How the DISC Profile Reveals Top Candidates

How the DISC Profile Reveals Top Candidates

  Can you pinpoint the behavioral responses that your top performing managers produce consistently and naturally? What about your top-performing salespeople? Administrative assistants?   Let’s turn these questions on their heads.   Can you identify the...
How To Make Efficient Hiring Decisions [Infographic]

How To Make Efficient Hiring Decisions [Infographic]

Top candidates are on and off the job market within 10 days, according to Officevibe. Based on the average time most organizations take to hire, that applicant who caught your eye was happily settled in his new position 24 days before you made an offer! The pressure...
Structured Interviews: A Conversation with an HR Team

Structured Interviews: A Conversation with an HR Team

Previously, we’ve advised implementing structured interviews in growing organizations. Today, I had the privilege of sitting down with the HR team at Qualbe Marketing Group to get a firsthand look at how to make that transition. Pull up a chair and take a look at our...
Get More Out of Your Structured Interview Process

Get More Out of Your Structured Interview Process

  If you could only choose one song to play every time you walked into a room for the rest of your life, what would it be?   What do you think of lava lamps? And Dilbert?   If you could be remembered for one sentence, what would it be?   If you had...
Improve Your Hiring Decisions by Measuring Productivity

Improve Your Hiring Decisions by Measuring Productivity

Hiring is expensive. Bad hiring is even worse. Currently, a search of “the cost of bad hiring” returns more than 36 million results in just over 60 seconds. Plenty of helpful articles have been written on the topic. If you haven’t done any reading on this, allow...
Activator Strength: Hustle or Haste?

Activator Strength: Hustle or Haste?

An important concept to understand when taking the StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment is understanding the difference between a talent and a strength. The organization (Gallup) that created the StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment defines both: Talent: a natural way of...
Achiever Strength: Workhorse or Workaholic?

Achiever Strength: Workhorse or Workaholic?

If you have taken the StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment, you have a Top 5 list. But is this list your Top 5 strengths or talents? What is the difference? Gallup--the organization that created the StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment--defines both: Talent: a natural way of...
Introverted Sensing vs Extroverted Sensing

Introverted Sensing vs Extroverted Sensing

Sensing is one of the 4 basic functions in Myers & Briggs personality theory. Referring to the way a person prefers to take in information, it is the opposite of iNtuition and simply means that the person prefers to pay more attention to data taken in through the...