Smart Hiring 15 Trait Test is a multi-dimensional personality assessment tool and can be administered and scored online, bringing in a huge number of advantages. It has been shaped to the structures of traits that basic research in Psychology has... »
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Even Slowing Economy Is not going to Protect Employers from Turnover According to Survey
Last year at about March, 2008 Salary.com, a US company focused on on-demand software around a deep domain knowledge in the area of compensation, held a survey and found that Fifty-Seven Percent of Surveyed U.S. Workers Plan to Intensify Job Search in The Next Three Months The 2007/2008 Job Satisfaction & Retention Survey revealed many other interesting results, including that inadequate... »
Testing Employees is a Winning Best HR Ideas for 2009
Human Resource Executive recently highlighted Best HR Ideas for 2009 winners which are linked here. While you will read fantastic ideas on topics like benefits, HR tech, talent management, and T&D you will also read fantastic ideas when it came to testing and assessment in recruitment AlliedBarton Security Services gathered productivity data by running tests in their Talent Lifecycle Value program... »
Hire smartly and protect your company from malicious insider attacks
The HR Manager for CarzOnRent, which is one of India's leading car rental companies and a Smart Hiring customer, confided in me that a driver under threat of losing a job, would damage the car before he is shown the door. The car is a very expensive company's asset; therefore, the threat is a cause of alarm for the company.... »
Candidate's personal branding is on Google /Facebook/Twitter
Seth Godin, a marketing guru Smart Hiring follows, has an interesting post about his friend's experience while trying to hire a housekeeper. When Seth's friend googled each candidate's name she got results that helped her take decisions. Today candidates need to be researched on Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Orkut and other social network sites. Lot of your prospective candidates are blogging and leaving their persona on the www... »
Can You Evaluate Your Own Abilities?
In an interview with Gallup Management Journal, David Dunning, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Cornell University, talked about why people aren't very good at judging themselves. Why is this important? Because it has a great deal to do with how we recruit and appraise people and selves. Read On by clicking... »
A poem by Andrew D. Carson distilling the management book Good to Great by Jim Collins.
Here is a poem by Andrew D. Carson distilling the management book Good to Great by Jim Collins. Good Is the Enemy of Great Good is the enemy of great, And much that is fair may rob of more For easy satisfaction tempts us all, And snares us in its facile comfort. First, save us from the proud leader, Who chest thumps and pens... »
Smart Hiring is looking for partners who can sell
An old TRW advertisement said "Getting an Idea from one place to another is as important as getting an idea." Smart Hiring is an idea that is unique and first time in India. A fully online psychometric test developed in India and used by small, medium and large enterprises all over the world. And Smart Hiring is looking for partners who can... »
Smart Hiring Exit Interviews
In this season of massive global layoffs and job cuts by corporate's exit interviews will go a long way for HR departments and organization to learn reasons for the person's departure, and basis that feedback organizational improvement can be planned. Exit interviews provide an opportunity for organizations to enable transfer of knowledge experience from the departing employee... »
Training lessons to be learnt from airline pilots and crew.
Amazing training lessons can be learnt from pilots on commercial airlines. As an corporate and industrial culture every pilot, before take-off, needs to brief their crew about what to expect. At the end of each flight, as a rule, they talk about what went right, what went wrong during the flight and what could be done better in the future.... »
Smart Hiring is eco-friendly and nature friendly.
Smart Hiring makes sure that your business is budget conscious and eco-friendly. Ensuring that your job applicants do not travel for testing and interviewing makes sure that you are saving money, time and management resources, all at the same time. Smart Hiring Technology for online test-taking ensures that online testing and interviewing is fun and easy to use for the... »