How to Screen Candidates

Learn how to screen candidates, including how to conduct a phone screen, reference-checking tips, and tricks for sorting applications.

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A team conducts a peer interview.
The Value of Peer-to-Peer Interviewing for Hiring and Retention
These peer interview tips can help you find the right candidates, making your team and company more successful.
Sending an Interview Confirmation Email
A well-crafted interview confirmation email can alleviate confusion and send the right message to candidates. Learn about interview confirmation emails and more at Monster.com.
Hiring managers undergoing the applicant resume review process.
7 Applicant Resume Review Tips for Employers
Feeling overwhelmed by the applicant resume review process? Implement these best practices to screen applicants and fill roles faster.
A candidate completing pre-employment testing.
Is Pre-Employment Testing Legal?
Considering using pre-employment testing to evaluate candidates? Here's what you need to know before you get started.
A hiring manager conducts resume screening to identify top candidates.
7 Top Resume Screening Tips
Here are seven easy tips for improving your resume screening process so you can hire top talent for your team faster.
A hiring manager writes a user experience engineer job description.
7 Top Applicant Screening Tips
These top applicant screening tips will help you recruit top candidates faster, making your business more successful.

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Setting Up a Pre-Employment Drug Testing Policy
Learn what you need to know before implementing an up-to-date pre-employment drug testing policy in a rapidly changing landscape.
How to Avoid Unconscious Bias in Hiring
How do you eliminate bias from your hiring process if you don’t know it’s there? These seven steps can help you avoid unconscious bias in hiring.
7 Top Resume Screening Tips
Here are seven easy tips for improving your resume screening process so you can hire top talent for your team faster.
Is Pre-Employment Testing Legal?
Considering using pre-employment testing to evaluate candidates? Here's what you need to know before you get started.
Sending an Interview Confirmation Email
A well-crafted interview confirmation email can alleviate confusion and send the right message to candidates. Learn about interview confirmation emails and more at Monster.com.
How to Close the Job Skills Gap With Your Hiring Process
These five steps can help you close the job skills gap at your organization so you have the right team in place to be successful.
How to Hire and Train Agile Software Developers

Is your company looking to reap the advantages of agile software development? Here’s how to hire the IT talent you’ll need.

7 Applicant Resume Review Tips for Employers
Feeling overwhelmed by the applicant resume review process? Implement these best practices to screen applicants and fill roles faster.

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Crafting the right interpersonal skills interview questions
Soft skills are often extremely important, yet hard to assess during the recruitment process. Learn more about interpersonal skills interview questions with Monster.com.
Find Top Talent Through Social Media Recruiting
Adding social media recruiting to your toolkit can help you find more qualified candidates quickly, while enhancing your employer brand.
Four things to know when hiring a consumer reporting agency
When it comes to hiring, background checks can narrow the field, but it's important to understand the rules that apply when you use a consumer reporting agency. Get more information on this and similar topics by checking out Monster.com.
Blocking Out Biases When Conducting an Interview

Unconscious biases can impact diverse workforce hiring. This simple rule will help you minimize their impact.

Always Run A Reference Check Before Offering The Job, and Other Reference Tips
Reference-checking can be illuminating and extremely valuable to the interview process. Learn how to do it right with tips from Monster.
The Value of Peer-to-Peer Interviewing for Hiring and Retention
These peer interview tips can help you find the right candidates, making your team and company more successful.
The Best Questions a Reference Checker Can Ask
Use these seven reference check questions to verify resumes, learn more about your top candidates, and prevent the cost of making a bad hire.