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The Hiring Process Checklist: A Step-By-Step Guide

Talent acquisition is more competitive than ever today. Employers face the tightest job market in history: low unemployment rates, high job mobility and a wide skills gap. It's more difficult to fill critical jobs. Companies large and small need to develop an efficient hiring process to attract, identify, and hire people with the right skill sets and attributes to fit your team.

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How to Measure and Assess Soft Skills

How to Measure and Assess Soft Skills

Soft skills determine how employees interact with others: coworkers, managers, customers, clients, vendors, and anyone else they might come in contact with while representing your brand.

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Do College Degrees Impact Employee Performance?

Do College Degrees Impact Employee Performance?

When you browse job listings, you quickly notice that employers are still looking to hire college graduates for many office jobs. Most white collar job postings and many trade jobs list a bachelor’s degree or higher as a requirement.

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What Is an Applicant Pool and How Can You Improve It?

What Is an Applicant Pool and How Can You Improve It?

Attracting an applicant pool is the first step to filling a position. Finding well-qualified applicants isn’t always as easy as it sounds. Because the value of the hire depends heavily on the quality of your applicant pool, it’s worth the time to ensure you have outstanding candidates before interviewing.

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Why Hiring Takes So Long and How to Speed It Up

Why Hiring Takes So Long and How to Speed It Up

Talent shortages and increased competition has made hiring difficult in a pandemic. Top candidates are often swept off the market quickly, meaning businesses who fail to act fast are left to choose from a smaller, less-qualified applicant pool. You’ll be able to sign the most in-demand talent by shortening your recruitment process before your competition lures them away.

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How to Reduce Employee Turnover

How to Reduce Employee Turnover

Losing valuable employees is expensive, disruptive and time-consuming. Between severance pay, temp coverage, hiring expenses and training new employees, the costs of losing staff — especially top performers — can quickly add up. If you’re like many managers, you seek strategies to keep your people happy and reduce employee turnover.

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10 New Employee Warning Signs You Shouldn't Ignore

10 New Employee Warning Signs You Shouldn't Ignore

Not every new hire is a top-performer and not every bad hire is a catastrophe. However, hiring mistakes are always costly. The productivity of your team is at stake. The sooner you can replace a bad hire, the better.

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What is Succession Planning? Process and Steps to Take

What is Succession Planning? Process and Steps to Take

Succession planning is a contingency plan for the future of your company. When a key employee leaves without sufficient notice, the company could be left in the lurch. Even long-term employees may leave their jobs at any time. The pandemic, for example, caught a lot of businesses by surprise.

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6 Best Practices for Using Pre-Employment Tests

6 Best Practices for Using Pre-Employment Tests

During the hiring process, employers often misdirect their initial review efforts on resumes. In other words, they focus solely on candidates' experience, background, and education.

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The Full Cost of a Bad Hire for Your Business

The Full Cost of a Bad Hire for Your Business

Hiring the right person for the job can enhance your bottom line, but hiring the wrong person can devastate your business. When the cost of a bad hire becomes too high, the hiring process repeats, often with similar results.

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Effective Interview Questions to Ask Your Next Hire

Effective Interview Questions to Ask Your Next Hire

An interview is usually a limited opportunity for employers to learn about an applicant well enough to make an informed, accurate hiring decision. Employers too often tell Hire Success that applicants looked great on paper and said all the right things in the interview, but it was a different story once the interviewee was on the job.

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Best Assessment Tools for Recruiters

Best Assessment Tools for Recruiters

If your primary recruitment assessment tools include stalking a Linkedin profile and drafting email queries, you can spend a lot of time without identifying the best possible candidates. Given the importance of identifying the right people quickly to edge out the competition, yesterday’s approach to recruiting might be costly to your reputation and business relationships.

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How to Avoid Bad Hires & Spot Red Flag Candidates

How to Avoid Bad Hires & Spot Red Flag Candidates

Hiring the right people to fill your team is always a challenge, and it’s even harder today. But can you afford a bad hire? Hiring the wrong employee could be the worst thing to ever happen to your company. The negative energy from one bad hire can poison your office space, sink your productivity, and damage your business reputation.

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Hire Success

Understanding Dominant Personalities at Work

Understanding Dominant Personalities at Work

Are you looking for strategies to work with or manage a dominant personality in the workplace? Or maybe you’re more dominant by nature and are seeking tips to improve your work relationships and job performance. Whatever your reasoning, this post will help you identify and communicate effectively with dominant personalities, as well as recognize the benefits of having one on your team.

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10 Common Problems with Your Interview Process

10 Common Problems with Your Interview Process

Have you ever discovered that a person you hired to do a job – someone you felt you really “knew” after an extensive resume review and interview process – turned out to be totally different than what you expected? If you find yourself with consistent bad hires, your interview process is likely to blame. It may be time to evaluate your interview process, make sure you’re asking the right questions, and decide what kind of answers produce the most successful hires. Let’s take a look at common problems with interview methods and discuss how to improve your hiring process.

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Hire Success

How to Shortlist Job Applicants

How to Shortlist Job Applicants

You’ve posted your ad and received a big stack of applications from job seekers. But now, how do you decide which prospects are top candidates and deserve to come in for an interview? Below, we’ll take a look at why and how to shortlist job applicants, including how to establish your selection criteria for shortlisting applicants, and how to remain objective and fair during the process.

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When to Hire Your First Employee

When to Hire Your First Employee

You took the leap, became an entrepreneur, and founded your own company. Your customer list has grown, and you’re beginning to see real results — and also starting to feel swamped. Even if you realize you need help, you may be feeling anxious and wondering, “How do I know if I am ready to hire? What if something goes wrong?” These feelings are natural, but there are some telltale signs that let you know when a small business should start hiring.

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How to Write a Successful Job Ad

How to Write a Successful Job Ad

Creating an attractive job ad can be challenging, but knowing how to write a job advertisement is critical to attracting top talent to your organization. Let’s take a look at why job ads are so important, how they differ from job descriptions, the necessary elements, and some tips on how to write a job advertisement that will get the attention of the best candidates.

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Hire Success

How to Develop an Effective Job Description

How to Develop an Effective Job Description

Putting together a clear, thorough, and well-developed job description takes time and effort. In fact, many organizations fail to recognize just how a job description is different from an ad/posting and how valuable effective job descriptions are. And many companies don’t put in the work necessary to create them.

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7 Hiring & Recruitment Mistakes to Avoid

7 Hiring & Recruitment Mistakes to Avoid

When it comes to hiring new employees, the stakes are high. Every time you make a bad hire, you’re left with the costs of recruiting, onboarding, and training a replacement.

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Hire Success

Structured vs. Unstructured Interviews

Structured vs. Unstructured Interviews

There are two basic styles, or models, of interviews employers usually use when hiring new employees: structured and unstructured interviews. Just like job candidates, each one has its own strengths and weaknesses. But do the advantages of a structured interview outweigh the advantages of an unstructured interview?

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How Wellbox uses Hire Success® to keep up with a huge volume of applicants

How Wellbox uses Hire Success® to keep up with a huge volume of applicants

When Wellbox advertises an opening, the applications don't just pour in. It's more like a tidal wave.

Rachel Matuch
Rachel Matuch

Developing Baselines - The untapped wealth of information in your office

Developing Baselines - The untapped wealth of information in your office

At Hire Success, we refer to the task of identifying and quantifying personality characteristics and traits as developing a baseline. Whatever you call it — determining an “ideal profile,” “benchmarking,” etc. — the process involves determining ideal standards for hiring or promoting employees.

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Hire Success

Why Not to Use Myers-Briggs® for Pre-Employment Screening

Why Not to Use Myers-Briggs® for Pre-Employment Screening

Many hiring managers are familiar with the Myers-Briggs® Type Indicator (MBTI) — a self-report questionnaire designed to indicate psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions.

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Hire Success

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