Clues You Need to Hire Right

When the SHIFT Hits Your Plan, Make Change Work for You!

With every breath we take and every minute that passes. We change. The world changes. Just watch what will happen in the next minute or while you’re reading this article.

We want life to be simple and predictable. But life is full of surprises and unintended circumstances. In fact life seems to love channel surfing, changing things…

A Recruiting Funnel That Works

It’s tough to find the right talent these days. Blame it on your recruiting funnel.

Many companies find they have more jobs to fill for a variety of reasons – turnover, retirement, and growth. Nearly half of employers report they are having difficulty filling positions with internal candidates due to a growing skill shortage. Time to fill jobshas increased steadily since 2010. Employers estimate…

A recent report projected that bank tellers have a 98% chance of being replaced by automation. Based on my most recent experience, I agree.

What started as a simple banking transaction ended with me writing this article.

It’s actually refreshing to walk into the bank occasionally (instead of using the drive-through or online banking) and be greeted by name and a smile. Many tellers pass the basic…

Quick Answers to FAQs about PeopleClues and Other Pre-Employment Test Systems

PeopleClues is one of the fastest growing pre-employment test systems. As part of its growth, questions come up. Prior to a recent webinar, participants were asked to submit questions.  Many reiterated a few of the frequently asked questions (FAQS) about pre-employment tests.  Below is a list of the questions asked and brief responses. To listen to the recorded session and full discussion, we…

Best Techniques for Employee Hiring Process

The responsibility of hiring the right people for your organization is huge. As you sift through potentially qualified candidates, you want to make sure you’re doing everything you can to separate the best from the rest. You want to make sure you present your organization with the people who not only know the most about the job, but who will also be able to complement the strengths and weaknesses…

Attention Managers: Multitasking May Be Hurting Productivity

When a hiring manager is asked to list the most important job skills, multitasking often appears near or at the top of list.

For sure, top performers carry heavy workloads. Expectations are high to get more done with fewer resources in less time. Unscheduled disruptions and unanticipated distractions seem to be a common occurrence too.  So it means sense that managers would place so much…

Sales Aptitude Tests A Key To Success

You’ve got a job opening for a sales professional. You want to do some type of pre-employment testing for sales fit to see how successful the individual will be in the position. A sales aptitude test provided by Success Performance Solutions can help you make better decisions when hiring sales professionals. A sales aptitude test will analyze the personality and ability of a sales professional in…

Selecting applicants for a job opening is never easy. Make the wrong choice and it could cost your business time and money training the new hire or finding a more qualified replacement. Business hiring requires accuracy and efficiency, which is what you get when you include a pre-employment test into the hiring process. A pre-employment test is a great way to gauge a person’s abilities to perform…

How Can DISC Help Improve Teams?

DISC is one of the most popular employee assessments on the planet. And yet many organizations, its managers, and employees don’t understand how DISC can be used to build better teams.

In this 3 minute video Ira S Wolfe discusses how one organization used DISC to understand its management team better. To the executive’s surprise, they all fit together fairly well. But that’s really that…

Employers seeking top talent might learn a lesson or two from singer sensation Adele. In her mega-hit Hello, Adele asks, “I was wondering if after all these years you’d like to meet, to go over everything?” She follows with “Can you hear me?” Well, jobseekers are asking the same thing to potential employers. And while it’s not years but days or even hours since a candidate reached out, they too…

Candidates blame applicant tracking software (ATS) for a dehumanizing approach to employee selection. Employers blame the software for high rates of candidate abandonment. But an ATS is not to blame. Truth be told, many employee screening and selection processes were dehumanized long before ATS. Many assumed software was supposed to fix it. But as the saying goes: garbage in, garbage out. In most…

In this world of uncertainty, we know one thing for sure – leaders need to be capable of leading their organizations through Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity, or VUCA.  According to a recent survey of 13.124 leaders conducted jointly by Development Dimensions International and The Conference Board, “leaders will either succeed well or fail miserably in how they step up to the…

Fishing is a fun pastime for many people.  Recruiters don’t have that luxury. I have to admit I know little about fishing. But during my recent interview on Business Builders Show about Recrooglization (or Recruiting in the Age of Googlization), hosts Marty Wolff and Kerry Kearney hooked me with a great analogy shared by fisherman and recruiters. They got my mind racing. Kerry asked me during one…

Is the Application Better at Screening Than the #Resume?

One of the biggest challenges faced by recruiters and hiring manager is the resu-mess – the tidal wave of unqualified applicants that buries people and overwhelm the process.

The screening process typically starts with the candidate completing an application or uploading a resume. But few companies seem to consider the impact one or the other has on finding the best employees. They select the…