by Ira Wolfe | Jul 26, 2015 | Recruiting Process, Recruitment
After clicking submit on a job application, more than half of applicants sit and wait like abandoned lovers waiting for the phone to ring. Many companies seem to have adopted the foolish practice of “ghosting” when it comes to dealing with job applicants....
by Ira Wolfe | Jun 30, 2015 | Employment Testing
More and more companies are turning to pre-hire assessments for hiring help. One reason might be that the cost of hiring mistakes has sky-rocketed. Estimates can rise to as much as five times a bad hire’s annual salary, according to Society of Human Resources...
by Ira Wolfe | Apr 1, 2015 | Employment Testing, Hiring Process
This is no April Fool’s Day joke! Nearly four times more employees “exceed expectations” in Best-in-Class companies (the top 20%) than Laggard companies (the bottom 30 percent.) And more than 7 times the hiring managers are satisfied with new hires...
by Ira Wolfe | Oct 16, 2014 | Employee Performance Management
In my last post I pointed out how ignoring your weaknesses was a flaw in the strategy to discover your strengths. Even Gallup admits that its research has been distorted. Let’s now move on to the second reason why relying on strengths alone is a path that may lead to...
by Ira Wolfe | Oct 9, 2014 | Employee Motivation, Employee Performance Management
We have all seen them. We might have even made fun of them. They “hover” over their kids, protecting them from the many horrible harsh realities of life – like losing a baseball game, getting a “C” for average work, or even being disciplined by a teacher or boss for...