Category: Validation and Verification

Optimize Your Staffing Decisions by Using In-depth Work Style and Personality Assessment Tools; Part 2

As mentioned in part one of this article, the wrong hiring decision can cost your company well over two to three times the individual’s salary according to Barry Deutsch, Impact Hiring Solutions. This figure may be a conservative estimate because of factors like training, evaluation, termination, re-initiating the hiring process, and lost opportunity costs. There [...]

The Real Reason For Checking References

Checking references is a critical component of the process of hiring top talent. Reference Checking is a key element of Step Five in our Success Factor Methodology of validating, verifying, and vetting what the candidate claimed in the interview. Most hiring executives and manages contend that candidates embellish and exaggerate what they’ve done and what [...]

Optimize Your Staffing Decisions by Using In-depth Work Style and Personality Assessment Tools

The wrong hiring decision can cost your company well over two to three times the individual’s salary according to Barry Deutsch, IMPACT Hiring Solutions. This figure may be a conservative estimate because of factors like training, evaluation, termination, re-initiating the hiring process, and lost opportunity costs. There is also an emotional factor involved in a [...]

The Real Purpose for Checking References

In just about every in-house company workshop we conduct on hiring, ( See our University for workshops), sooner or later the topic of reference checking comes up. Usually someone will ask, “Isn’t reference checking a waste of time? After all, the person is only going to give you  someone that will say positive things.”  As [...]

Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 in Validation and Verification | 10 Comments »

Hiring Frustration #6: Useless Candidate Evaluation

The interview has ended and the candidate has left the building. Bob, the Vice President and Sue, the Director/Hiring Executive, come out of their offices and meet up at the proverbial water cooler. Let’s assume they both liked the candidate. Here’s what their conversation might sound like after Bob says to Sue “So, what did [...]

Shocked by your candidate’s on-line image?

When you’re presented with a resume, (regardless of whether it comes from an internal HR pro, a 3rd-party recruiter, a network contact, or off an advertisement), do you go on-line and check them out. What type of rants are your candidates posting on Myspace, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter? What pictures are they posting on Flickr [...]

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