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Candidate Abandonment: A Recruiter’s Nightmare
Candidate abandonment: If management understood anything about it, they would be livid. It’s the debilitating metric that HR hopes never sees the light of day. The trouble is that few companies track it. Most pay no attention despite the fact that high rates indicate...
Why “Ghosting” in Recruiting Needs to Stop
After clicking submit on a job application, more than half of applicants sit and wait like abandoned lovers waiting for the phone to ring. Many companies seem to have adopted the foolish practice of “ghosting" when it comes to dealing with job applicants. What's...
Why Aesthetics Matter in a Black-and-White World?
"I see dead trees," Steve told his employer a few years earlier. "And that's why I'm quitting my job." Today Steve designs log cabins for a small manufacturer in PA. He's been working here for about two years. The owner - his boss - loves his work ethic and his...
4 Steps to S.T.O.P Toxic Employees from Ruining Your Company
Advice to deal with toxic employees seem more abundant than sand in a desert. The problem is that without cooperation from the employee you might as well be shoveling with a rake! So let’s begin with the employee or manager who feels his success in life is...
Whack-A-Mole: Why Your Recruiting Process May Be Broken
You might think that with all the trouble companies are having finding enough qualified and skilled workers that the recruiting function would be working like a well-oiled machine! Think again! Recruiting is broken and management should just hang an “out of order”...
Pre-Hire Assessments: Secret Weapon of Best-in-Class Companies
More and more companies are turning to pre-hire assessments for hiring help. One reason might be that the cost of hiring mistakes has sky-rocketed. Estimates can rise to as much as five times a bad hire’s annual salary, according to Society of Human Resources...
Don’t Ignore the Value of Aesthetics Motivation in the Workplace
For many, there is no value added to the performance or the workplace when it comes to Aesthetics motivation. But let’s take a moment to think more deeply about Aesthetics and what it means to be motivated by form, art, and balance. We will likely find one or more...
6 Recruiting Metrics Your Business Can’t Live Without
In many organizations, the success of recruiting effort is measured by how quickly HR can post a job opening and fill it. Discussions between management and HR about how that success is measured and improvements made are laced with anecdotes, hunches, and ambiguity....
Experts Attest for PeopleClues Test Compliance
We are often asked about the history and development of PeopleClues®, our pre-employment test software. First researched, developed, and validated in the late 1990s, PeopleClues has undergone numerous upgrades, additions, and improvements since then. If anyone is...
Who’s the Fairest Candidate of Them All?
When it comes to interviewing candidates (and evaluating employee performance), most of us look into the mirror and hope we see someone like us looking back. The only logical question then is: how's that working? For most companies, the ready answer is it's not. That...