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Why Interviews Aren’t Fair….but Pre-Employment Tests Are
“Our attorney told us that pre employment tests are illegal to use.” If that is your logic and defense for sticking with the interview and resume as your primary screening tools for employee selection, it is time to get with the program. The job relatedness of...
5 No-No’s When Designing Performance Review Forms
Human resources and management spend an awful lot of time designing performance review forms. That’s good news because despite the negative attitude of many managers toward completing the annual employee appraisal, it does show the good intentions of management to...
Management and Leadership Competencies That Will Make or Break Your Business
Management. Leadership. Two simple words, two complex concepts. In today's hyper-competitive business environment in which profits are scarce and companies are forced to do more with less, financial success (if not mere survival) depends on hiring the right people...
Why DISC Profile Doesn’t Work For Employee Screening
Why DISC Profile Doesn't Work For Employee Screening There are several reasons why a DISC assessment test doesn’t work for your employee screening process. Before I dive into those reasons, let me first address a few of the reasons why so many employers do select DISC...
8 Ways to Overhaul Your Employees’ Annual Performance Reviews
The dreaded annual performance review. This has to rank near the top of the list of necessary evils for managers and supervisors. The reasons are obvious: who looks forward to having to assess how someone is performing and providing him or her feedback? Many...
How Safe Are Personality Tests for Screening Candidates?
Despite evidence to the contrary, many human resource professionals and hiring managers continue to discount the reliability and predictability of psychometric and cognitive pre-employment testing. Just a few days I gave a presentation to 50 HR professionals at a...
Google Returns 60 million+ Results for “Interview Questions Guide”
Creating an effective employer interview question guide is a necessity for hiring qualified workers. But a simple search for the phrase “interview question guide” turns up 60,200,200 Google results in only 0.14 seconds. With such an ample supply of free advice, why...
4-Point Checklist to Improve Annual Performance Reviews
For years, the annual performance review has been an exhausting and unpleasant exercise in futility. Managers and employees alike have long dreaded the annual performance review, and many studies have shown it to be largely ineffective. They typically involve lots of...
A Fine Line: 5 Top Performer Sales Personality Traits
Not all salespeople are successful. Given the same experience and education, why do some salespeople succeed where others fail? Is it motivation? Product knowledge? Evidence suggests that key personality traits directly influence a top performers' selling style and...
Millennial Mindset: 18+ Things That Millennials Find Normal
No matter how much I try, I’m amazed each August when the Beloit College Mindset List is released. And this year’s list for the Class of 2015 is no exception. The list has been compiled since 1998 by Beloit’s former Public Affairs Director Ron Nief and Keefer...