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The 3rd Dimension of Hiring – A Seven Part Series on PSI Surveys from Team Excellence
Part One:
Working with Others
The PSI survey from Team Excellence uncovers the third dimension of hiring. If you’ve been hiring using only the what (they’ve done) and where (they’ve gone to school or worked) you’re missing the 3rd dimension of hiring: who the candidate is. PSI surveys uncover traits they bring to the workplace that help them thrive. Knowing who candidates are, as well as what they’ve done, helps match work styles for a smooth-running relationship or team.
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2D Recruitment Out: 3D Recruitment In
Multi-dimensional recruitment equals better hires
2D Recruiting is Guesswork
Resume screening is the bane of recruiters. Whether you receive 5 responses or 500, the 2 dimensional picture they provide is limited to where and what. You see where they’ve worked and gone to school, and what they’ve done – but who are they? What and where are important, but not always indicators of success. What you need to affect the best hires is insight into who candidates are: how they perform and respond, what they need to succeed, and how they’ll enhance the team.
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A Different World, A Different View: Japanese Millennials
Millennial is a term to describe the generational group that is age 18-34 this year. In many places around the world they are projected to overtake the Baby Boom generation (ages 51-69 in 2015) in total numbers this year as the largest living generation. Millennials is not projected to overtake the Gen X (ages 35-50 in 2015) in number until 2028. Why does this matter? By 2025, three out of every four workers globally will be Millennials. They already make up 80% of the workforce in some companies. Soon, they will dominate the workplace and shape the future of organizations worldwide.
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Four most common hiring mistakes and their impact on team management
While selecting or hiring a team member or an individual employee, it is very important to keep all the aspects of job description and job requirements under consideration.
Selecting the wrong person for the job can have a negative impact on the entire business. For example, consider the overall turnover cost to be around 40% of the employee’s annual salary. If you do the math: If you have a turnover of 2 employees per year, with average annual salary of around $40,000, you are already incurring about $32,000 just to keep the number of employees.
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5 Most common Management mistakes
Introduction
Managers and leaders hold the key to success of the entire team. If the manager or leader is incompetent, the entire team is destined to fail. The team cannot perform at their best level, if they are not managed properly. At the end of the day, the blame or the credit of the result goes to the manager. A single mistake from the manager can become the sole reason for the demise of the entire project.
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What Makes a Dream Team?
One cannot stress enough the importance of having an effective team for the success of an organization. Establishing a high-performance and efficient team does not only comprise of having a pool of talented individuals.
For a team to be effective, its members must be united in achieving a vision and must motivate each other to get to that goal. A well-gelled team must share clear, measurable goals and should be committed to play their part in achieving the group’s overall success.
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5 Steps of building an effective team culture
Introduction
It is very important in a business environment to maintain a healthy and effective team culture. Team culture, according to Oxford Dictionary, is ‘’the attitudes, beliefs, and norms of a team. Team culture is concerned with how the team operates including its selection procedures and power structure; how rewards are given, acceptable behaviour and dress code. Team culture often depends on the traditions, or lack of them, of a team.’’
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Top 5 reasons why employees leave their job
Introduction
According to a recent Gallup survey, US Economy loses $370 Billion worth of productivity due to disengaged employees annually. In 2010, employees voluntarily leaving their jobs were greater than number of employees fired or discharged by the HR department. In the current scenario, this is a huge problem for the developing countries as well as the established countries of the world. There are a number of reasons why people leave their jobs. From the level of productivity to common job environment issues, we’ll take a look at the top 5 reasons that eventually result in quitting a job.
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Recruitment Outsourcing with Personality Surveys
Much has been heard about outsourcing, or the allocation of a particular business process to an external service provider. Outsourcing happens when a business or an organization is unable to carry out all aspects of its business process internally and this aspect is allocated to another company.
It is more common in information technology as well as industries for services that have been usually looked upon as fundamental to managing a business. For example, there are cases that the entire information management of a company is outsourced, including the aspects about planning and business analysis.
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How to Build Motivation Among Your Employees
There will be times that your employees lose their motivation, which is not a rare situation, and it can be fixed quite easily. There are various ways to ensure that your employees stay motivated and know their worth to your business or company. For instance giving honest recognition when it comes to work achievements that have been made, and even encouraging your employees to strive for excellence in themselves.
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