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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 [...]

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The Death of Corporate Recruiting Sites?

Dr. John Sullivan wrote a great blog post on ERE today suggesting that the corporate career site is dead. Basically his premise is that, as the use of social media in recruiting continues to accelerate, the purpose for the career site of today really diminishes. Take a minute and read his post. Here was my response [...]

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Employee Screening for Demons in High Achievers????

Interesting podcast at Harvard Business Review today discussing the potential pitfalls with high achievers. Clearly, when we hire, we are always looking for those people who have exhibited the behaviors that we deem successful. Hiring someone with a clear pattern of success and achievement would always be a positive right? Maybe say Dr. Tom DeLong at Harvard. [...]

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Use Reference Checking for Candidate Sourcing

Do you use reference checking (at least in part) for candidate sourcing and pipeline building? Many of the top companies do, but, there are some pretty passionate dissenting voices as well. We would love to hear your opinion. Join the conversation going on over at LinkedIn.

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The CIO and the HR/employee screening department

Great post today by Jason Averbook at Knowledge Infusion on the complexity of the relationship between HR and the technology department. If you are an HR executive that has faced this maze before, take a read here. Here were our comments … Great post Jason. I think the questions you posed are important ones as there does [...]

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Social media clout as part of employee screening?

Great blog post today by Steve Boese exploring the question of whether one day (soon?) we will begin measuring a candidate’s online presence and influence as a component about the individual. It’s an interesting thought as more and more of employee screening is moving online and public domain tools are begin used for this purpose. I [...]

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A funny reason to reference check on a Friday afternoon

Here is a great Friday afternoon video clip. Those of you who are fans of Seinfeld may remember when George was going to be a latex salesman. This is the reason for real reference checking at its best … http://youtu.be/_T35QhLx_KI (We can’t embed it unfortunately so follow the link.)

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Employee Screening in a Candidate-Heavy Market

Today, we continue looking at the steps you can take to make hiring and employee selection easier when the resumes are coming in fast and furious…  Here’s the previous post: Step #1: Define your Target. Step #2: Attract That Ideal Candidate Your company has a lot to offer the ideal candidate. Make sure she knows [...]

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Employee Selection in a Candidate-Heavy Market – Step # 1

Unemployment is still stubbornly high, but you already know that doesn’t really make recruiters’ jobs any easier. In today’s blog posting, we’ll look at the first step to minimizing unnecessary effort and maximizing the quality of your hires when you’re dealing with a large candidate pool. Stay tuned for steps 2 to 5 in the [...]

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Chequed.com Launches ChequedTV

Looking for more quick and valuable content on all things recruitment, selection, pre-employment testing and online reference checking? Wander over to ChequedTV for a series of 5-10 minute videos on topics more relevant to you as an HR professional and hiring manager. You’ll quickly discover a few things about Chequed.com … 1.) We really are bad videographers, [...]

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