Shake Shack, HootSuite, and others spill their interviewing beans. Think these through if you want to impress the heck out of your future boss.

When the interviewer asks if you have any questions for them, it's your opportunity to show them how much insight, moxie, and knowledge you have stored up. Here's your playbook.

For 30 years, Jim Kouzes has asked leaders about their peak performances for "Leadership Challenge"--the book he and Barry Posner coauthored that has been called the best ever written on the subject. Fast Company talks to Kouzes about the essentials of leadership.

Whether you're being interviewed to be an intern or a CEO, you're going to run into a few notoriously tricky questions--here's a road map of what you'll be asked, and how to craft impressive answers to even the toughest questions.

Recruiting is among a company's most important challenges, but it's difficult to get a sense of someone based on a resume and a couple meetings. Here are three tips to help you hire employees who are the best fit.

You need a top-notch team to do your best work--but you need to hire them first. Here's half a dozen common ways managers shoot themselves in the human-resources foot.

Francis Fukuyama, one of America's best known public intellectuals, talks with Fast Company about drones, terrorism, Hollywood, model airplanes, and why Velcro rules.

Normally, having a large pool of qualified candidates to choose from while hiring is a good thing. However, with national unemployment remaining above 9%, many employers are finding themselves overwhelmed with candidates. Here's how to let the best candidates rise to the top.

Some would argue that the only thing that predicts success in a job is actual success in that job. But there's one important interview question you need to ask if you want to place a person in a position to succeed, a question that would have predicted Capt. Sully had the potential to be not only be a great pilot, but a hero.