The "Win-Win" Performance-based Hiring Articles, Insights and Podcasts

Hiring Has a Below Zero Sigma Rate

Hiring Has a Below Zero Sigma Rate

Why is HR allowed to operate the only enterprise process where a 99.5% defect rate is considered normal — and then celebrate AI for making it faster? Now let me prove the shocking claim. First we just pulsed the major media market reviewing published reports for the...

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Directions to the Hidden Talent Market

Directions to the Hidden Talent Market

By automating the labor-intensive aspects of high-touch hiring while preserving its relationship-centered core, AI makes it possible to extend these best practices across the entire talent acquisition function. In today's competitive hiring landscape, two distinct...

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Let’s Break Some HR Rules: Using AI and First Principles to Reshape Hiring

Let’s Break Some HR Rules: Using AI and First Principles to Reshape Hiring

First Principles thinking is a problem-solving approach that involves breaking down complex issues into their most basic, foundational elements. Rather than relying on existing assumptions or conventional wisdom, this method encourages questioning every component until the simplest truths are uncovered. When this approach is applied to hiring something unique emerges and it’s not what 95% of companies are doing today.

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Developing a Personal SWOT to Ace the Interview

Developing a Personal SWOT to Ace the Interview

This newsletter has been created for job seekers, recruiters and hiring managers who want to learn how to conduct an objective performance-based interview. This specific article is designed to help candidates prepare for this type of interview which involves having candidates describe major accomplishments most comparable to the performance needs of the job. Here’s the short course for those who want to understand the background underlying this methodology.

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Converting Jobs into Careers

Converting Jobs into Careers

Using a single sentence prompt I asked ChatGPT to convert this LinkedIn Learning course on embedding post-hire success into the pre-hire process into a compelling super short story. It follows below. Send us a link to one of your open job descriptions and we’ll show you how to make Amelia’s story yours.

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