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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...
How to Hire the Best Restaurant Manager
The wrong restaurant manager can be a colossal disaster with a devastating impact on the bottom line and reputation. Hiring (or developing) the right manager offers little margin for error. The credentials, skills, and abilities bar has been raised for restaurant...
Press Release | unProductive: The Dirty Little Secret about Employee Motivation
Success Performance Solutions has announced the release of its newest white paper titled unproductive: The Dirty Little Secret about Employee Motivation. With skill gaps widening, time to hire increasing, and 8 out of 10 workers lacking the passion to reach their full...
Motivation | Is It a Skill?
Many managers consider motivation as something employees have or don't have. And when they don't have it, the popular belief is that you can create it with the right incentives. But what if motivation is a skill that is learned and can be taught? At its core,...
This Is No Joke! What Makes Best-in-Class Companies So Much Better?
This is no April Fool's Day joke! Nearly four times more employees "exceed expectations" in Best-in-Class companies (the top 20%) than Laggard companies (the bottom 30 percent.) And more than 7 times the hiring managers are satisfied with new hires after one year in...
Personality Tests “Useless”: Is this really true?
“Personality tests are useless at predicting future job performance,” if you believe self-confessed personality test hater Bob Corlett. Mr Corlett by the way is founding member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the HR Examiner. He feels personality testing is “just...
