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Back to Hiring Basics: Benchmark How and Why the Top 25% Change Jobs

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It turns out that anyone can be in the top 25% with the right job, the right company, and the right hiring manager. But this is a rare event despite having spent $400-500 billion in job postings and HR tech in the past 25 years in the hope of matching the perfect job with the perfect candidate.

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Tags: Hiring Decisions, Hiring Success, Interview Questions, Performance-based Hiring, Quality of Hire

Posted in: Assessing Soft Skills, Current Articles, Recruiting & Closing, Talent Strategy

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Filling Generic Jobs with Generic People is a Recipe for Disappointment

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It turns out that hiring outstanding talent on a consistent basis has little to do with your ATS, which job boards you use or the quality of your competency model. The process shown in the image below (PDF version) will give you consistent great results as long as you do these four things first:

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Tags: Hiring Top Performers, Hiring Top Talent, Passive Candidate Recruiting, Performance-based Hiring, sourcing

Posted in: Controlling Bias, Current Articles, Passive Candidate Recruiting, Rethinking the Job Description

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“Tell me about yourself” and other PBI interviewing tips

Posted by Lou Adler

The traditional interview process has been shown to be unreliable in predicting job performance, often due to bias, lack of training and a focus on surface-level characteristics. The Performance-based Interview (PBI) is a natural language approach that seeks to assess an individual's competency, fit and motivation by asking them to describe their past performance in specific situations. Studies have shown that the PBI is a more accurate predictor of job performance than other interview methods, making it a valuable tool for organizations seeking to hire the best candidates. Moreover, the PBI can be used to assess candidates at all levels of experience, making it an ideal method for career development and succession planning.

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Tags: hiring, interview, Performance-based Hiring

Posted in: Current Articles, Performance-based Interview, Rethinking the Job Description, Talent Strategy

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The Traditional Interview is a Terrible Predictor of Performance

Posted by Lou Adler

One of Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is “Begin with the end in mind.” This is great advice whenever implementing any type of process improvement program especially changing how hiring is done at your company. “Think win-win” is another one of Covey's seven habits. When it comes to hiring, this habit is doubly important. It means ensuring the new hire and the hiring manager both recognize the importance of making the right decision and both have all of the information needed to make the right one. Due to its importance this habit has been adopted as the overriding goal and theme of the new edition of Hire with Your Head and rightly called “Win-Win Hiring.” It means hiring for the anniversary date rather than the start date.

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Tags: Performance-based Hiring, Quality of Hire, recruiting

Posted in: Current Articles, Diversity Hiring, Passive Candidate Recruiting

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Performance-based Hiring is Win-Win Hiring

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As part of the fourth edition of Hire with Your Head (Wiley, September 2021) we’re starting a unique book club for those who pre-order the book. Over the next several weeks I’ll be highlighting different themes from the book. This week focuses on the idea of hiring for the long-term rather than the start date in order to achieve consistent Win-Win Hiring outcomes.

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Tags: achieve consistent, Hiring Decisions, Hiring outcomes., Hiring Top Talent, Performance-based Hiring, win-win

Posted in: Controlling Bias, Current Articles, Diversity Hiring

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Stop Making Tactical Excuses for a Strategic Hiring Problem

Posted by Lou Adler

The fourth edition of Hire with Your Head (Wiley, September 2021) will soon be published. As part of the unique book club we’re putting together for those who pre-order the book program, I’ll be selecting different sections of the book to highlight. The opening of the book makes the case that most hiring problems are strategic in nature, so I’ll start there.

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