Tips For Hiring

This is a Podcast – Duration 6 minutes 30 An article in this morning’s ODT made my blood boil. Headlined, ‘Govt Quiet on Chief Executives’, asks the question as to why the Government has not given us an explanation, or a reason why these two highly ranked employees are no longer employed? Was it simply […] The post The Demise of Key Government Executives – What’s the Real Reason? appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 6 Minutes Most sales candidates are very good at selling themselves at the interview, but the big question is, will they be good at selling your products or services when they are on the job? Some Sales Managers falsely believe all successful salespeople come with a similar set of personality […] The post Not all Successful Sales People Come from the Same Mould appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 10 Minutes in Duration Many managers hire candidates who are not an ideal fit; they want to meet their objectives of filling vacant positions with the best candidates they can find – usually the best of a bad bunch. It would be unrealistic to wait until the perfect fit was […] The post How to Use Benchmarks to Avoid Hiring a Horror Story appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast –   18 minutes.  Sorry, no show transcript this week. I am always on the lookout for interesting info and tips to help you in your hiring process. Last week I read an interesting article from Dr Daniel Lake – Director of LeadCoachRelease. So rather than my dulcite tones, I have invited […] The post How to Hire and Manage Millennials appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 6.30 Minutes I was addressing the Auckland Rotary Club when it came to the Q&A a member asked if I could ask just one interview question, what would that be? I quickly replied that I hope I am never in that position. However, I must say, this question did give […] The post Three Great Interview Questions appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 7 minutes duration When it comes to hiring new talent, there are two areas in the hiring process that I see recruiters failing to address on a regular basis. Many recruiters understand these two sins but have made it their policy not to address them, to keep the status quo. […] The post Two Sins Commonly Committed When Hiring New Talent appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 12 minutes duration Are you still hiring like its 1999? It used to be when someone mentioned HR Recruitment; you envisioned a roomful of people interviewing, hiring and exiting people. Times have changed and with it the functions and processes of today’s recruiters. As such, businesses are actively introducing and […] The post Recruitment Technology Trends for 2018 appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast –  10 minutes duration  About to hire a new employee? How will you assess their suitability for the job? After over 15 years of personal observations, most hiring managers go into the hiring process without any framework of assessment. For those of you who are guilty of hiring by the ‘seat […] The post Understanding Job Competencies appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast –  8 Minutes Duration. Problem-solving and general learning ability have a long history of research dating back to the American Military in World War 1. General mental ability tests were developed to identify the suitability of recruits for officer training.  A proliferation of research over the last 100 years has validated […] The post Will Your Next Hire Be As Thick As A Brick? appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 8 Minutes duration The use of video interviewing has become a standard practice for many organizations, allowing them to automate their recruiting process. On-demand video interviewing is another method of evaluation that is used by many recruiters. On-demand video interviewing is known by several alternative names such as, one-way and pre-recorded. […] The post On-Demand Video Interviewing appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 9 Minutes Many of you would be aware of the Dr Murray fiasco. He was CEO of the Waikato District Health Board and ran up large unapproved expenses. Past behaviour reflects future behaviour, so my burning question to the Board of Directors, “Did you talk to the Chairperson of his […] The post The Importance of Doing Due Diligence Before Hiring – Reference Checking appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 9.5 Minutes Why do employees – hired by the same methods, doing the same job, and managed by the same person – perform so differently? Dependency on the traditional one-on-one unstructured interview is a prime reason. Besides being the most expensive tool (management time) in the selection process, the unstructured […] The post Why Are Traditional Hiring Interviews So Unreliable? appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast (7 Minutes). A transcript is available HERE  Candidate communication is what I want to get on my high horse about. It is not only my daughter’s recent experience, but bad candidate communication is one of the pet peeves of job seekers everywhere. Apart from it being just bad manners, it surely […] The post Bad Candidate Communication When Hiring is Bad for Business appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 8.30 Minutes There are many myths surrounding cognitive ability testing – often referred to as a mental ability tests. What do these tests measure? In short, intelligence. According to Spearman (2005), intelligence is something that helps people to solve problems, when the elements can be apprehended by almost anyone. Most […] The post Mental Ability Testing – 5 Common Myths Debunked appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 12.30 Minutes (You can download the referred academic paper from the link below)  Here at AssessAdvantage, we are often asked to explain why the Prevue Assessment, that measures General Mental Ability, Interest/Motivation and the Big Five personality traits, is one the best available measures of job fit to identify the […] The post More Scientific Proof of the Benefit of Using Employee Assessments appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 8.45 Minutes Long Hiring new employees is no “walk in the park”. My grandmother taught me to always invest in quality up front to save waste and agony down the line. “Gut feel” hiring, or taking the easy road and relying on third parties to do the job for you […] The post 7 Areas to Cover When Recruiting and Hiring New Employees appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 6.5 minutes When it comes to hiring, most managers only use a CV and an interview to make the big call on who to throw an average of forty-five thousand dollars to! A bad hire cost about 2.5X an employee’s annual salary! CVs and interviews represent around 20{e984e047a0cf0683b5e0a609dc9adff1ef3040909f42c61fefd344cb6b0a14a5} of hiring […] The post About to Hire? The CV and Interview Are Your Poorest Hiring Tools appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 7 Minutes It’s a given, using past performance to predict future performance is the most critical measure in the hiring process. Committing to a new hire is a big deal. Whether you’re hiring hourly employees or corporate leaders, you’ve spent money and man hours to recruit, assess, and interview many (or most) of your […] The post Online Reference Checking – The New Wave in Recruitment appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 5.30 Minutes What sales role today doesn’t require good written communication? Emails alone make up a tremendous amount of sales communication. And then there’s sales proposals. Although many organisations have these on template, most sales roles require their sales people to craft proposals for individual prospects (if only the ‘deal’ […] The post How to Evaluate Written Communication When Hiring Sales Persons appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 7 Minutes Last week, I had two interesting questions from clients, one asked what I thought were the main reasons employees leave a job? Here I address the three pillars of Job Engagement. The other question was what I see are the most common faults Hiring Managers make when recruiting […] The post Why Do Employees Leave? And What Are Common Hiring Faults? appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 6 Minutes Every week I talk to organisations who are struggling with their recruitment process (usually there isn’t one!), trying to avoid hiring their next personal grievance.  Or, others who are trying to manage their way around a couple of non-performers or extremely difficult employees (they originally hired the wrong […] The post Are You Still Flogging a Dead Horse? appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 30 minutes My special show guest today is Vincent Smith, the Director of Strategic Channels at OutMatch.com Vince has spent many years in the recruitment and assessment industries. He is the co-creator of the powerful online tool called ChequedReference™. This is an advanced pre-employment screening tool that automates candidate reference […] The post Online Reference Checking That’s Predictive appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 8 Minutes Here are the four suggested areas that are critical to address when planning to hire a new employee. Obviously the job role will dictate the weight given to each, or whether assessment is need in that area at all. Can they do it? This relates to specific job […] The post About to Hire? Here’s Your 4 Critical Planning Questions appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 8 Minutes   Back in the early 90s two well respected Organisational Psychologist, Drs. David Bartram and Patricia Lindley, set out to construct a new psychometric assessment. They wanted to ensure their new tool would measure the key attributes and abilities that best identified “job-fit”. Obviously, their first question was, […] The post What Are the Most Desirable Attributes of Successful Employees? appeared first on Tips For Hiring.

This is a Podcast – 6 minutes According to the Aberdeen Group, the world’s leading B2B researchers and business data analysts, 2/3rds of the world’s top companies use pre-hiring assessments. But, not all assessment (employment tests, employment profiles) have the same purpose. In this podcast we briefly outline the top three. What they are, what […] The post What Are The Three Main Pre-Hiring Tests? appeared first on Tips For Hiring.