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Better Sales Talent through Behavioral Science

In early 2011, Asurea Insurance Services, Inc., a leading insurance marketing organization with more than 16,000 agents, turned to Chequed.com to help improve their hiring practices by using Predictive Talent Selection™ technology. The results were shared on May 23rd via a live webinar with guest speaker Chris Reid Director of Agency Management at Asurea Insurance [...]

Chequed.com Appoints J. William Tincup to Board of Directors

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (May 15, 2012) – Chequed.com, Inc., an online pre-employment testing and reference checking provider, today announced the appointment of J. William Tincup to its Board of Directors. Tincup is the CEO of the human resources consultancy company Tincup & Co. “Within the Human Resources Technology industry, I can think of no one [...]

Penelope Trunk

Is HR really the dumping ground for scared people who will never be a winner? The always intriguing and controversial Penelope Trunk is the latest Chequed.com HR Thought Leader. Penelope is a best selling Author, mega popular blogger and columnist whose career advice runs in 200 publications. In the interview, Trunk shares insights about the [...]

I Accidentally Interviewed at the Wrong Company… And Still Got Hired

Candidates know how to play the hiring game. Is your screening process really thorough enough to catch them? Think again. A few summers ago when I was back in college, I was looking for a summer internship. I had a few different interviews and was asked the same questions at all of them. “Why do [...]

40 Funny Resume Mistakes

We’ve all seen examples of some pretty bad resumes, ranging from typos to bad jokes. Here’s a list of the 40 (well, actually 42) funniest mistakes we found while browsing the web: “Objective: To become Overlord of the Galaxy!” “I have a lifetime’s worth of technical expertise (I wasn’t born – my mother simply chose [...]

Announcing Our Student Video Competition!

About the Contest: We are challenging students throughout the US to illustrate the ways in which Chequed.com helps companies improve the quality of their new hires through the use of ChequedFit™ and ChequedReference™. Submissions should be fun, professional, and informative. Get creative and show us what you can do! Submit your video via YouTube for your [...]

Evolve Your Hiring Process

Let’s face it. Those traditional methods you have of hiring just aren’t cutting it anymore. Sure, your candidate seemed ideal on paper and they nailed the interview but once they were hired, the quality of work failed to meet the high expectations you had of them. “Where could I possibly have gone wrong?” you ask [...]

On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog

Today, many hiring managers find themselves at a disconnect between how a prospective employee’s references say the candidate will perform, and how the candidate actually performs once they are hired. As a result, some managers believe that reference checking is simply a waste of time – costly, tedious, frustrating, and when the day is said [...]

Improving Your Employee Selection Process

Realizing that your newest hiring decision may have been a mistake can be nerve-wrecking. It can be both damaging to a company’s reputation and its resources, as well as damaging to your own credibility. Some turnover costs can be as high as 150% of the employees’ salary, not to mention the time it can take [...]