Hire the best! Put people with the right skills in the right jobs! Reduce turnover by increasing job satisfaction! Reduce hiring mistakes using one best … Read more
Hiring the Best: Step One — First Contact
The underlying theme of each of my ERE articles is the need to collectively consider all aspects of the hiring process when implementing changes. Everyone … Read more
The Incredible Cost of a Bad Hire: Part Two
In Part One, I outlined how an “average” standard deviation in worker productivity can amount to huge dollar costs for a company. In many cases … Read more
The Incredible Cost of a Bad Hire
Recruiting costs are like the weather… everyone talks about them, but no one does anything. Well, you can do something about recruiting costs ? if … Read more
First-Day-On-The-Job Employee Orientation Questionnaire
In Part One of this series, we outlined some important concepts that managers should consider implementing in order to create a top notch employee … Read more
A Manager’s Guide to Orientation
The first week on the job can play a crucial role in motivating and retaining new employees. We often spend lots of time and money recruiting and wooing … Read more
Online Screening: Inside Scientific Screening
Part One in this series of three articles provided some basic information about the benefits of using online screening to quickly and efficiently evaluate … Read more
Online Screening of Job Applicants: A Better Tool
Continuing to use the resume as the primary source of information for matching people with jobs is like hammering away at a square peg that has been shoved … Read more
Why The Four-Question Interview Still Works Best
In this age of intensive digital searching and testing, some people find it hard to believe that something as simple as a four-question interview to … Read more
They Just Don’t Get It: Part 2
In Part 1, we discussed the relative strengths and weaknesses of techie tests. In this part we’ll examine the personality test vendors and the … Read more