Posted by Greg Moran on Tue, Aug 31, 2010
New webinar announced today -
Candidate Selection Redefined: Better Hires Through Predictive, Online Reference Checking
Overview:
What is the single best predictor of success for a new hire? Technical skills, cultural fit, personality, experience? Could it be all of the above? Most likely, it is a combination of these attributes.
You really need to measure effectively
in all these areas to get the best hires. Sure, assessment tools can tell you about the personality fit, interviewing may give you a good sense of the cultural and skills fit, and the resume can tell you about their experience. But no one hiring tool can tell you more than colleagues who have worked with the candidate before.
That’s why reference checking, when done properly, is so important. It can actually tell you how candidates measure on all of these predictors … and more. The problem is getting a reference to provide any information beyond the basic verifications of salary, title and dates of employment.
No longer. Predictive, online reference checking has changed the rules.
Join Greg Moran, Founder and CEO of Chequed.com and author of Hire, Fire & The Walking Dead (W Business Books, 2006) for this 45-minute webinar. In it we will show you how to redefine candidate selection through predictive, online reference checking (or reference assessment).
Register Now
Topics to be covered:
- Why the phone based reference checking process doesn’t work … and never will again
- What is predictive, online reference checking and how does it vary from the traditional, phone based model
- How the science of predictive reference checking works
- Why predictive, online reference checking is faster, easier, cheaper and more legally secure than traditional reference checking
- How to forecast the ROI of predictive, online reference checking for your organization
- What a predictive, online reference checking tool looks like in action.
Who Should Attend:
1.) HR Executives & Professionals
2.) Sales and Operational Executives with an interest in consistently selecting top talent
Register Now
Posted by Greg Moran on Wed, Aug 18, 2010
Happy to announce the launch of our new eBook today.
Download our complimentary new eBook titled Reference Checking Isn't a Waste of Time ... You're Just Doing it Wrong to learn ...
- The real reason many references refuse to provide information (hint: it’s not corporate policy)
- How to consistently get 80%+ of references to complete with minimal staff time and effort
- A scientifically proven way to gather accurate, reliable, valid and predictive information from each reference provider
- How to reduce legal exposure and liability in your hiring process
Click the eBook graphic above to download.
Posted by Greg Moran on Wed, Jul 21, 2010
We just posted a new edition of the HR Thought Leadership Series. This edition is with Peter Cappelli. From his new Harvard Business 
Review article, Peter discusses:
- Why having a strong corporate mission and responsibility matters to the bottom line
- How "Employees First, Customers Second" may be the path to success
- The difference between Transformational and Transactional Leadership and why it matters.
Head over to the HR Thought Leadership area to hear the interview.
Posted by Greg Moran on Mon, Jul 12, 2010
Here is a link to the formal release.
Here is the gist ... Chequed.com announced today the formal release of our new HR Thought Leader Interview Series. These are a series of interviews with the world's best thinkers on HR, recruiting, employee screening, workforce development, performance management, etc. The interviews are released in either podcast or video (depending on the specific guest). The interviews are strategic in nature and focused on ideas that you can put to work today. The first interview with Dave Ulrich is available immediately.
Click here to subscribe to the feed.
Posted by Greg Moran on Mon, Jul 05, 2010
Last week's "Reference Checking Isn't a Waste of Time ... You're 
Just Doing It Wrong" is now available online.
Great turnout for the live version. If you missed it, here is your chance to watch it online.
The recorded version is only about 20 minutes (we edited a bit to make it easier for online viewing). Q&A available for download as well. Go here to view.
Posted by Greg Moran on Fri, Jun 25, 2010
If you didn't register for "Reference Checking Is Not a Waste of Time ... You're Just Doing It Wrong", then you missed it. Great attendance and great questions. If you attended, thanks for being there!
Either way, check back here next week (or better yet Subscribe in the box to the right to be notified) and get a link to the on-demand video of the presentation and all the questions answered that we didnt get to.
Posted by Greg Moran on Mon, Jun 21, 2010
Recently Greg Moran, Chequed.com CEO did a quick interview with Chief Science Officer Dr. Kevin Williams on current assessment tools and how Chequed.com's candidate selection platform (personality testing and automated reference checking) is different. Apologies for the video quality (dark, fuzzy, zoom problems, the works) but the content is spot on.
Posted by Greg Moran on Thu, May 13, 2010
HR technology vendors have developed amazing tools, but they require significant investment and, without careful planning and implementation, can be fraught with peril for your company.
Click here to read our new article, Five Reasons HR Investments Fail to learn about the key areas where things can go wrong—so you can avoid problems before they crop up.
Posted by Greg Moran on Mon, Mar 08, 2010
The conventional wisdom in HR is that reference checking doesn’t work, that it’s next to impossible to get a call-back—much less get past a reference’s legal concerns.
But automated reference checking (ARC) works. It combines what we have learned from research in psychology with advances in online assessment technology.
It brings the reference check back to life in a form that provides much better candidate data—and provides it much more easily than the old phone-based model.
Let’s look at the three primary reasons ARC works better than antiquated reference checking practices.
Read the full article here ...