U.S. Workforce: Why Is Everyone So Miserable And What Can We Do About It?
If you are employed but unhappy with your job you may have heard these words when grumbling about your work week to a friend, “At least you have a job.” If you’re a manager do you feel your employees...
View ArticleThe Catch-22 That’s Destroying the Hiring Process!
On the surface hiring should be simple. An organization advertises a job, a group of qualified applicants apply for the job and from that pool the recruiter/hiring manager selects the best person for...
View Article5 Real Life Instances When Video Interviewing Saved the Day
Most of the positive social chatter about video interviewing comes from the video interviewing vendors while most of the negative chatter comes from those who don’t want to change their hiring process....
View ArticleWill An Increase in Jobs Make Finding Talent More Difficult?
Careerbuilder’s Midyear U.S. Jobs forecast shows that employers will hire more full time, part-time and contract workers in the remaining six months of this year as compared to 2013. Sounds like good...
View ArticleHiring Managers, Wake Up and Hire Your Candidates Already!
Last week my blog post implied that an increase of available jobs would make finding talent more difficult for hiring managers, but would also spur them into making a hiring decision more quickly. In...
View ArticleThe Annual NILG Conference Discusses Video Interviewing & The Disabled
Hire-Intelligence, in coordination with Synchronized Resources Inc., will present “Access, Accommodations & Video Interviewing” on August 5th in Washington D.C. at the National Industry Liaison...
View ArticleHire-Intelligence To Address Video Interviewing At Annual American...
The first ever research conducted to determine the validity of web-based video job interviewing will be presented on August 10th in Washington D.C. at the 2014 Annual APA convention. Titled, “Exploring...
View ArticleCorporate Greed Stifles the Economy and Fuels A Coming Storm
I stumbled onto a startling statistic recently by the Economic Policy Institute in regards to the CEO to worker compensation ratio. According to their report the CEO to worker pay ratio in 1965 was...
View ArticleThe Battle For Transgender Rights One Restroom At A Time.
As an attendee and presenter at the 2014 American Psychological Association conference held in Washington, D.C. in mid-August, I was struck by the presence of several “gender neutral ” restrooms....
View ArticleVideo Interviewing & The Disabled: Do You Need An Accommodation?
Last month I had the opportunity to sit on a panel with three lovely women at the National ILG conference in Washington D.C. to talk about video interviewing and the disabled. Our session “Access,...
View ArticleAre Older Workers Holding on to Jobs Hurting Younger Workers Looking for Jobs?
As a provider of job candidate assessment software we are very focused on turnover. We hate costly employee turnover, which studies have shown is mostly caused by poor job fit. So we work hard to...
View ArticleCan A Hiring Tool Eliminate Discrimination?
Recently I received an email from a job candidate with this question, “How does your product (video interviewing) eliminate age discrimination in the hiring process?” As HR professionals we all know...
View ArticleInfographic: Challenges of Today’s Hiring Process
With so many available applicants per every open position, how companies are having trouble filling open roles might seem bewildering. The infographic below shows the obstacles plaguing both job...
View ArticleWith the Distribution of Income Growth Out Of Whack Can Employee Satisfaction...
Assistant Professor of Economics at Bard College and Levy Institute Research Associate Pavlina R. Tcherneva recently published the following chart, which has gotten a lot of notice by the press. It...
View ArticleSuccess, It Ain’t All About Talent Baby!
Can a man who is 6’2” run a company more effectively than a man who is only 5’8”? Does a physically fit man or even one with a deep voice command more respect and thereby have more ability to be …...
View Article5 Reasons Why Your Recruiters Should Do The Hiring
Two years ago, Flight Centre, an Australian airfare company, began to allow their recruiters rather than their hiring managers, hire the job applicants. Instead of presenting a small pool of qualified...
View ArticleSurvey Says Hiring Process Suffers From Huge Disconnects Between Job...
Careerbuilder released a survey recently of 374 HR professionals and 319 job candidates asking them how technology degrades the hiring process. Here are a few problems reported. Disconnect #1:...
View ArticleWhat Matters Most To Your Team, Talent or Personality?
The argument continues over whether employers should hire for cultural fit or for skills. Many say skills because hiring for cultural fit inevitably gives way to discrimination. Others say hire for...
View ArticleFour Problems With Amazon’s Arduous Quest for Purple Squirrels
“I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon. According to this recent article from Business Insider, Amazon has a...
View ArticleIs the Automated Interview Fraught With Perils?
Last month I read an article on the Huffington Post titled The Perils of the Automated Online Interview. The author, a Harvard student, criticized automated online video interviewing after performing...
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