Tips For Hiring

5 Best Hiring Practices – How to Turn the Unpredictable into Predictable

September 21, 2016

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This is an Infographic.

Just the mere mention of the word makes you a little uncomfortable, doesn’t it? Let’s use it in a few sentences:

“That car’s performance is unpredictable.”

“The dog’s behavior is unpredictable.”

“The weather today is unpredictable.”

There’s nothing feel good about any of these. How about this one?

“It’s unpredictable how the new hire will do.”

No hiring manger wants to hear this, but what can be done to Continue reading →

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Online Reference Checking That’s Predictive

September 14, 2016

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This is a Podcast – 30 minutes

My special show guest today is Vincent Smith, the Director of Strategic Channels at OutMatch.com

Vince has spent many years in the recruitment and assessment industries. He is the co-creator of the powerful online tool called ChequedReference™.

This is an advanced pre-employment screening tool that automates candidate reference checking.

It was developed in conjunction with leading behavioral scientists at the State University of New York at Albany. It makes your screening and Continue reading →

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Automate Your Reference Checking – Better Results, Less Cost

August 28, 2016

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Automated Reference Checking, Online Reference Checking

This is a brief ARTICLE

Still enjoy playing telephone tag with a candidate’s referees? Technology now allows you to do this process online and automatically. Here are six things you may not have known about this very common — and very crucial recruitment practice:

1. Reference Checks and Background Checks Are Not the Same Thing

2. More Than Half of All Resumes and Job Applications Contain Untruths*

3. Traditional Reference Checks Can Take Weeks to Complete

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8 Reason to Use Assessments for Retail Hiring

August 24, 2016

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This is an Infographic

Hiring good retail sales people is difficult for most retail owners as they are still hiring ‘like it’s 1999’.

Using assessments within the hiring process will ensure you are assessing the innate customer service and selling attributes that will drive greater product turnover at point of sale.

This infographic give you a quick overview of what you need to measure, and why!

Call us for a quick demo on how we can help you assess ANY Continue reading →

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The Advantage of Job Benchmarking When Using Employee Profiling (Job Fit)

August 4, 2016

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Benchmarking Jobs, Employee Profiling, Job Fit

This is an Article

What is the Advantage of Benchmarking Jobs?

Many assessment products that purport to be designed for hiring and promotion decisions only provide information about the candidate, with no reference to the position for which they are being considered. The Prevue Assessment compares candidates against Prevue Benchmarks: a customized job fit profile that describes the ideal candidate characteristics for the positions in your organization.

When you view Prevue Reports that use a Prevue Benchmark, you get Continue reading →

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About to Hire? Here’s Your 4 Critical Planning Questions

July 31, 2016

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Recruitment Planning

This is a Podcast – 8 Minutes

Here are the four suggested areas that are critical to address when planning to hire a new employee. Obviously the job role will dictate the weight given to each, or whether assessment is need in that area at all.

Can they do it? This relates to specific job knowledge, skills, training, and education. This is learned behaviour.

How will they do it? This is innate behaviour – attitude, initiative, motivation, interests etc.

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What Are the Most Desirable Attributes of Successful Employees?

July 24, 2016

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This is a Podcast – 8 Minutes

Back in the early 90s two well respected Organisational Psychologist, Drs. David Bartram and Patricia Lindley, set out to construct a new psychometric assessment. They wanted to ensure their new tool would measure the key attributes and abilities that best identified “job-fit”. Obviously, their first question was, “What are these?”

In this podcast I outline Bartram and Lindley’s findings and their tool that enables you to reliable measure these and align them Continue reading →

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Reference Checking Just Got Easier and Better!

July 21, 2016

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This is an Article:

Still hiring like it’s 1999? Technology is speeding up the time to hire. Our on-line applicant processing platform has attest to that.
Now it time to stop playing telephone tag and take your reference checking on line. This interesting article explains the pros and cons – Call us for a demo.
http://www.assess.co.nz/articles/reference_check.pdf

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What is the Difference Between an Ipsative and Normative Assessment?

June 9, 2016

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This is a Brief Article

It never ceases to amaze my how many companies continue to use assessments like DISC and Meyers Briggs for hiring. Science is clear that this is a big no, no! Read this very brief article to understand why.

http://www.assess.co.nz/articles/Normative_Ipsative.pdf.

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What Are The Three Main Pre-Hiring Tests?

June 3, 2016

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This is a Podcast – 6 minutes

According to the Aberdeen Group, the world’s leading B2B researchers and business data analysts, 2/3rds of the world’s top companies use pre-hiring assessments.

But, not all assessment (employment tests, employment profiles) have the same purpose.

In this podcast we briefly outline the top three. What they are, what they test for and when to use them

Pre-employment tests are used to narrow candidates down to evaluate the very best job fit