The Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week
“Imagine you’re a seasoned chef,” writes Psychology Today in a recent article, “tasked with judging a cooking competition. But instead of tasting the dishes, you’re only allowed to interview the contestants about their recipes. Sounds absurd, right? Yet this job interviewing process is precisely how we’ve approached the lion’s share of hiring for the past
How Olympic Swimmer Kate Douglass Uses Data to Win — and You Can Too
When U.S. swimmer Kate Douglass steps onto the starting block at the Paris Olympics Aquatics Centre next week, she’ll have data analytics — in part — to thank for getting her there. Don’t get us wrong. Kate has logged plenty of hours in the pool. A swimmer since she was 7, she’s driven herself to
How to Improve Employee Engagement and Well-Being, According to the Latest Gallup Report
A happy, engaged manager makes for a happy, engaged team. That was one of the takeaways written in bold in Gallup’s latest State of the Global Workplace report, which examines workers’ mental health and well-being. The thumbs up was great news for companies teeming with engaged managers. But for the rest of the workplace, the
Cutting to the Chase: How to Rein In a Candidate’s Long-Winded Answer
If you’ve done even a modest amount of interviewing, you’ve certainly heard your share of long-winded (and sometimes aimless) stories about big, complex projects or engagements. You ask a simple question about a key highlight in a candidate’s last role and, before you know it, you’re 15 minutes into a story with seemingly no way
The Pros and Cons of Sharing Interview Questions Early
So, your candidate is sitting in their interview, sweating bullets as the recruiter throws curveball questions their way. How different would they feel if they knew the questions beforehand? And would that lead to a fairer assessment of their skills and experience? It’s fair to say that providing candidates with interview questions in advance is
The Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week
According to a recent article from the Harvard Business Review, research on what motivates people at work has traditionally fallen into three buckets. Those buckets include working harder for: Money and status (extrinsic motivation)Joy and fulfillment (intrinsic motivation)A sense of making a difference to others in the world (prosocial motivation) New research, however, suggests that
How to Coach an Underperforming Employee
When faced with an underperforming employee, you may instinctively turn to formal training sessions as a solution. But while training is undoubtedly valuable, it’s not the best fit for every situation. As learning and performance strategist Jess Almlie shared in a recent post, “Sometimes, it doesn’t matter how fantastically designed our learning solutions are because
Why GAI and Boolean Search Is a Winning Approach to Sourcing
In the world of sourcing and recruiting, the rumors of the death of Boolean search have been greatly exaggerated over the years. Despite many advancements in AI-powered automated matching between jobs and potential candidates, Boolean search has remained a required skill. This is largely because job descriptions themselves have historically not been accurate representations of
The Must-Read Articles for Talent Professionals This Week
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over 2% of adults in the country are autistic. That’s 5.4 million people — with many more undiagnosed. Many autistic adults go to great lengths to hide their disability, especially in the workplace. In a recent article, The New York Times interviewed one woman
