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On this episode of The Small Business Radio Show…
SEGMENT 1 with Stacie Haller, starting at 0:00: How many resumes do small business owners see that contain outright lies? Stacie Haller is here to share survey results that may surprise you. What can we do to verify candidates’ information and mitigate lying on career resumes and during the hiring process?
SEGMENT 2 with Faisal Hoque, starting at 18:30: How can we embrace change and improve our collective future with technology and innovation? Faisal Hoque is here to share his experiences leading companies through transformational journeys.
SEGMENT 3 with David Dennis, starting at 37:45: It’s a person’s ability to live beyond the inevitable problems and pains that can allow us to reach our fullest potential. David Dennis s here to help us get unstuck in our mindset to become our ideal and most fulfilled selves.
Sponsored by Truly Financial.
More on each segment below.
Segment 1: Stacie Haller is the Chief Career Advisor at ResumeBuilder.com. She has been in staffing and recruiting, career counseling, and job search coaching for over 30 years helping candidates achieve their career goals. Her hiring and staffing experience as a senior executive at major global staffing organizations has spanned economic climates.
- According to a study by ResumeBuilder.com, 35% of candidates have lied in the hiring process. Does this surprise you?
- What are the most common lies on career resumes and during the hiring process in general?
- Ways to mitigate lying in the hiring process
- 30% lied about their race/ethnicity and 27% lied about their veteran status
- Are career resumes useless now?
- How can you verify the candidates’ information?
- What about reference checking?
- Why many small businesses rush through the hiring process.
You can view the full results here: https://www.resumebuilder.com/1-in-3-have-lied-in-the-hiring-process/
Segment 2: Faisal Hoque is the founder of SHADOKA, NextChapter, and other companies that focus on enabling sustainable and transformational changes. He is a 3-time winning Founder and CEO of Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ awards. As a thought leader, he has authored a number of award-winning books on leadership, innovation, mindfulness, resilience, organizational transformation, and entrepreneurship, including the #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller Lift – Fostering the Leader in You Amid Revolutionary Global Change.
- It is through knowledge sharing that we may provide the greatest clarity on how to improve our collective future. How do we turn information into knowledge?
- Are people willing to share in order to benefit the collective future?
- What is the state of innovation in America? Are we falling behind?
- What revolutionary global change are we seeing right now?
- AI is going to be a multiplier of change in our society.
- How do we reinvent our society and our government for the next generation?
Segment 3: David Dennis is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Eckerd Connects, one of the nation’s largest non-profit social services organizations. When David became CEO of Eckerd 2007, the organization losing over $3 million annually, with an unsure future. Under his leadership over the past 16 years, Eckerd Connects has grown to serving approximately 40,000 clients each year through more than 160 programs across 20 states and D.C., employing nearly 2,500 dedicated staff, with close to $200 million in annual operating revenue. David’s career includes decades of leadership across the human services industry, including workforce development, behavioral health, juvenile justice, and child welfare. David is the author of the new book “GAMENESS: Land on your feet, not on your feelings.”
- What is gameness?
- Why land on your feet, not your feelings?
- What important lesson did you learn at age five?
- How do you overcome the adversity you experience in life?
- How can we turn setbacks into successes?
