Five Steps for Effective Behavioral Interviewing
Interviewing is generally just one job of dozens you need to tackle as a manager. It’s something you have to do only when a position has been vacated or a new position is created, only once you’ve been through a stack of resumes, and only after you and your top few picks have played phone […]
Spring Cleaning and The Omnia Position Description Form
Like many people, I have a love/hate relationship with spring cleaning. On the one hand, it needs to happen. Truth be told, it needs to happen more than once a year; I tend to stuff things in various places and then forget where, to the chagrin of my ultra-organized husband. On the other hand, spring […]
A Ten-Step Employee Selection Process: Don’t Leave Hiring to Chance
Welcome to March! It seems like a great time to talk about luck. You know, because of St. Patrick’s Day. And who doesn’t love St. Patrick’s Day? Some cities dye entire rivers green just for fun. Not to mention the parades (well, maybe not this year), green beer, leprechauns, shamrocks, and pots of gold at […]
Five Steps to Building a Sales Talent Pipeline
Not everyone loves hiring. Does anyone love hiring? Does anyone like hiring? Some parts of it can be fun: the excitement of bringing in new people and new ideas, imagining the possibilities, the hilarious typos on the resumes. But it can be a slog. Especially right now, many job postings will lead to a flood […]
Top 5 Reasons to Rehire a Previous Employee
In the current times, you may have had to furlough or lay off employees. Now that you’re able to hire again, you’re considering a rehire. You find yourself weighing the pros and cons of bringing previous employees back to your team. Will this decision be a good move, or is it better to start again? […]
How to Have Effective Remote Interviews
As more and more organizations shift to using a remote workforce, the traditional in-person interview is also shifting into a virtual context. Remote interviews may not seem like they’re all that different from a physical interview. Still, they introduce many factors that can make them more difficult to manage if a company doesn’t put a […]
Best Practices for Conducting Employee Assessments Remotely
As more employers shift to a remote workforce, managers look for ways to manage their teams more effectively. Whether a company is hiring new employees or transitioning workers into a remote context, having easy-to-interpret, actionable data about behavioral tendencies and cognitive traits provides leaders with an invaluable resource for developing a remote management strategy. When […]
Should You Use Social Media Screening in Your Hiring Process?
With an estimated 2.65 billion people using social media worldwide in 2018, the odds are good that anyone applying for a position at your organization has at least one social media profile. In fact, they probably have more than one, since the average person today has over eight accounts, more than double the average number […]
How Pre-Employment Testing Expedites Your Hiring Process
Filling an open position is often a much more complicated process than organizations expect. Even if the hiring manager has a good description of the job, its responsibilities, and a picture of what an ideal candidate would look like, they must still sort through applicants and find the candidates who seem best suited for the […]
The 7 Soft Skills You Need to Be Successful
You may be a computer whiz, a scientific genius, or a master of mathematical theories. However, to be successful, you need more than just expertise in your given specialty. In fact, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employees (NACE), when participating employers were asked to name the attributes they seek in candidates, they […]
