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Don’t Lean on Personality Tests for Hiring

Don’t Lean on Personality Tests for Hiring

by Caroline | Nov 11, 2015 | Assessments, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting

The other night I tuned in to the movie Divergent and was frankly distracted, the entire time, by how much the plot reminded me of how a lot of people hire these days. In Divergent, kids are given a test at 16 which pretty much tells them which post-apocalyptic...
Get Smarter About Hiring Seasonal Workers

Get Smarter About Hiring Seasonal Workers

by Caroline | Nov 4, 2015 | Company Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting, teamwork

Every year around this time, retailers, restaurants and others who are gearing up for holiday traffic start hiring their seasonal workers. Of course they’re not the only ones with seasonal work demand. Tax companies will need folks in a few months and resorts and...

On Trust and Chickens

by Caroline | Oct 14, 2015 | Assessments, Company Culture, Management, Non profit HR, rewards, teamwork

Last week I heard a TED talk by Margaret Heffernan about productivity and chickens. In a study mentioned in the talk, a researcher cultivated several generations of chickens, eventually culling the most productive into one coop and leaving the others in a different...
The Skill That Changes Everything: Learn to Listen

The Skill That Changes Everything: Learn to Listen

by Caroline | Sep 5, 2015 | Company Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting

One thing that candidates often tell me when they’ve been interviewed by a company I work with is: “I know a lot about the company now. But they didn’t ask me anything about myself.” Argh! I know exactly what happened in that interview. The hiring manager and others...
Your Hidden Paycheck May Be Your Best Recruiting Tool

Your Hidden Paycheck May Be Your Best Recruiting Tool

by Caroline | Jul 29, 2015 | Compensation and Benefits, Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting, rewards, Training

We’ve been in a weird phase in employee recruitment and retention the last decade. No matter what size your company, everybody who wants to hire top talent feels like they need to lure people in with margarita machines, giant beanbags and having a masseuse come in...

Paying Respect to The Job Application Form

by Caroline | Jul 15, 2015 | Assessments, Company Culture, Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting

In the passionate pursuit to be authentic and create an awesome culture, people keep wanting to do away with really crucial stuff, like job application forms. They don’t want their first interaction with someone to be filling out a bunch of boxes. They just want to...
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