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Anybody who has ever hired anybody knows the basic of good and bad hiring practices.
Bad:
“I’d like to get her in for that 9th interview that we mentioned”
“I worry that the other people on his team won’t be able to pronounce his name”
“I’ve been recruiting for years, I can spot the right fit 2 minutes into an interview”
Apparently labour laws in most of the world prevent you from actually chaining somebody to their desk, I can’t think why, it was good enough for the Ancient Greeks (not desks, big boats) and they were, like, the founders of civilization.
It’s your hiring process.
Your ATS
The problem with your ATS is that you either use it or you don’t.
Great, that’s insightful isn’t it?
Here to help.
You don’t use it.
I joke that the ATS is where candidates go to die. Many more seasoned agency recruiters know this in the literal sense.
“Hi, my name is Gareth, Bob sent his resume to us a few years ago and I was hoping to talk to hi about a role”. “I’m sorry, Bob died 4 years ago”. Cue pregnant pause…..
I know, it’s funny and ridiculous but then again, it was only September 4th that the Federal Trade Commission banned non competes that locked people into crappy jobs, inhibited innovation, depressed wages and increased healthcare costs.
But other than that they were a great idea.
It’s a shame though, indentured servitude has always been great for the employee experience…..
Walmart is, I think, the latest major corporation to roll back Diversity, Equity and inclusion initiatives. Many think this is largely a reflection of a shift to the right in the political landscape.
Other companies to either be thought leaders or crumple under the pressure of public pressure are Harley Davidson, Lowes, Ford motor Company and John Deere.
I was reading this article on LinkedIn about soft skills and some excellent questions to ask to do a deep dive on assessing soft skills and then I started reflecting.
First off, what are soft skills?
Resistance to change is well documented in organizational development. There are a number of reasons listed below and some thoughts on how to overcome them and encourage people to face up to their biases and make that unconscious bias more conscious.
I spend way too much time reading blogs and articles on the job search, and recently I’ve spent way too much time writing some of that content myself. And everything seems to assume you just jump right in and off you go.
Advances in psychometrics and talent analytics have unlocked new ways to measure team chemistry. Powerful assessments like The Predictive Index measure social traits and cognitive functions across four key dimensions.
Using behavioral science to help you close the gap between where you are and where you want to be isn’t just smart – it’s almost part of your job description – so use the tops in this blog to stand out from the pack. You can hire smarter, faster, and better for every role you touch – and it starts with behavioral science.
LinkedIn is the largest candidate database out there, 780 million users, all data is self reported so is extremely reliable. That last phrase “self reported” is the kicker here, if you don’t report it then nobody will know but just like every marketing effort, you also need to think about how you get found, ie how you start to rank higher in any search.
Here at Gateway we use behavioral profiles to complement the skills and experience selection criteria that have been in place since Moses was a little boy. It’s not the resume that you’re looking to show up for work but the whole person so it’s a good idea to understand WHO that person is.
Gareth’s lazy post. Rather than write something myself I thought I’d just tell you to go read somebody else’s stuff.
Femi Otitoju said ”if you have a brain, you have a bias”.
And we have a whole selection of flavours of bias to choose from. This article lists out 50 cognitive biases you can be aware of, but we can settle on around 10-12 as core culprits.
So just in case you haven’t heard, there’s this pandemic thing going around and that has, to a very large extent, altered the way that we recruit and select candidates.
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