Importance of Job Description to Find the Right Talent
Today job seekers skim through a lot of job posts and the time span they spend on each job post is only a few seconds before making up their mind on which one to attend. So if you are going to hang around with your old job description for the post, you are very mistaken […]
Get Ten Tips for Employee Retention
Why would anyone want tips for employee retention? Well, the Harvard Business Review stated that for every 5 percent of employee retention, a company’s profitability increases by 25 to 85 percent (Harvard Business Review, “Putting the Service-Profit Chain to Work”). You can likely already start doing the math by seeing how just hanging on to […]
This Simple Approach Will Help Your People Learn Twice as Fast
Imagine this: a new piece of technology comes along that could dramatically increase your team’s productivity. That’s great news, but it means the people on your team need to learn something new. And learning takes time, sometimes lots of it. Unfortunately, some recent research reveals that the way most of us are taught makes learning something new more […]
How to Ask Reference Check Questions
Use references as another source of information for your hiring decisions. References should be used at the end of your hiring process, because they can be quite time-consuming and candidates might object to providing them until later. While conducting your reference calls, remember to: Sample Reference Check Questions
What Do the Different Levels of “Fit” Mean — Weak Fit
About 40–50 percent of all candidates who take our personality assessment end up scoring as a “weak fit.” All’s not lost with these candidates however — here’s why: Weak Fit — Snapshot: Weak Fit — Summary: A candidate may be rated as being a “weak fit” for one of two reasons: It’s important to note, […]
