With Big Data Comes a Big Demand for Artificial Intelligence Professionals (Part 1)
Some of the biggest and most successful companies in our economy have been using big data for years. Google started with incorporating data algorithms to analyze relationships between websites and improve web searches. Amazon uses a customer database and algorithms to provide personalized shopping recommendations. More recently, Facebook received attention for its use of personal […]
Using Personality Tests in Interviews: The Ticket to Hiring Success
Never underestimate a sound talent acquisition strategy. When organisations commit to using personality tests in interviews, they find candidates who fit seamlessly into their roles. And the candidates who discover a perfect synergy between their personalities and roles? They end up making magic on the job. This blog was originally posted on Hogan Assessments. The Curious […]
The Big Five Personality Characteristics: A Look Behind the Hogan Personality Tests
*This blog was originally posted on Hogan Assessments. If you’re learning about the Hogan personality tests, you’ve almost certainly heard about the Big Five. And if that was the first you’d heard of the term, you probably wondered, “How big could the Big Five be if the concept was unknown to me before today?” Well, in […]
Screening and assessing potential graduates pays off for NSW Government
NSW Government has won top ranking in the Australian Financial Review’s 2021 Top 100 Graduate Employer List – an achievement that has been six years in the making. PBC’s role in supporting NSW Government to attract talented new graduates has focused on designing and implementing the selection program, encouraging diversity, and identifying future leaders, in […]
Screening and assessing potential graduates pays off for NSW Government
NSW Government has won top ranking in the Australian Financial Review’s 2021 Top 100 Graduate Employer List – an achievement that has been six years in the making. PBC’s role in supporting NSW Government to attract talented new graduates has focused on designing and implementing the selection program, encouraging diversity, and identifying future leaders, in […]
Personality Differences Across the Australian Government
Authored by: Dr Lynne Cruickshank While there is often talk about the differences between leaders in the public and private sectors, what has been less frequently explored are differences between leaders working within local, state and federal levels of government. Each level of government has its own unique challenges and issues and understanding what differentiates […]
Personality and Leader 360 Performance
There is great value in using well-validated 360 and personality assessments to help enhance a leader’s self-awareness and development. While both types of assessments provide valuable insights regarding a leader’s strengths and opportunities when used alone, they are particularly powerful when used together as part of coaching or development conversations. The 360 assessment provides useful […]
Personality and Mindfulness – More Natural for Some than Others and How it Matters
Mindfulness has been around the world for centuries. For roughly 40 years and popularized by Jon Kabat-Zinn in the west, it’s been taught as a set of practices to increase insight, manage pain, and reduce stress. Also known as present-moment awareness, mindfulness has become a bright, shiny object in business literature and, to a growing […]
What Makes Up the Personality of a Successful Entrepreneur?
Businesses have long used the powerful information contained in personality assessments to facilitate leadership performance and outcomes. Understanding an individual’s personality—or their unique characteristic ways of being—can be helpful when seeking to identify those who may be well-suited to leadership roles (i.e., selection), as well as to improve the performance and outcomes of those already inhabiting leadership roles (i.e., […]
CEOs in Crisis: The Influence of Leaders’ Performance Risks (Part 2)
Some personality traits can pose risks to companies’ success. These traits, which Hogan calls derailers, tend to arise when people are stressed, fatigued, or bored (that is, when we do not exercise self-control). These are the most challenging elements of personality to work with, and they are the most damaging to our careers. Because crises such […]
