http://jrothman.com/blog/htp/2008/09/hiring-managers-phone-screen.html Hiring technical people and being hired can be difficult, no matter what the economy is doing. Use the tips here to hire better, or find a new job. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:05:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://jrothman.com/blog/htp/2008/09/hiring-managers-phone-screen.html/comment-page-1#comment-4970 HR World » Blog Archive » Wednesday Links: Phone Screenings, Welcoming New Employees, Leadership Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:53:37 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/htp/?p=709#comment-4970 [...] Hiring Technical People makes a really good point about why phone screens are something you just don’t outsource. [...] [...] Hiring Technical People makes a really good point about why phone screens are something you just don’t outsource. [...]

]]> http://jrothman.com/blog/htp/2008/09/hiring-managers-phone-screen.html/comment-page-1#comment-4964 Monica Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:09:26 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/htp/?p=709#comment-4964 Generally true, but when you're hiring for an expertise you don't have in-house, outsourcing a (not the) phone screen can make sense. (For instance, a start-up hiring its first QA person -- we developers like to think we know what to look for in a QA person, but the good QA people know things we don't, and tapping that seems smart.) Generally true, but when you’re hiring for an expertise you don’t have in-house, outsourcing a (not the) phone screen can make sense. (For instance, a start-up hiring its first QA person — we developers like to think we know what to look for in a QA person, but the good QA people know things we don’t, and tapping that seems smart.)

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