No Yahoo Severance for Scott Thompson: Filing – US Business News – CNBC.
New Jersey Staffing Firm Operator Pleads Guilty – but I bet he offered his clients some really low rates!
May 2nd, 2012“Lunch with Harry” Rescheduled for May 11th
April 27th, 2012Due to the death of a friend of Harry Franzheim, we have postponed the webinar that was to be held on Friday April 27th. It has been rescheduled for Friday May 11th.
Great opportunity for an HR person with strong recruiting experience – great career move!
April 24th, 2012Survey: Hiring Solid in 2012. Good news if you can find the needles in the haystack of the unemployed!
March 28th, 2012“Using Assessments to Improve Performance and Measureable Bottom-Line Business Results”
March 19th, 2012
The movie Money Ball is about “predictive analytics” or finding the truly meaningful data-sets that can yield greater returns than using the “normal system”. For HR the normal system is much like a “crap-shoot” in terms of hiring, promoting, managing conflict, and employee development.
Or worse, as many companies that do use assessments are using the wrong assessment or are generating meaningless data that leads to the wrong decisions. This can lead to legal problems and/or employee relations nightmares. It can also result in an existing talent pool outdated and ill prepared for the future.
Human Resource professionals need to be aware to the technology that is available to take the guess work out of the work force planning and development process. There are many low cost and highly effective assessments available. In this session we will share our results with two systems – JobBehaviors and the Prove-it System.
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Why Use Screening Tools?
March 4th, 2012On March 1, 2012 we posted 3 new jobs on the job boards. In two days we had 291 applicants attempt to complete our qualifying process. 83 applicants were able to manage the “on-line” application process and made it through the JOBehaviors Assessment (www.JOBehaviors.com). But only 45 applicants passed the JOBehaviors Assessment. Leaving us with a much smaller pool of candidates to consider. Those 45 will recieve invitations to come to our office for another assessment and an interview. Of those 45, we anticipate that, 10 of them won’t pass the next assessment and another 10 won’t pass the interview process. That will leave us with 25 “viable” canadidates for us to place with our clients. However, once the offer is made we will also drug test, e-verify, and background check the candidates. We expect 5 to drop from that process. And voila – we have 20 that we can send to our clients! Our stick rates are getting better – of those 20, 15 will likely “go full time” with our clients.
Why use screening tools? We only have to deal with 10% of the applicant pool. The other 90% are not bad people, they are just not right for our clients. But these tools quickly allow us to spend our time in the interview process where we can do OUR best work for our clients.
Are you using screening tools? Or are you talking to all 291 applicants?
“Conflict – The Fuel for Building High Performance Teams!”
February 17th, 2012
Most people (even the so called experts) will tell you that conflict in the work place is detrimental “Nothing can destroy productivity, derail projects, and damage your reputation faster than workplace conflict”.
This is a common misunderstanding! In fact, Conflict can be one of the best tools managers and organizations can use to develop High Performing Teams.
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