The Importance of Debriefing Your Recruiter After an Interview

Young man smiling during a job interview

  When you’re conducting a job search on your own, it’s up to you to do all the work, including following up with the hiring manager. However, things are a little different when you’re working with a Kansas City recruiter. Not only is it the recruiter’s job to advocate on your behalf, but it’s also up to… Read More »

Tips for Handling a Panel Job Interview

As leading Kansas City recruiters, Morgan Hunter knows that being interviewed by one hiring manager for a job is stressful enough. But the anxiety gets ratcheted up a few notches when there’s a whole panel involved. Oftentimes, it can feel like more of an interrogation and less of a job interview. To help ensure you handle… Read More »

How to Determine if a Candidate is a Perfect Fit for Your Job Opening

In a perfect world, you’d interview a few candidates, make a decision, and seamlessly integrate your new hire into the company. In reality, hiring is a lot more complicated than that. For starters, many candidates aren’t really who they appear to be when they’re interviewing. Sure you have all the “facts” in terms of where… Read More »

Are Your Job References Ignoring You?

It could happen to you: you get through a series of job interviews and you get an offer—which is contingent on your references checking out. So you call your references to let them know they’ll be getting a call from a hiring manager about you. And they don’t answer your calls. Or your emails. What… Read More »

Company Growing? Avoid Culture Shock for New Employees

There are huge companies we hear amazing stories about, Google, Facebook, Microsoft for example, that have kept their startup personality and passion as they have grown. The employees are happy and their growth became a benefit, not a pain. Some companies increase slowly, while others can have bursts of success. When a company is smaller,… Read More »

How to Find Top Talent Before They Are Stars

There are stars: the people who have been great their whole lives. 4.0’s, top company internships, automatic upward mobility. They expect nothing but the best, and have a hard time dealing with the worst.  Good schools are just names. Good students may flail in the real world. Then there are those that fly under the… Read More »