Using Personality Assessments for Successful Hiring in Seven Job Families

It is a well known fact - people are suited to certain jobs and not others! Recall any experiences in your past with sarcastic waitresses or the overly aggressive doorman? Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to screen out people with the wrong personality for the job? Ah! - a world filled [...]

Can you train yourself to be a (better) creative thinker?

Yes! Everyone can be more creative - so says Roger von Oech, author of a great little book called “A Whack on the Side of the Head - How You Can Be More Creative”.
Apparently the brain comes in two halves (or hemispheres) (see the wonderful video by Jill Bolte explaining this at http://blog.ted.com/2008/03/jill_bolte_tayl.php).
The left [...]

Hiring Talent in a Down Economy – Let the Buyer Beware!

Now, more than ever, it is vital for recruiters for find and hire the right talent. With many companies downsizing due to the poor economy it can be a “buyers market” for talent - but let the buyer beware - you may be investing in another companies’ B or C list players!
So as a recruiter [...]

Employee Learning Portals - Leveraging Technology for Employee Communication and Training

In these tough economic times what keeps managers awake at night? The obvious answer is customer retention or cost reduction - less obvious, however, may be maintaining a motivated, skilled workforce!
Motivated, skilled employees maybe your “last best hope” of getting your organization safely to the other side of the recession. After all, motivated, skilled [...]

Career Development as a Marketing Challenge

Careers are not what they used to be! Some professions (e.g. medicine, law, and military) still offer a fairly consistent career structure through which people progress over their lifetimes. For most of us, however, the old (and reliable?) career structures are evaporating or are already gone.
This is not such a problem for “Millenials” (born [...]

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