One did it with a new acquisition. MindX, a game-based assessments company based in London, has been acquired by HireVue, best known as one of the oldest video interviewing solutions. The announcement was made last week. “The MindX game-based assessments are…
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Candidate Experience vs. Candidate Quality? Have Your Cake and Eat it Too
When it comes to hiring in 2018, candidate experience is driving the bus. Failure to provide a good candidate experience can spell disaster for your hiring process and your brand. If you want proof, check out this cool little widget…
Whiteboard Tests Can Improve Your Hiring Results in Many Jobs
Improve Candidate Assessment by Adding Problem-Focused Whiteboard Tests Let’s look at the data. The current state of hiring and candidate assessment is problematic because research shows that 46 percent of new hires fail in their first 18 months on the…
Not Hiring Exceptional Candidates Is Extremely Damaging but It’s Preventable
Note: This article is part of a continuing series covering high-impact business practices that recruiting should be doing, but it doesn’t! Losing Exceptional Candidates Is Damaging Your Firm Learning specifically why exceptional candidates were not hired can be added to…
When Hiring for Attitude — Catch ‘Attitude Fraud’ Because Candidates Fake It
“Attitude fraud” — when candidates with an undesirable attitude purposely deceive and act as if they have a great one to get hired. Even though it is a major problem, few in recruiting make any attempt to detect or avoid…
How Sales ‘Hunters’ Stalk Their Prey
You buckle into your business-class window seat, primed for a five-hour mental vacation. And then this guy settles in next to you. His wife practices family law, specializing in custody issues; their 11-year-old’s a little ADHD, but made the travel…
When to Consider a Sales Talent Assessment Test … And When You’re Wiser to Avoid It
Properly applied, a quality sales assessment test can be a powerful workforce decision support tool. Used haphazardly, it may result in more harm than good. Here’s our thinking based on many years in the sales psychometrics field. You want to…
So Their Résumés Rock — Are They Also Good Fits?
When Barnes & Noble announced it was parting ways with CEO Rob Boire, he’d been on the job for less than a year. The company spent millions of dollars to settle claims, after declaring Boire “wasn’t a good fit.” If…
The Top 5 Dumb Things That Hiring Managers Do That Hurt Their Recruiting Results
The talent management practice with the highest business impact, by far, is recruiting. But, a significant part of that impact will be reduced if your hiring managers do dumb things. Yes, hiring managers are the No. 1 contributing factor to…
3 Soft Skills You Need to Be Able to Spot In Candidates
After weeks of interviewing job candidates, you’ve narrowed your search down to your top two candidates. They both have stellar resumes, the right amount of experience, and nailed each round of interviews. Aside from their different personalities, they’re neck-in-neck in…
Hire 360° People — Because They Add Situational Awareness and a Strategic Perspective
If you are a manager who operates in a complex environment where problems seem to come at you from all sides, you can dramatically improve your business results by hiring “360-degree people.” If you aren’t familiar with this type of…
Our ‘Get Home’ Recruitment Game
We talked about how 2016 needed to be a big year for SAP’s employment brand. The key for us was, as a b2b, standing out from the crowd. We revealed how our weekly cartoon series, “Life at SAP” Illustrated, has done…
We’re Exploring Whether Technology Can Provide a Better Candidate Experience
We revealed how we launched our new EVP in 2016. The message: Bring Everything You Are. Become Everything You Want. To help us know “everything you are” and ensure you “become everything you want,” we needed a supporting vehicle. One…
Unilever Wants to Shorten Hiring From 4 Months to 2 Weeks
As Unilever looks to buy both Seventh Generation and Honest and move into newer, hipper, healthier consumer options, it’s also making changes to its hiring process. There are basically four parts of the new procedure (outlined in a video I’m embedding…
Are Your Candidates Gritty?
The Rio Olympics are history. Every four years, I find myself once again marveling at the Olympic athletes and their dedication to excellence. What drives these individuals to work tirelessly toward a goal that can be years away? Are they…
A Contrarian Perspective on Hiring for ‘Fit’
Many industries today are accelerating their focus on innovation to capture opportunities in ever-changing markets. CHROs and recruitment leaders are being tasked, as recently noted in a Deloitte study on innovation in the fast moving consumer goods, to “figure out…
4 Steps to Start Recognizing Someone’s Emotional Intelligence
Ever wonder why the smartest person on your team is not necessarily the best team player? Have you been trying to put your finger on what makes your manager such a good leader? The answers could be related to your…
What Makes a Top Sales Performer? 4 Insights From Analyzing 1,000 Top Sales Performers
It’s well-known that top performers disproportionately contribute to company revenue – up to four times more compared to the average. When it comes to sales recruitment, it’s a puzzle we’re all trying to solve: What do top sales performers look…
Beards and Bare Legs
The days of conservative navy interview suits with a clean shave or slicked back ponytail and pearls are slowly becoming obsolete outside of Wall Street. In a world where a beard and a very hip shirt and no tie is…
A Little-known Fortune 100 Company Is Trying to Become a ‘Talent Factory’
A not-well-known company that’s nonetheless one of the U.S.’s largest, operating in 160 countries with about $47 billion in revenue, is trying to “transform the organization into a talent factory,” according to the talent-acquisition leader. Ingram Micro is a electronics/IT distributor with…