New Year, New Hire, Part 4: How to Weed Out Unqualified Candidates
Our series on how to refine your hiring process and how to find qualified candidates continues. In the previous blog, we identified the top five résumé red flags that hiring managers should know. However, résumé red flags are only one layer of the vetting process — after that, it’s time to sort through the candidate pool and identify […]
From Resistance to Receptivity: Predicting Feedback Resistance
You’re giving feedback during a debrief, and suddenly the leader goes quiet. You can feel the rapport evaporate. This unpredictable shift caught you by surprise, and you wish you could have anticipated it in preparing for the feedback session. Predicting feedback resistance is not impossible, however, with all the Hogan personality data you have at your fingertips. […]
New Year, New Hire, Part 3: Top 5 Résumé Red Flags
Continuing our series on using the start to the new year as an opportunity to refresh your hiring process, we’re tackling one of the pillars of a job application: the résumé. In Part 2, we discussed how the cover letter is a somewhat outdated and irrelevant tool in the HR arsenal, which means that the résumé is […]
New Year, New Hire, Part 2: Are Cover Letters Necessary in 2022?
In Part 1 of our series about refining your hiring process in 2022, we discussed the importance of a good employer brand for candidate attraction. However, that’s only the first step — once you attract that talent, the pressure is on to identify the top candidates from the applicant pool. In order to accomplish this, hiring managers often […]
New Year, New Hire, Part 1: How Defining Your Employer Brand Can Help Attract Top Talent
New Year, New Hire, Part 1: How Defining Your Employer Brand Can Help Attract Top Talent January always brings a wave of New Year’s resolutions, fresh starts, and new opportunities. As people set goals for this upcoming calendar year, both employees and employers will find that it may be time to make changes to how […]
Hiring Gen Z: Talent Attraction and Retention Strategies
You know the story: The skills gap is cavernous. The Great Resignation is here. Baby boomers are retiring at record pace. The employment climate is changing too quickly, and you have jobs to fill — you need to adapt. But how? First, know it’s not just you. Organisations across industries and around the globe are […]
Enhancing Employee Engagement
Authored by: Dr Lynne Cruickshank, Head of Research, PBC Enhancing Employee Engagement There is growing consensus that employee engagement is a critical element of an organisation’s success, with employee engagement found to be associated with a range of performance and business outcomes. For instance, Gallup (2020) found that employee engagement was associated with higher levels of productivity, […]
Cultivating Strategic Self-Awareness
Authored by: Dr Lynne Cruickshank, Head of Research, PBC While many of us would like to believe that we have high levels of self-awareness, unfortunately, it is not unusual for blind spots to exist between how we perceive our own behaviours and attributes and how others perceive them. These blind spots have the potential to […]
3 Ways To Build Team Trust
*This blog was originally published by Hogan Assessments The research is clear: Highly effective teams drive organisational performance.1 When a highly effective team comes together to accomplish a goal, the unique skills and characteristics of each team member work together in concert to produce work that no person could accomplish alone. The astronauts of Apollo 11 worked together to […]
How Working from Home Has Changed Employees and the Workplace
*This blog was originally published by Hogan Assessments As COVID-19 cases surge once again, organizations that were eager to have employees return to the office are delaying those plans — in many cases, indefinitely. This means that many employees will continue to work from home, whether they like it or not. There are pros and cons of […]
