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Fine-tune hiring with pre-hire assessments

HR Management

The science and art of hiring, retaining and properly matching people to positions and positions to organizational needs and culture is mission-critical. Every business wants to hire quality people. Understanding factors beyond proficiencies can make a crucial difference in hiring success.

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I did pre-hire assessments: What’s next?

HR Management

And, these can now be “behaviorally smart,” using questions based on the outcomes of the pre-hire assessments you’ve completed. So, with the cost of a bad hire reckoned by some in the recruitment industry to be in the region of $240,000 per employee including salary, onboarding and training, getting the interview process right is crucial.

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Why German HR tech firm Aconso is entering the US market

HR Brew

Jaenicke started Aconso with colleagues from the technology conglomerate Siemens in 2001, when much of the HR profession was still reliant on paper documents. Its software focuses on the entirety of the employee life cycle, creating and managing HR documents that cover events spanning from hiring and onboarding to departures.

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Employers Have Very Optimistic Hiring Plans for Q1 of 2018

HR Daily Advisor

The most recent edition of ManpowerGroup’s quarterly “Employment Outlook Survey” indicates that the first quarter of 2018 will be very strong in terms of staffing, reporting “the strongest hiring intentions in 10 years” according to a survey press release. The survey was conducted among over 11,500 U.S.

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Summer is here … let’s just keep working?

Business Management Daily

“A month ago, we would have predicted another summer of massive teen hiring,” said Andrew Challenger, senior VP of employment firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The summer of 2019 saw 1,737,000 jobs gained by teens, 25% more than in 2018 and the most teen jobs gained since 2001. This year: crickets.

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When Do You Know It’s Time for a New Hiring Strategy?

6Q

If you’ve failed to adapt your recruitment strategy to match the current environment, then it may be time to devise a new hiring strategy. And it’s not just managerial positions where mistakes over who to hire are being made. Its research suggests that less than one in five hires will be a definite success (19%). Here’s how.

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How Resume & Employment Verification Protects Employers

Cisive

The CEO of Bausch & Lomb from 2001-2008 faked an MBA from a business school he didn’t graduate from. Kane earned a six-figure salary for six years as chief executive of the trust, which collapsed after leaving five schools with disastrous exam results and millions of pounds in the red.