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Debunking 7 Common Myths about Pre Employment Tests
The proliferation of personality tests on the Internet and an increased desire by companies to hire the right employee the first time is driving up the utilization rate of pre employment assessment tests by small business. Popularity often breeds myths and pre...
Unacceptable Questions for Interviews and Employment Applications
Hiring managers sometimes ask the “darndest questions” during candidate interviews. Unfortunately many of these interview questions often put the employer at significant risk for discrimination claims by rejected or disgruntled candidates. The basic rule in...
3 Steps To Improve The Annual Performance Review
Can you feel it? It’s performance review season! Managers are buzzing about performance reviews. Unfortunately the anticipation isn’t necessarily positive. Let's be honest. The review meeting has become little more than a ritual. If it wasn't for HR's mandate that...
Effective Leadership Begins With Self Assessment
He looked like a leader. He acted like a leader. He was promoted to be the leader. The company failed. Leadership cannot be assigned. Wanna-be leaders are often thrust into leadership roles because they took charge of projects or teams in the past and got results. Or...
Annual Performance Reviews: Why Isn’t Management Doing Better?
Despite the prevalence of annual performance reviews at major companies and small businesses alike, many management teams are still unsure as to how to effectively leverage an employee’s review to produce positive – and ideally, productive – results. As a result the...
Customer Service Pre-Employment Tests Gain Importance
Customer service is not for everyone as it requires a positive customer service attitude, excellent work habits, general reasoning skills, and good self control. To assess whether or not an employment candidate is a good fit to deliver excellent customer service,...
How To Tell When a CEO (or Job Candidate) Is Lying
There’s an old joke that asks: “How can you tell when a lawyer is lying?” Answer: His lips are moving. Well, apparently the same can be said for detecting the lies of CEOs…and job candidates. Two professors David Larcker and Anastasia Zakolyukina at Stanford Graduate...
Reduce Small Business Fraud with Pre Employment Tests
It was summertime in 1971 when the pop single, Smiling Faces Sometimes, hit the airwaves. Coming into popularity after the 60s, a decade of social turmoil and distrust, the lyrics resonated to listeners. Smiling faces sometimes pretend to be your friend, Smiling...
Ten Reasons Why Performance Reviews Fail
Ask any manager what he hates most about his or her job and you'll likely hear “performance reviews”. For many reasons, these periodic employee evaluations have been done poorly if at all in the past. What follows is a list of the 10 most important reasons why...
How to Avoid HR Problems with Social Media Background Checks
Social media is becoming a great way for recruiters to announce job openings and find qualified candidates. The social media revolution has unleashed a torrent of new employer tools to obtain information about applicants. For example, the Internet puts at an...
