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6 Tips To Save Time Doing Annual Performance Reviews
Time is money. It is also true that time can save money. An example? Taking the time necessary to prepare for and conduct annual performance reviews can save your organization both time and money. Annual performance reviews, also called performance evaluations or...
6 Great Interview Questions
Seth Godin posted a excellent post earlier this week. There's not much to add so I'm just posting it as is: What good interview questions are actually trying to discover: How long are you willing to keep pushing on a good project until you give up? How hard is it to...
When DISC Meets Social Networking
A recent Hubspot post asked "if your marketing strategy had a personality type, what would it be?" The article discussed how Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) might be used in developing a good inbound marketing strategy, addressing each of these personality types....
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...
