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The Right Way to Check Someone’s References

Harvard Business

You think you’ve found the right candidate to fill your open position and now it’s time to check references. Checking references is often seen as one small piece of the hiring protocol—the final motion to go through before you extend a formal offer to a candidate. Should you ask each person the same questions?

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Case Study: Are Our Customer Liaisons Helping or Hurting?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. “There was that argument I had with the PCE,” he finally said, referring to a relatively new position in the hospital: the patient care executive.

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Student consulting – it does more than deliver

Tom Spencer

Smith may refer to student consulting clubs as the ‘kiss of death’ for interview success but as they imply in the post (I can’t tell Smith’s gender because he or she is writing pseudonymously), the key to success actually lies in the examples you give and what it says about you.

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How to Convince Your Boss to Let You Work from Home

Harvard Business

. “But times, they are a-changin’ We live in a different era.” “They refer to it as ‘shirking from home’ or ‘working remotely, remotely working. Case Study #1: Propose a pilot and then ace it by being responsive and productive. ” Still, working from home has a bad rap.

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