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Quality of hire metric: how to measure it
Have you ever asked yourself the following questions: • How good is my new hire? • Did I promote the right person? • Am I good in this new job? If you are a manager or a recruiter, or more...
View ArticleWhy 360s should always include a Growth Mindset
Managers using 360 tools should not forget one critical element for successful implementation: A Growth Mindset.Watch this video of Carol Dweck, Stanford psychology professor, especially 3:07-3:40 if...
View ArticleNeuroscience on feedback and reference checking
I was pleasantly surprised when I read the following excerpt in neuroscientist Daniel Amen’s book titled Magnificent Mind at any Age:“When interviewing people for a job position in your company, it is...
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Reference Checking is hot again!
There was a time when I would speak with people and they would say that reference checking was the best way to screen candidates, but not anymore. Fear of legal action and low compliance from...
View ArticleMessage to Candidates: Cheating Works… Sometimes!
See my latest article on ERE: Message to Candidates: Cheating Works … Sometimes! How many applicants fake test results and assessments?Does cheating work? Is it worthwhile?What can you, the employer,...
View ArticleWhat is the difference between Background and Reference Checks?
A recent article by Les Rosen, explains it well, while also endorsing Checkster’s approach. They are several ways to look at it, the summary of this article: “Internet based references can be utilized...
View ArticleInterview with Recruiter Earth
Listen to the interview here: Interview The post Interview with Recruiter Earth appeared first on .
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Solution to Stretchers, Fakers, and Complete Liars,…
Have you ever asked yourself how many candidates are telling the truth during an interview? Here is the answer from a serious study,* as 17,368 applications were analyzed across many different job...
View ArticleHow Will You Manage?
At Checkster we follow the labor trends closely, one good movie summary done by a vendor: The post How Will You Manage? appeared first on .
View ArticleReference Check 2.0: How Digital Social Networking is Transforming the...
I did recently a radio interview with Peter Clayton on my book Reference Check 2.0. Listen to the full interview here. Best sections: “The interesting thing is that typically when we speak today about...
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Most Productive Companies List 150 – Incorrect Science
You may have seen a recently published list of the most productive companies. If your CEO is pressuring you for not being on it, Checkster offers a way for you to respond. Productivity is the benchmark...
View ArticleCheckster Product Review by Talent Management Analyst and Visionary John Sumser
“Checkster merits your attention. Crowdsourced reference checking will be the way that things get done four or five years from now. Easier, faster better, cheaper, smarter.” “Four years into the...
View ArticleAre you wasting your time with reference checking?
Inertia is the resistance of any physical object to change in its state of motion. We often see this phenomena demonstrated in human behavior when it comes to the traditional reference check process....
View ArticleTop of Mind Thoughts From Recruiting Leaders
Jason Buss the VP of Talent Acquisition at Ameriprise Financial (Fortune 296) wrote recently a posting on what was in the mind of the Fortune 500 talent acquisition leaders. The full posting here. The...
View ArticleHow to know what candidates have done?
Great article from HR Test on how to discover what candidates have done before: To answer this issue, you have several options, including: 1a) Asking them to describe what they’ve done–the so-called...
View ArticleWhat can collective intelligence teach talent management?
The latest research conducted by the MIT center of collective intelligence and published in Science last month is a gem for talent management leaders. In short: team performance depends on the social...
View ArticleCheckster article in HR Executive Magazine
“… the 360-degree review has been an accepted tool… but thanks to technological advances that have made it cheaper and more readily available for new-hire reviews of line workers, such tools may soon...
View ArticleReference Check 2.0 new standard for recruiting assessments
See how Reference Check 2.0 leverages collective intelligence to emerge as a new standard for recruiting assessments in the comments John Younger, CEO of RPO Accolo made here. The post Reference Check...
View ArticleCheckster’s Talent Checkup: Confirm Your Strengths & Weaknesses
Heather Huhman at U.S.News & World Report wrote a piece on tools that are likely to complement if not replace the resume. Checkster made the list as the way to confirm strengths and weaknesses....
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Why Talent Management is R&D most important asset
According to a McKinsey research on research and development drivers of success: “Talent is the most important driver of their productivity and shows the highest level of correlation. Interestingly,...
View ArticleSocial Assessment…
A new term we are using to describe the transformation of reference checking. I will be describing this in more details at Taleo World with Cargill. The presentation, Social Assessment: The New Pathway...
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Quality of Hire Report – Are you Blind?
Quality of hire is the strategic tool for any organizations and certainly for Talent acquisition departments. By focusing on quality of hire, a company can actually work to improve their talent...
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Cool and Creative Resume Formats
The resume is not dead, at least not for some creative people shown in Business Insider, have a look below, pretty interesting! Maybe a good way to better assess candidates, make better talent...
View ArticleFacebook, Personality, Talent Assessment & Job Performance
An interesting new study from the Northern Illinois University’s College of Business, showed that “ 10-minute perusal of Facebook pages were actually a stronger predictor of a candidate’s likelihood to...
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Talent Acquisition External Spending – Too Much in the Wrong Place?
When I saw the chart below, it became clear to me why third party recruiters still have such a share,…. they spend more of their budget on assessing candidates and making sure the quality is there. As...
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What can you learn from Harvard Business School admission process?
After reading an article about Harvard Business School admissions, where about 12% of applicants are accepted, I think all organizations can learn one thing regarding recommendations or reference...
View ArticleWhat Taleo’s Acquisition Says about Innovation
Having been part of the management team of Taleo when it was a start-up and up to its IPO, it is with some emotion that I see a page of history turning.Taleo soon will be part of one of the largest...
View ArticleNelson Staffing on Checkster
An excerpt from an interview of Tony Bartenetti, SVP and Business Leader of the Nelson Family of Companies. Nelson has been in business for over 40 years as a company, doing both temporary contract and...
View ArticleNeuroscience of Love for Better Interviewing
The neuroscience of love is a fascinating subject, summarized in this short video from Scientific American below. You can see why we prefer some people and not others. That is exactly why when you...
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Can a credit score be a valid indicator of future candidate success?
Even though the EEOC disfavors it, a new study found, “Results indicate significant relationships between credit scores and task performance and organizational citizenship behaviors. Using...
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Hiring Process Evolution – How do you compare?
A recent study helps us to understand the evolution of the hiring process and the most important areas of growth, what are the trends? How do you compare? Here is how it looks for the steps in the...
View ArticleCargill on Sourcing and Selection
A 3 min excerpt from an interview of Cheri Hanson, Talent Recruiting Operations Manager at Cargill, a privately held company that employs 142,000 people in 66 countries. Cheri speaks in this excerpt...
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52 Candidate Selection Practices
John Sullivan wrote an interesting list of “Leading-edge Candidate Screening, Interviewing, and Assessment Practices”. Our top 3: Gamification — Assessment or self-assessment using games on the...
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Talent Acquisition Framework – Selection at the center
Bersin recently released its new Talent Acquisition framework. Overall, I agree with the central part on how selection is represented here. Selection is the key strategic function of Talent...
View ArticleCliffs Natural Resources on candidate selection
A 3 min excerpt from an interview of Ken Lane, director of talent acquisition at Cliffs Natural Resources an international mining and natural resources company. A member of the S&P 500 Index, the...
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Perspective is everything!
Often when you consider a candidate for a new job or an employee for a promotion you consider the interaction you had with him or her. If it has been limited and in a specific context (such as one...
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How companies can avoid CEO hiring failure: Reference Checking
A recent article from FORTUNE made a great case for better reference checking: “Some of the best companies in the U.S. have failed, very publicly, to rigorously check references on CEO candidates to...
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Quality of Hire – How to Make Better Talent Decisions
I was recently interviewed by Peter Clayton on theTotal Picture Radio(here), about the topic of quality of hire. Hiring quality is the most strategic metric that you can ever use in talent...
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Real Tricks for Sourcing the Best Candidates
What happens sometimes when you‘re a career recruiter is you become lax in your methods of sourcing the best candidates. This is especially true because of the recent woes with the economy and the glut...
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The Case for Structured Interviews and Why Companies Don’t Use Them
While interviews are an enormously popular selection practice, I am becoming increasingly aware that they are rarely used in a structured or standardized manner in organizations. Van der Zee et al....
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Avoiding the “Usual Suspects” in the Hiring Process
Many industries have something of a merry-go-round operating in their prospective talent pool—the same people will go from company to company, spending a few years in a position at one firm before...
View ArticleDoing Reference Checks After Delivering the Job Offer
An after-job reference check is often misconstrued to be a background check aimed at detecting of past criminal records, drug tests or other personal data verification. It is also not a form of...
View ArticleWhat Does a Reference Check After the Interview Mean?
Many people ask what it means if an employer does a reference check after-interview for a job-seekers, and the simple answer is that it means that they are interested in you. unfortunately, however, it...
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What to Do After Getting a Job Offer After the Reference Check
Getting a job in today’s economy is a tough task, we are in a state where the amount of people looking for a job far exceeds the amount of jobs readily available. As a result companies can be more...
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What Typical Reference Check Questions Should I Be Ready to Answer?
What are a few typical reference check questions that job seekers should prepare to answer before they go in for an interview? Question: On what dates did this person work for your company? Purpose of...
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Executive Reference Check Questions Are More Than a Routine
After the completion of an interview, debates, discussions and agreements on the top candidates follow. It is also the time when subsequent interviews can be arranged in case the need be, more so if...
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The Importance of Reference Checks
If you are applying for a new job, an apartment, or applying for a loan of some kind, the importance of reference checks is much more significant than many applicants might consider. Especially...
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Human Resources Guide to Reference Check Questions
Verifying job or career sources is time-consuming and regularly discouraging, as many companies, despite latest regulation, do not provide more than schedules of career, wage record and job headline....
View ArticleUsing 360 Degree Assessment Questions in Your Workplace
The use of 360 degree assessment questions are a great choice when looking at the entire organization. This type of systematic questioning will look at the employees, employers, subordinates, and...
View ArticleHow To’s: 360 Assessment Tools
For the workplace that wants to take a comprehensive look at employees, managers, and all other staff members, using the right assessment tools, like the 360 assessment tool, is something that should...
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