No company gets anywhere without its employees. They’re workhorses; pillars of your company community; excellent sources for a bad joke or smidge of water cooler gossip. But that’s not all. As influencer marketing exits its infancy and saturates the promotional sector, more and more companies are starting to realize that employees can advocate for your brand. How does this work, exactly? … Read More
Measuring What Matters: Recruitment Tools that Sort Through the Noise
The Human Resources department lies at the heart of any organization. And if it doesn’t, it should. Today’s HR pros are responsible for a multitude of key functions beyond hiring and firing: strategic planning; payroll, pension and benefits administration; employee communications; training and development; and so much more. HR should be the hub of the business, the oil that keeps … Read More
Fact Or Fiction? When It Comes To Resumes, Don’t Believe Everything You Read
There’s an old adage which says “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” When it comes to resume fraud, applicants have been fooling hiring managers for years. Knowing this, any HR professional who still relies primarily on sifting through a stack of resumes as the first-level sort should be feeling some shame. The statistics are shocking; studies … Read More
Searching for a new job? What Glassdoor.com really tells you about a company
The internet has opened up a whole new world for job searchers. Not only can anyone search, find and apply for a job online, they can also research companies that are hiring. Location, lines of business, size of the company – even names and photos of key employees are all readily available online, but today’s job searcher wants more. The … Read More
Life-changing events are just that: life-changing. To the core.
Note: This post originally appeared on MaestroQuality.com Reintegrating back into work isn’t easy after a long-term absence or critical illness, for anyone – the returning employee, their co-workers, or the manager. Life goes on, or so they say, while the person is away. Work carries on, challenges are met, goals change, and the team sort of ‘re-forms’, either figuring out … Read More
Hiring a Pharmacist? Here’s Your Ideal Candidate According to Behavioral Science
This is another blog in a series about “ideal candidates“. We take a position, run it through TalentSorter’s scientific algorithm, and provide you with the behavioral characteristics of an “ideal candidate” (note: download the full report at the bottom of the post). Because of the way TalentSorter has been designed, it is able to compare the personality traits and other … Read More
Hiring a Sales Representative? Here’s Your Ideal Candidate According to Behavioral Science
We take a position, run it through TalentSorter’s scientific ‘job fit’ algorithm, and provide you with the behavioral characteristics of an “ideal candidate” for the role of Sales Representative. The unique software design behind TalentSorter™ gives it the capability to compare the personality traits and other attributes of your job applicants to those who are high performers in this role. … Read More
Why You Should Treat Every Job Candidate as a C-Suite Candidate
Resumes are still one of the most commonly used tools by HR departments to screen candidates for an entry- or mid-level position. However, this is practice is outdated and inefficient. More often than not, what’s written on a resume cannot accurately portray an individual’s knowledge and capabilities in a working environment. Perhaps that’s why recruiters never rely on a resume … Read More
HR Technology Q & A – Part 2
Mason Stevenson, Editor for the HR Exchange Network, asks our own Jan van der Hoop about HR Tech, HR Digitial Transformation, AI, VR, and other emerging HR technologies in the workplace in part one of their interview. Check out part two of their interview below, and click here for part one. https://youtu.be/dniQy6tA55s Transcription: Mason: So let’s start with what you … Read More
HR Technology Q & A – Part 1
Mason Stevenson, Editor for the HR Exchange Network, asks our own Jan van der Hoop about HR Tech, HR Digitial Transformation, AI, VR, and other emerging HR technologies in the workplace in part one of two of their interview. https://youtu.be/2GrGj-Jzb-s Transcript: Mason: Okay. Let’s go ahead and kick it off here. First question, can you talk about the HR digital … Read More