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A Blueprint for Fitting the Right Applicant to the Right Job Fit
Program analyzes positions, candidates to establish expectations by Tracey McGraw Ira Wolfe has created what he calls a blueprint for matching the right people to the right jobs. He calls his creation CriteriaOne™. It is a job-analysis process, said the president of...
Personality Tests Differentiate Average from Great Performers
Shhh! Let's listen to a conversation between Glenn, Michelle and Bob during their weekly sales meeting. Glenn, the sales manager, is struggling with weak sales and what he feels is a sales force lacking ……… Glenn: We are barely holding our own. Sales are flat. We are...
Dentists Not Smiling Over Dental Assistant Shortage
Broader career Opportunities keep Job openings open By SANDY ECKERT Contributing Writer Thirteen ads in a recent edition of a local newspaper asked dental assistants and hygienists to apply for jobs. The openings offer evidence of a nationwide shortage that has also...
When Managers Chase Away Workers
Today's manager is really the conductor of his own orchestra. Like an orchestra, no matter how good you are, you sometimes need to stop and re-sync. Were the violins too loud? Could you hear the flutes? How did the composer mean for the music to be played? Top...
Labor Union Experts Say Money Is No Longer An Issue
Lancaster Sunday News by Gail Rippey September 2, 2001 Today's labor unions are no longer your father's image of collective bargaining. "The purpose of unions today is not the same as when they started, to protect workers from the sweatshops," said Ira Wolfe, owner of...
Job Analysis and Pre Employment Tests Fuel Growth
My-oh-my, how things have changed. The market is now running on empty, supplies are tight, prices are up, and consumption is increasing. I'm not talking about gas, oil and electricity. I'm talking about employees - qualified and skilled employees to be specific....
Firms testing their employees’ personality traits
BUSINESS MONDAY, February 5, 2001 By Susan Lindt Intelligencer Journal Staff It's a matter of dollars and cents. Make that dollars and sensibilities. Personality profiling, the latest buzz term to hit local businesses, might just turn a strife-torn workplace into a...
PERFECT LABOR ‘STORM’ IS COMING
Economic tempest brews with too few skilled workers, unfilled jobs, stranded employers. Sunday News November 26, 2000 By Gail Rippey and Judy A. Strausbaugh Sunday News Staff Writers A Lancaster County Restaurateur has turned to Central America in an effort to fill...
A Pressing Need to Know More Information Now
Local Business applies new technology to find out what's really on workers' and employers' minds. Sunday News November 5, 2000 By Judy A. Strausbaugh, Business Editor In this information Age people expect to find answers to questions in the time it takes to press a...
