10 Great Interview Questions to Identify Candidates’ Soft Skills
An employee’s soft skills can make or break their job performance, especially in leadership positions. Technical or “hard” skills are certainly important, but having good soft skills—those personal characteristics like agreeableness, empathy, the ability to influence and listen, likeability, and the ability to resolve conflict—will determine whether an employee can enlist the necessary cooperation and […]
Six Ways Cognitive Assessments Add Value to the Hiring Process
If you have First off, what are cognitive assessments? Simply put, a cognitive assessment test measures an individual’s ability to think critically. By focusing on crucial mental processes, these tests can evaluate the subject’s ability to reason, solve problems, comprehend ideas, and learn quickly. They are distinct from behavioral assessment tests, which are also an […]
What is Personality or Pre-Employment Testing?
Hiring a new employee is one of the biggest challenges organizations face regularly. According to research by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it takes an average of 42 days to fill an open position at the sizable cost of $4,129 per hire. With the average turnover rate around 19 percent, developing strategies that […]
How to Deliver a Painless 90-Day Employee Performance Evaluation
[lmt-post-modified-info] 90-Day Employee Performance Evaluations: 9 Tips for Making Them (Relatively) Pain-Free Imagine that you’ve just landed a new job. You’re thrilled, excited, and ready to dive in headfirst. But as you walk through the door on your first day, you’re greeted with confusion, chaos, and a whole lot of unanswered questions. Suddenly, what you […]
Your New Employee Lied on His Resume: Now What?
There’s no way to hire right without putting in the time, effort, and money. The task often requires coordination (anyone who’s ever arranged a panel interview knows this only too well!), organization, and perseverance. Although many job seekers secure positions through the hidden job market, highly qualified candidates don’t just fall out of the sky. […]
Conducting Pre-Employment Phone Screens that Pay Off
You have a list of candidates that made it past your resume screening process. Eager to make that next great hire, you’re excited about the possibilities in front of you. Now what? Do you immediately schedule them for an in-person interview? Or do you conduct a phone interview first? If phone screens are not in […]
How Employee Cognitive Assessments Boost Hiring Success
What would happen if you introduced an employee cognitive assessment to your workforce? It might raise a few eyebrows. However, if you do it correctly, your workers might embrace it for pre-employment testing. What an Employee Cognitive Assessment Measures The candidates look great on paper. You’re trying to test their soft skills by hosting an […]
How Behavioral Assessments Reduce Employee Turnover
Employee turnover drains time, money, and morale — but behavioral assessments can help. By uncovering personality traits, work styles, and cultural alignment, behavioral assessments empower companies to make better hiring decisions, reduce employee turnover, and build stronger, more engaged teams that thrive long-term. Bye-Bye, Turnover! How Behavioral Assessments Reduce Employee Turnover Employee turnover can be […]
There, Their, They’re: Now Omnia Can Help Soothe Your Grammar Woes
Remember the old days when people could only interact with businesses over the phone or in-person, and most mailings were stuffy form letters? After booting up Word Perfect for DOS, you would painstakingly type your message and then drive the floppy disk over to your neighborhood print shop. That was a lot of work! Thank […]
