cost of Hiring the Wrong Candidate

What does it really cost when you hire the most available candidate rather than the most qualified? Let’s do the math.

Coming up on May 25: What are the winning HR  “People Practices” being used by today’s most successful aftermarket companies?

For years APA Search has been interviewing both candidates and clients. We have probably engaged in more than 50,000 interviews in all during that time. What did we learn? How are people in the most successful companies (not necessarily the largest) being treated by their employer? Why do we consistently receive unsolicited resumes from employees at some companies and yet never receive unsolicited resumes from employees at other companies? Why are people from some companies happier, more focused and outperforming their peers at other companies? What is the secret sauce?

What we’ve learned about winning People Practices came from you – our peers and aftermarket clients. We could probably fill a 500-page textbook with this information, but we will summarize some of the more critical winning practices in a few paragraphs.

While you’re waiting, visit www.apasearch.com for more information.