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Avoid 3 Common Mistakes When Using PreEmployment Tests
Hiring managers, seeking the special ingredients in what makes a top-performing employee tick, are turning to preemployment tests more and more. But like a promising recipes, the proof is in the pudding. Many employees don’t work out even if they “pass” a...
Job Extinction – Some Jobs Lost for Good
The Iceman cometh….and the Iceman went away. More than 25 percent, or over 2 million, of the jobs that were erased from the economy over the past two years are probably gone for good. Going back to the beginning of the 20th century, we’ve seen dozens of occupations...
Nine Personality Traits That Shape Innovation
What if innovation could be predicted by identifying personality traits before you hire you next employee? Thomas Edison, possibly America’s Greatest Inventor, was once described as having “an inexhaustible resource and fertility of ideas when it came to practical...
Union National Banks on SPS for Hiring The Right Employees
When a landmark Lancaster County bank decided to create a branch unique to its market, it called on Success Performance Solutions to help select employees who could deliver an above-average outcome. Dr. Ira S. Wolfe, founder and president of SPS, met with leaders of...
Employee Screening vs.Testing
Employee testing is a growing phenomenon. Some companies use testing as a way to select candidates in; others use it screen candidates out. Others use it for training, development or succession planning. For a whole host of reasons, pre-employment has become the...
Are They Really Ready to Work?
The future U.S. workforce is here. The alarm bells are ringing: our future workers are woefully ill-prepared for the demands of today’s (and tomorrow’s) workplace. That is the ominous message from the recently released landmark survey of over 430 employers sponsored...
Why Traditional Job Interviews Are Unreliable
Why do people hired by the same methods, doing the same job, and managed by the same person perform so differently? Dependency on traditional interviews is a prime reason. 1. Traditional interviews are historically and scientifically poor predictors of success on the...
Halo Effect: It Can Have Devastating Consequences
When President Bush looked toward his embattled director of FEMA and announced to the world "Brownie, You're doing a heck of job", he epitomized one of the most frequent and damaging problems in corporate America today - the halo effect. Not unlike thousands of...
Resu-mess Solved by Automated Applicant Tracking and Processing
For individuals in search of a new job career, it is as easy as Copy, Paste, and Submit. The economy is improving and more and more candidates are applying for jobs on the Internet. But just like the neighbor attending an open house just to get a peek how the people...
Slow Economy not time to skimp
Higher stress creates greater need for team building By Christina Olenchek, staff writer In late June, the employees of a Mechanicsburg technology firm used items such as rubber duckies, eight-track tapes and candy canes to build a greater sense of teamwork. Several...
