Have you heard of Stay Interviews? A Stay Interview is the exact opposite of an Exit Interview. A Stay Interview is defined as a regular conversation with your employees so as to maximise the “stay rate" of your employees. In other words, it is to miminise employee attrition rates. So instead of waiting to talk to [...]
In this crazy, fast-paced world we live in today, we want things done fast, cheap and good. It is no different in the recruiting and hiring world. Most HR Professionals and Hiring Managers I have encountered have asked me this question: “How can I determine if the candidate is the right person for me when I [...]
In almost every investment brochure, you will see a disclaimer that says: “Past performance is no guarantee of future results???. However most investors (or so they call themselves) completely ignore this disclaimer. Similarly in the world of hiring and recruiting, most hiring managers ignore the fact that past performance is no guarantee of future performance. Performance-based [...]
Happy New Year! I'm starting off the New Year by taking a huge risk writing this article, because I have many friends and associates who are working as recruitment and executive search specialists. However this article isn’t about them. If you are a HR Professional or a Hiring Manager, this article is for YOU. As HR [...]
Do you know the true cost of a bad hire? Sadly, most of us don’t. If you did a search on Google, you will find all kinds of estimates and suggestions regarding the negative financial impact of bad hires. Some have even suggested that the cost of a bad hire can be up to twenty times [...]
(This article received over 6,709 views and 215 Likes on LinkedIn) Over the years, I've seen the good, the bad and the ugly sides of interviews -- both as a job candidate when I was still slogging it out in the corporate world, and as an Interviewer as a Hiring Manager. I've worked alongside many HR [...]
So far we have covered Culture, Attitude and Aptitude in our previous articles. The final piece of the CAAP® Foundation is PERSONALITY. If you missed the previous articles, read them here: Culture, Attitude, Aptitude So what is Personality and why is it so important? According to Peter Gray, a professor of psychology with the Boston College, [...]
The Guy Who Could Not Learn Many years ago, I hired a guy who had more than 10 years of working experience and all the relevant technical qualifications and certifications. He did well in the interviews but there was one particular area that I completely overlooked -- he worked almost exclusively by himself for most of [...]
In my previous article, I talked about Culture. If you missed it, you can read it here. Today we will examine the next attribute - Attitude. So what is Attitude? Attitude is something that is notoriously difficult to define. It is something that you know it when you see it and it is usually not quantifiable. [...]
Lately, I’ve been seeing some articles calling recruiters and hiring managers to hire for attitude but not for aptitude. Honestly, I have been quite ruffled and disturbed by this strange trend of reasoning. One article had the following statement: “Hire for attitude, not aptitude. Knowledge and skills are certainly important for making a long-term hire, but [...]
