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How Much Is Employee Turnover Costing Your Company?
A conservative estimate of the cost of turnover for hourly employees is 25 percent of their annual salary. A search for studies about costs associated with hiring and employee turnover places the actual expense closer to 50 percent for hourly employees—and many times...
Integrity Tests Reduce Hiring Risk, Lower Workmen’s Comp
Interest in pre-employment integrity testing is exploding. Curiosity about its effectiveness prompted a writer for HR Magazine (log in required to view article) to call me for an interview. While I wasn’t personally mentioned in the article, my company Success...
10 Reasons Hiring Managers Fear Pre-Employment Tests
UPDATED August 6, 2019Despite strong evidence and research to the contrary, many HR professionals and hiring managers still resist using pre-employment tests during the hiring process. Based on over nearly 25 years of conversations, I came up with 10...
Documenting Employee Performance: 4 Reasons Why You Must Do It
Effectively documenting employee performance. It is sometime boring. It is sometime time-consuming. But it is ALWAYS Important. But rather than focus exclusively on "how to document performance,” let’s consider why documenting employee performance is so important in...
3 Biggest 360 Degree Evaluation Mistakes – and What to Do about Them
While multi-rater feedback has its distinct advantages, it also can be a disaster if not planned and implemented carefully. The most common mistake managers make is believing that multi-rater feedback is a replacement for the annual review. That's wrong, wrong, wrong....
5 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Documenting Employee Performance
Getting managers to complete employee performance appraisals is one of the most nerve-wracking things human resource professionals have to do. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. An even bigger headache is getting managers to actually document performance and...
360 Degree Feedback: Better Than The Annual Performance Review?
Ask any manager what he or she just hates to do and very likely you'll hear "performance reviews." The traditional once-a-year performance review (if employees are lucky to get that), are not only dreaded but ineffective too. Studies consistently show that nearly...
Interview Questions to Avoid When Screening Job Applicants
When interviewing job applicants, you want to find the most qualified person for the position. But there are limits to what questions you're allowed to ask. Federal (EEO, ADA, for example) and state laws prohibit you from posing interview questions that explicitly...
What is the difference between DISC and other personality tests?
Without exaggeration I hear clients, prospects, and even consultants lump DISC and personality tests together every day when discussing pre employment tests. In some respects that is like comparing apples to oranges, peaches to bananas and so on. In other words, there...
Answers to the Most Common Questions About Pre-Employment Tests
Wouldn't it be nice to give a single test to job candidates that could instantly gauge the lack of reliability, honesty, aptitude, and social skills? What would it look like? What questions would it ask? These are just a few of the questions I am commonly asked....
