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Too Many Applicants, Too Little Time?
Some organizations are just lucky … they have a huge, Niagara-like, flow of applicants knocking at their front door. They hire teams of people to scan paper resumes. But any experienced recruiter knows...
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The New College-grad Test Is Better Than GPA, But Proceed With Caution
As long as I have been in business, hiring managers have been trying to pin a magic number on job candidates in the hope it will indicate future job performance. Sometimes that number is a GPA,...
View ArticleLike it or Not, You Use Tests (Part 1 of 2)
Two comedians are talking… “Do you test applicants?” “We don’t use tests.” “Oh. You hire everyone who applies?” “No … just the ones who pass interviews.” “You know, interviews are tests.” “We don’t use...
View ArticleLike it or Not, You Are Testing Applicants (Part 2 of 2)
In Part 1, I explained that job skills walk around on two feet; past achievements are less important than the skills used to accomplish them; employers rent two-legged skills to do specific jobs; and...
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8 Questions to Measure Your Behavioral Interviewing Competence
If you think Behavioral Event Interviews consist only of questions, think again. Highly structured interviews have a long history of accurately predicting success. In some studies they are rated on a...
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Lessons from Great Coaches and Other Myths
Every so often someone publishes an article about lessons learned from great coaches, offering advice about how to select people. Sorry, this is useless nonsense.
View ArticleThe Black Hearts and White Knights of Pre-Employment Testing
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. — Abraham Lincoln Honest Abe must have known about hiring tests. You...
View ArticleWhat Not to Ask In an Interview
You have read all about what to ask in an interview as well as magic questions that will solve all your hiring problems. What about what not to do? Make no mistake. An interview is not an opportunity...
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The Big Data HR Fad
Nothing excites organizations like another fad. The latest one happens to be a thing called “Big Data.” Big Data refers to collecting so many performance numbers that understanding them becomes...
View ArticleThe Problem With Personality Tests
It seems counterintuitive. Some people claim that personality has everything to do with job performance. Others know that every piece of serious research shows personality scores have almost nothing to...
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