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Perhaps he doesn’t have the skills you thought he did, or perhaps she lacks the attention to detail despite being technically sound; either way, this type of situation is extremely common seemingly unavoidable in the corporate world even though research shows that unstructured interviews tend to be highly ineffective at predicting job performance.

15 Steps To Select Talent Assessment Solution: Predicting business performance

Over the past 30+ years, businesses have spent billions on talent assessments. Many of these are now being used to understand job candidates. Increasingly, businesses are asking how (or if) a predictive talent acquisition strategy can include the use of pre-hire assessments? As costs of failed new hires continue to rise, recruiters and hiring managers are looking for any kind of pre-hire information to increase the probability of making a great hire.

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Can Science Fix The Hiring Process?: How not to hire the wrong person

The answer? Chances are, that person aced the interview. But despite all of the good first impressions (usually made within the first ten seconds of the interview) and friendly vibes, it turns out that that person doesn’t live up to the hype. Perhaps he doesn’t have the skills you thought he did, or perhaps she lacks the attention to detail despite being technically sound; either way, this type of situation is extremely common seemingly unavoidable in the corporate world even though research shows that unstructured interviews tend to be highly ineffective at predicting job performance.

4 Insidious Impacts Of Mis-Hire: It’s time to shift your philosophy about people and hiring

Frankly, while people and business have remained virtually unchanged, human beings’ perspectives, outlook, attitudes about work and their ability to manifest what they want—when they want—has spurred a fundamental shift in the way people operate in and around business and work today. With a plethora of newly created job options coupled with a major changing of the guard in the workforce, smart companies must equip themselves to navigate through these new employee/workplace paradigms.

How Actively Rehiring Former Employees Creates A Thriving Business: The Boomerang Principle

Simply put, the Boomerang Principle put into action, will dramatically and positively impact every organization that embraces it. The principle in practice helps drive down the cost and time of recruiting, increase productivity, positively position the company in the marketplace, and create a more sustainable talent model for the future.

Technology Can Stanch Brain Drain: Today’s workers want to be on the cutting edge

But the breathtaking pace of work-place management technology means there are multiple available solutions to both recruit, and retain, employees to your workplace. It’s absolutely critical to stay abreast of this technology and its impacts, especially if you want to attract and retain younger generations of employees who are tech-savvy digital natives.

Personality Assessment Saves Employers Time And Money: How to zero in on the right-fit candidate

Meet Sally. Sally has been the office manager at a dental office for 10 years and has seen it all. The candidates Sally has interviewed during her tenure can be compared to the erratic personalities on the sitcom:The Office. Her story is not unique, anyone who has interviewed or hired an employee can relate to the wide range of temperaments, values and communication styles of people that apply for jobs. For folks in HR it can be a challenge to find the right fit for the company skill-wise, let alone the best fit when it comes to personality.

How To Handle Increasing Restrictions On Immigrations: A few examples of specific country measures

One of the current realities in global mobility is that many countries are increasing immigration restrictions for non-resident workers. Usually this is in response to protecting jobs for local residents, who are being passed over for cheaper foreign labor.

‘Acquihires’ Are On the Rise: They come with a new set of challenges

Second, companies need more tech talent – and fast – to compete with the scrappy startups that are disrupting their business models. Acquihiring is a great way to add bulk talent with rare skill sets in a short time frame. Lastly, as companies buy technology instead of building software and systems on their own, they need the talent that originally developed the technology to stick around and support it. After all, what good is buying a technology if no one knows how to support it?