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...
View ArticleCandidate Completion Rates Don’t Matter!
In human resources and hiring, we all get tied up around the wrong metrics sometimes. Candidate completion rates, especially at the application and pre-employment testing phase is certainly one of...
View ArticleCandidate Sourcing from Reference Checking
Reference checking can be an important component in your recruiting and candidate sourcing process. This ChequedTV episode explains why you should do it and how to do it most effectively. Why Do it?...
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Brad Smart, Author of Topgrading
What percentage of your team are A players? If it’s not 60% or better, you’re in a position to make big improvements in your team’s performance. Brad Smart, who worked with Jack Welch at GE to develop...
View ArticleReference Checking Redefined
You could be forgiven for snickering at that subject line: “Better Hires Through … Reference Checking.” It’s true. Legal worries and caller ID have done a number on the old phone-based method of...
View ArticleScreening for Culture Fit – Chequed.com’s ChequedTV
We all know, when conducting employee screening, how critical culture fit is. But do you know how to really screen and interview effectively for it? Maybe you do, but do you other hiring managers. In...
View ArticleManaging Candidate Expectations – Chequed.com’s ChequedTV
Managing the Candidate Experience in your employee screening process. Setting expectations is the key. Understand the Why Why are you different? Why does the rigorous process aid the candidate? How...
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Why Candidate Completion Rates Don’t Matter in Employee Selection
It’s pretty common for us to hear from hiring managers that a primary concern about implementing an online selection tool is that people will drop out.But if your application process leaves behind 20%...
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Automated, Predictive Reference Checking: Why it Works
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...
View ArticleThink you have reference checking problems? Watch this video
There are dozens of reasons why companies don’t check references—none of them stack up against the tremendous value you get from a good reference check. On top of that just compare it to the fate of...
View ArticleAre Your Job Posts Sexy or Significant?
Generic job descriptions don’t attract top talent. But the trick isn’t just to jazz up your job descriptions, it’s to also make them job-relevant. So stop posting the same job descriptions you’ve had...
View ArticleEmployee 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...
View ArticleEmployee 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...
View ArticleLeverage Your Recruiting Brand with Candidate References
We are in the throes of a global economic transition and recovery. And, while this creates new business opportunities, it also creates new human resource challenges. According to a Bersin by Deloitte...
View ArticleBetter Candidate Screening Equals a Better Recruitment Brand
Build it and they will come. It’s true. Employers that have strong recruitment brands have an easier time of it when it comes to recruiting and hiring. And, there are many ways in which to do it that...
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Are You Ready to Play Ball?
What do the Oakland A’s and the New England Patriots have in common? They’ve each applied Moneyball techniques. Author Michael Lewis, describes in his book, Moneyball, how over a five-year period, the...
View ArticleRule #1 to Destroy a Candidate Relationship
What’s the right amount of information to ask from a candidate? According to this new LinkedIn post by Chequed.com CEO Greg Moran, it depends. But asking too much information prematurely can spoil the...
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Ready For Spring? Spring Into Action…
We are a winter-weary nation. A large part of the country has been slammed with snow and rain and for those who have not – we salute you! We are ready for spring – a time to regroup and get ready for...
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Career Builder Survey Reveals 1 in 5 Employers Have Asked Illegal Interview...
Job seekers are often the ones sweating to ask the right questions, but hiring managers also need to mind their p’s and q’s. In a recent CareerBuilder survey, 20 percent of hiring managers said they...
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When it Comes to Assessments, It’s All About How You Use Them
A recent article in TIME magazine looks at what it’s like to get a job or fill a job in “the age of optimized hiring.” That’s a huge topic, but the article focuses on personality assessments (though it...
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