Tips For Hiring

What Do Employees Really Want in a Job?

May 23, 2017

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I recently came across an employee survey that was conducted by authors Steve Lauer and Jack Gebhardt as part of their preparation for an HR book. Although these results are American based, I think they are interesting and could give us some “food for thought” in respect of employee retention. The survey was an informal one based on entry-level job positions. Here are just some of the results…

The most common reason for Continue reading →

You’ve Found The Perfect Candidate – Now Let’s Do a Reference Check

May 18, 2017

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Well, you ‘think’ you have found the perfect candidate! How do you now get the Real Story on that candidate’s history before you make an offer?

Committing to a new hire is a big deal, both in management time and money. You need to get it right!

Whether you’re hiring hourly employees or corporate leaders, you’ve spent money and hours to recruit, assess, and interview many (or most) of your Continue reading →

Using Psychological Assessments for Business – Why the Fear?

April 21, 2017

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This is a Brief Guest Article

Although we are Organisational Psychologists, we tend to stay away from the word ‘psychologist’. It’s a noun that breeds the fear into even the strongest CEO. Business leaders and owners have the impression we are ‘brain scanning’ and that our occupation is aligned to the ‘dark side’ 🙂

Another word we drop from our vocabulary is, ‘test’ – it’s a word that implies pass or fail. Assessing candidates for employment is all about Continue reading →

How to Evaluate Written Communication When Hiring Sales Persons

April 17, 2017

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What sales role today doesn’t require good written communication? Emails alone make up a tremendous amount of sales communication. And then there’s sales proposals. Although many organisations have these on template, most sales roles require their sales people to craft proposals for individual prospects (if only the ‘deal’ portion). The ability to craft good written communication is still a strong requirement in many sales roles.
In your previous sales hiring appointments, how did Continue reading →

Testing Job Candidates – Personality Verses Behaviour

March 3, 2017

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I am re-posting this article after yet another prospective client approached us today trying to decide between test A, or B.

My first action was to ask the test publisher (or in most cases their distributor) one important question. “Can this tool be legally defended – and will the publisher carry the weight of that defense?” Many employee profiling tools are not legally defensible.

There are many occasions were I come across organisations that are using Continue reading →

22 Characteristics of Great Salespersons

February 27, 2017

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What are the characteristics of great salespersons? Here are 22 well researched competencies that will help you avoid your next sales hiring disaster.

Whilst it would be difficult to ‘measure’ all of these 22 sales competencies during your hiring process, I feel a core of 8 or 10 would serve you well.

There are also some great interview questions to accompany each of the 22.

Our SalesMax assessment measures many of these competencies

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How a Large Insurance Company Modernised Their Hiring Process – Employee Profiling

January 20, 2017

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First Acceptance Corporation is a leading provider of personal auto insurance and other related products. Acceptance is a licensed insurer in 25 states and operates 350 retail locations, as well as a call center staffed with employee-agents. They hire a lot of people!

Checkout this brief case study on how Acceptance moved from paper based hiring using an Applicant Processing System (APS), plus our hiring assessments (employee profiling) and Continue reading →

Reference Checking Redefined

January 17, 2017

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This is an Offer For a FREE 14 Trail of our Online Reference Checking Platform

Are you still hiring like it’s 1999!

Stop playing telephone tag – It’s time to move to online reference checking.

We have taken assessment logic and applied it to the reference checking process.

Now reference checking has science! It’s fast, predictive, standardises the process and is job specific.

Get your references early in the hiring process for quicker screening, 2 minutes for referees to complete, Continue reading →

Online Reference Checking – Take a 14 Day Trial

December 15, 2016

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In my previous posts I have been enthusing about our new online reference checking platform.

It not only saves huge amounts of time (no more playing telephone tag!), It’s also highly predictive of future job fit.

Listen to my previous podcast where I interview the creator, Vincent Smith – http://www.tipsforhiring.com/online-reference-checking-thats-predictive/

Here’s a one page info sheet and offer to put us to the test with a 14 day no obligation free trial.
https://www.assess.co.nz/reference-check-trial/

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5 Ways to Turn Your Hiring Process Into Measurable Analytics

December 13, 2016

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Recruitment Analytics

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I see two huge opportunities for HR Recruiters and Hiring Managers in 2017.

One is moving your reference checking online (see http://www.assess.co.nz/reference-checking ) and the other, analyzing data in the post-hiring period to measure hiring impact.

The latter is very rarely done and this leaves hiring managers unaccountable for bad hires. It is also a missed opportunity to collect and apply usable data for the next hiring round. You don’t have to be a Business Continue reading →