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Cultural differences and recruiting and interviewing

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How do cultural differences affect recruitment and interviewing strategies? Do you have any experiences or best practices to share?

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A discussion on the affect of culture on recruiting and interviewing potential new employees.

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Recruitment issues are necessarily most dependent on realizing the population of the people being recruited. When recruiting, issues such as possible language problems and use of ambiguous keywords can create problems with efforts. Relating the key elements of the job without limiting the possible recruits is important. Using the term, "heavy lifting" could possibly stop qualified people from answering because there is such a wide range of what the term can mean. "Nights and weekends required" is another if large segments of the population have small children and there is ...

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