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Is Your Process Set Up to Hire the Lazy, Misinformed & Unproductive?

If You Don’t Hire the Right Candidate Now, You’ll Hate Yourself Later

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May 22nd, 2013 by in Blog

The hiring process is an odious one. From sorting through dozens of unqualified applicant resumes to interviewing a friend’s son who came “highly-recommended”; it’s enough to make any hiring manager or human resource professional’s head spin! It also means that the potential for hiring a bad fit is more likely.  No one hires a bad [...]


ChequedFit™ Overview

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May 21st, 2013 by in Blog

Ever Wonder What ChequedFit™ is All About? Join Greg Moran, CEO and Founder of Chequed.com, as he discusses the basics of ChequedFit™ If you’d like to learn more, please contact us here


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There’s no “I” in “HR Department”

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May 15th, 2013 by in Blog

Being a job seeker in today’s economy is challenging. According to Glassdoor.com, the average duration of the interview process at major companies has roughly doubled since 2010. This is due to more applicants for each position, as well as uncertain economic conditions for many companies. But a lengthy hiring process also takes a toll on [...]


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What Does ‘Predictability’ Really Mean?

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May 10th, 2013 by in Blog

How utilizing incremental predictability can give you psychic-like abilities in making the right hiring decisions  As familiar as today’s generations are with a reference to the infamous Miss Cleo, this era of entrepreneurs and start-ups is also no stranger to the concept of predictability. In fact, most of today’s CEOs can likely identify a somewhat [...]


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3 Blogs Every Hiring Manager Should Follow

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May 1st, 2013 by in Blog

One of the most dynamic features about the internet is that it provides a limitless resource of knowledge and facts. Prospective candidates can fully prepare themselves for an interview with thousands of websites, forums, and blogs before sitting down with a hiring manager. While this is wonderful news for any potential interviewee, what about useful [...]


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Sales Manager or Serial Killer? How to Better Predict Who You’re Really Hiring

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April 24th, 2013 by in Blog

Hiring is a tricky ordeal. We cast out a wide net through job positing sites, social media, and our friends’ friends hoping that among the plethora of applicant responses we get back there will be at least one top performer to choose. Unfortunately, there are a lot of problems with the haphazard hiring approach that [...]


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Gamification in Hiring: Reduce Employment Roulette

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April 18th, 2013 by in Blog

How gamification in hiring makes the process more engaging for applicants and leaves employers with less of a gamble When done right, hiring a new employee is like winning the lottery. Not much effort goes into it, yet you receive an extremely valuable reward. Unfortunately, the chances of you winning the lottery are pretty slim. [...]


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The Buzz About Video: Chequed.com Reviews Take the Interview

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April 10th, 2013 by in Blog

Human Resource departments everywhere now have another reason to praise technology- the video interview- not to be confused with unsolicited video resumes. Technology has had a hand in making our lives easier and the goal of video interviewing companies, including Take the Interview, is to streamline the hiring process by sending out pre-recorded video interviews [...]


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Selling Health: Finding the Best Talent and Personality in Medical Sales

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April 3rd, 2013 by in Blog

Medical sales is both a highly competitive and difficult market for candidates to get into and stay in. However, it is also a challenging field for hiring managers whose responsibility is to navigate through a sea of potential talent. It takes just the right combination of aptitude, experience, and personality to hire a medical sales [...]


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Reference Checks vs. Background Checks: They’re Not the Same Thing!

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March 27th, 2013 by in Blog

Any hiring manager who has ever conducted an interview process has dealt with either a reference or background check – most likely both. But aside from being a standard part of conventional hiring wisdom, do you really know what these procedures are actually looking for? While they’re both checking out something, they’re functionality is derived [...]