Picture yourself smiling and shaking the hand of a new employee on their first day of work. You’re excited because, well, you hired them. This person might be a completely new hire or someone who moved to your team from within the company. Either way, you feel pretty good about them. After all,...
Artificial Intelligence is now wrapping its tentacles around every job field, threatening to squeeze the life out with its mechanical dominance. While some are taking advantage of AI, there is still a large group who are hesitant to place their trust in it.
As children, we blossomed among team settings. When a teacher grouped us into teams, we were excited to conquer the task at hand with our fellow classmates. We gave our very best to earn our place on a sports team, and our teammates often became our best friends. We even took the liberties of...
Thanks to better access to education globally, there are a great many skilled candidates hunting for jobs. At first glance, this is great —there are many qualified people who will likely satisfy your employee needs. However, this abundance of talent poses another problem. With so much choice,...
The forward-focused management approach of 360-degree feedback is indeed powerful. Smart organizations are adopting this approach to allow their employees to have a more objective view of their personal development.
Are employee personality and workplace safety really related in any way? They definitely are –and it’s crucial for organizations to understand the correlation between these variables.
Have you heard the ever-popular story of an old man who asks his sons to break sticks, first individually and then in a bundle? We bet you have! It’s such an amazing story teaching us that ‘unity is strength’. Now, if we see it from the business perspective, it applies ever so...
Let’s get straight to the point―which qualities do you search for during employee selection? Skill and experience are the first things that come to mind. You might even consider education and certifications. However, can these things guarantee productivity and higher performance? Probably not!...
Here are the TOP 20 QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR EMPLOYEE ASSESSMENT VENDOR or anyone who might be selling Human Resource Solutions. It’s important to know if they will be a good partner to work with or just full of hot air, cute bells and cool whistles.
In many organizations, personnel costs are among the largest budget line items, and given the top challenges facing CEO’s, organizations need their leaders, managers, and people aligned and working together at the highest levels of performance.
You can have recruitment without talent acquisition, but you cannot have talent acquisition without recruitment. Recruitment (at least the definition) is simple: finding talent to fill open positions. Talent acquisition, however, is a much bigger animal. Talent acquisition takes into account...
Over my 26 year career in the employee assessment industry, I’ve tried to present the complex world of psychometric assessments in a simple, human, smart approach to make HR Life Easier™. Often times, businesses are trying to determine which assessment would be best for their particular need....
In today’s economy, nearly every organization faces pressure to reduce waste and run at peak efficiency. For many, this means making difficult personnel decisions to eliminate positions that don’t add sufficient value to the organization and either eliminating or re-deploying people in those...
Lean how the latest innovations in the area of adaptive assessments offer increased accuracy, are more enjoyable for the participant, provide improved information for management, and yield higher returns for the organizations.
Sitting in a classroom one day, surrounded by safety committee members from numerous local companies, a fellow classmate adamantly proclaimed "people are flawed" when asked to describe why a particularly unfortunate individual ignored safety rules and lost his life in a wood chipper. I’ve...
Many people in the United States spend more time working than doing anything else. Workspaces turn into second homes and project teams become work families. Every workplace has a unique mission and company culture, but they all can relate to a common goal: to be a great place to work.
It’s called succession planning: the process for identifying and developing the people within an organization, with the potential to fill key business and leadership positions in the future. When implemented incisively, succession planning should be a natural progression. Discover the how PXT...
Pre-hire assessments make gathering data easy. In fact, utilizing these tools can have a huge payoff for the entire organization. The Aberdeen Group states that pre-hire assessments can have a major impact on cost to- and time per- hire, hiring manager satisfaction, employee retention,...
