Recruitment Is About Being The Hunter, Not The Hunted Over the past years I have give dozens of seminars and speeches on the selection process. It doesn't matter if I am in Invercargill, Auckland, Napier, Sydney, or Singapore, I always hear the same complaint: "Rob our area is different, there is a great shortage of talent here, we just can't find good people".Yes, we do have record employment figures, but let me shake you up a bit - there...... Similar Editorial : by Larry Chamberlain. | Source : Employee Performance
Your Personality - Lay 50% Of The Blame On Your Parents During my selection seminars I spend time giving attendees a brief 101 on what science tells us about personality. Inevitably two questions always arise. Firstly, is personality stable and can it be changed? And, are we born with our personalities, or does our environment shape us as we grow?Personality is stable after the age of about 18 years. Personal Psychologists have found that there is...... Similar Editorial : by Jeff Earlywine. | Source : Bipolar Ii Symptoms
How To Manage People Who Waste Your Time At Work? One of the challenges facing you in today's workplace is the constant stream of distractions that happen on an on-going basis every single day. At the end of the work day, you often wonder why you have not completed that task or written that document which needs to be ready by first thing the next day.You get frustrated and you blame the entire system for not making it work for you. Know this:...... Similar Editorial : by ayoung4@excite.com. | Source : Employees Right
Hire Happiness - Its The Key To A Productive Workforce In his book, "Hiring Now", Steve Lauer explains the prerequisite for hiring the right person first time starts from within - it's about happiness. I'd never given this much though and it does sound a bit "airy fairy", but when you look at successful organisations with low turnover, he is bang-on. The most powerful and basic of all elements necessary to attract and keep people is...... Similar Editorial : by Dr. David Thomas. | Source : Employees Right
The Hiring Interview Is Not A Conversation Many times in past articles and seminars I have stressed the poor validity of the unstructured interview in the selection process. Yet the unstructured interview is still the most common selection tool.Apart from being poor predictors of work performance, interviews are also the most underrated expense item of the selection process.Because no 'hard money' changes hands, managers see the interview...... Similar Editorial : by Stuart Reid. | Source : Employee Benefit Plans
Zero Telerance For Poor Performance Last week I was in Singapore delivering an address at the annual symposium for the Contact Centre Association of Singapore. Singapore is an impressive country. It's the size of lake Taupo with the same population base as New Zealand. Many people refer to this city as the Switzerland of the East. This is an apt analogy as the city is so efficient and the financial hub of Asia. What really struck...... Similar Editorial : by Hifzur Rehman. | Source : Employee Benefits Broker
The Top 10 Problems With Traditional Hiring - How Do You Rate? Hiring new employees is tough. Most managers have no structured process. The following outlines the top ten problem areas we see companies make when selecting new employees.1. A failure to define the performance factors (competencies) required for the job. How can you identify the right person for the job if you haven't a clear outline of the performance factors required for the job? Call it a...... Similar Editorial : by Joe Lau. | Source : Employee Training And
7 Ways To Stop Hiring Turkeys How many times have you walked into a supermarket or retail store recently and been confronted by a person who just screams, "I don't want to be here today'? Where do they get these people from? Why did management not see during the selection process they were about to hire an absolute turkey? Reason, because during the hiring interview the candidate is presenting him or her self better than...... Similar Editorial : by Ari Galper. | Source : Employee Training And
How To Hire People With Attitude Jim's not working out, he's got a bad attitude". "We are looking for people with a can-do attitude". These are common statements I hear, or read regularly from managers about to hire new staff or address performance issues with the current team. Just what is attitude and can you identify it before you hire it? Let's start with a simple definition - Attitudes are predispositions to respond in a...... Similar Editorial : by Cheryl Perlitz. | Source : Employee Training And
Competency Modelling Here at AssessSystems I receive calls daily from 'newbies' to employee profiling. These people usually open the conversation with, "we'd like to test a candidate." When I start to probe it becomes obvious the hiring manager has no selection system and really no idea of the competencies required to be successful in the job - did I say competencies? Many organisations today are using...... Source : Employee Training And
Landing The Target Job With 385,000 American workers in the call center industry, competition is intense for the most desirable positions. If you are fortunate enough to be called in for an interview for one of these posts, how can you prepare yourself so that you stand out from the crowd?Hopefully you did some preliminary research of the company when you sent in your resume. Before your interview you will want to visit...... Similar Editorial : by Martin Haworth. | Source : Interview Questions And Answer
Using Bloggers For Pushing Products: A Good Idea? There is an interesting conversation in the blogosphere. The discussion centers on using bloggers to push products and getting compensated in return. Should bloggers accept monetary payment or any form of remuneration for writing about certain products, services or events on their blogs?Issues and ViewsNow that blogging is spreading like wildfire, drawing large crowds of audience, business...... Similar Editorial : by Jennifer Tribe. | Source : Podcast Maker
Having A Midlife Career Change To Nursing Midlife career changes are nothing new. If you're looking for a field with abundant opportunity and if you enjoy caring for others, nursing might be right for you. The job outlook is robust: The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports employment among registered nurses will grow faster than the average for all occupations through 2008. Some reports indicate that more than 1 million new and replacement...... Similar Editorial : by Marilyn J. Tellez, M.A.. | Source : Nursing Career
Commission Hijacker Hidden Inside Your Web Page Design! As a person almost obsessed with Web site marketing, I am often at odds with my Web site designer friends as to what is important. They know that I love them and I mean no offense so all is good.For all Web masters especially those who count on commissions selling other people's products, some Web design flaws could really hurt. The following are some common and some not so common flaws that can...... Similar Editorial : by Bob Bishop. | Source : World Wide Web Links
What Is Spam? How To Identify And Block It? Almost everyone who used to communicate via e-mail has ever found in the Inbox the messages from people he doesn't know proposing some services or products. All unsolicited and undesired messages you receive are SPAM. The emails of this kind usually offer pharmaceutical products, diet methods, sexual enhancements aid, and "get rich quick" plans. You can also meet bogus sales pitches, sales...... Similar Editorial : by Linda Cox. | Source : University Of Chicago Computer Science
