I’m Engaged!!!
It’s a match made in heaven and it seemed so appropriate to tell everybody today of all days. Wait, let’s back up a bit. I’m already married. But now I’m engaged too. For anybody who’s been unfortunate enough to read some of my more recent blogs, you’ll see that I’m big on retaining employees. How […]
What else can you do to hire the best talent?
The job interview isn’t going anywhere. Rightly so, it remains the centrepiece of the recruiting exercise but you’ll notice that I didn’t say the “traditional” job interview. As a way of predicting job success it’s flawed in so many ways, particularly the unstructured job interview that will only predict job success 13% of the time. […]
Cognitive studies in the candidate selection process. Why?
Here at Gateway we’ve been recruiting and selecting using behavioral surveys to help select candidates for almost 2 years but an article that I read about 12 months ago really turned me on to finding a product that would also measure cognitive ability. Enter stage left Predictive Index who offer a suite of selection tools […]
Behavioral Analyses in the Candidate Selection Process – A primer.
Gateway recently signed on with another provider of pre-employment testing tools, Predictive Index. Look them up to get an idea of what they offer. As a result, I’ve had to re-educate myself because even though many of the tools do the same thing, the method of delivery and supporting research requires more training. Psychometric testing, […]
