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I recently had a job interview and the manager expressed a certain level of discomfort towards my Facebook page entries and pictures. Should we now start worrying about our Facebook communication when it comes to getting hired? Isn’t finding a job already difficult enough?

Getting a job is difficult and finding the right job should be even more difficult. Smart and successful companies don’t hire employees based on education and CVs, they look for a corporate culture fit and a match in personalities and behavior. So you can see why they might go to great lengths just to be sure that a candidate is genuine. And availability of published information makes it tempting to use it as a quick reference check or a tool to gage true personality traits away for the staged interview act that many employees have learned how to master with time. ...read more

Over the years, I had my share of hiring wrong employees who didn’t demonstrate enough loyalty to me or to the company. What can I do to get the new hires to be more loyal? ...read more

Is having an MBA important to move to the next management level?

Having an MBA degree might encourage companies to give you an interview. The question they would have in mind would be, “Can this person deliver?” Some MBA holders don’t stand out while others with a high school diploma are running successful companies. Companies look for employees with a holistic approach to business, inquisitive mind, courage to make mistakes, common sense (although sometimes common sense is not that common) and loads of good ethics make anyone a good human asset. An employee who can think and act like a business owner with loads of knowledge, a good learning attitude, some experience and finally personality is the one to grab on to regardless…and that’s just my two cents.

One of our non-Arab waiters sings in the restaurant around customers. We talked to him but we keep receiving complaints. Should we just fire him or penalize him?

My policy on hiring and firing is simple: hire slow, fire fast. Choosing the right people from the start is much better than trying to improve the skills of the wrong people. Having said that, once you hire the right employee you need to give him training, a brand culture manual or some sort of guidance that sets expectations. When it comes to non-Arab waiters, many of them are not highly educated, they speak limited English and/or Arabic and they come from completely different cultures. Maybe it’s acceptable to sing around customers in his hometown. Maybe it’s a self-control mechanism to calm himself when he’s nervous. Some people eat, others sleep; he sings. ...read more