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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...
Employment Testing: What’s Next?
Despite persistent slow hiring by businesses, spending on employment testing rose about 20 percent in the US last year to between 1.5 and $2 billion annually (Workforce.com). One reason for the increase might be that organizations using assessments report on average...
Pre-Employment Tests Drive Business Results in 4 Key Areas
If your company is like most businesses, your operations, marketing, and sales efforts could be improved. That is where personality and other pre-employment testing come in. Improvement and high performance requires employees who can increase revenues, reduce costs,...
3 Reasons Why Employee Competency Models Fail
Big corporations have been talking seriously about employee competencies for at least the past two decades. Today even the smallest of small businesses have joined the discussion. Many organizations are dedicating time and resources into identifying essential...
