This is a Podcast – 9 Minutes Many of you would be aware of the Dr Murray fiasco. He was CEO of the Waikato District Health Board and ran up large unapproved expenses. Past behaviour reflects future behaviour, so my burning question to the Board of Directors, “Did you talk to the Chairperson of his […]

This is a Podcast – 9.5 Minutes Why do employees – hired by the same methods, doing the same job, and managed by the same person – perform so differently? Dependency on the traditional one-on-one unstructured interview is a prime reason. Besides being the most expensive tool (management time) in the selection process, the unstructured […]

This is a Podcast (7 Minutes). A transcript is available HERE  Candidate communication is what I want to get on my high horse about. It is not only my daughter’s recent experience, but bad candidate communication is one of the pet peeves of job seekers everywhere. Apart from it being just bad manners, it surely […]

This is a Podcast – 8.30 Minutes There are many myths surrounding cognitive ability testing – often referred to as a mental ability tests. What do these tests measure? In short, intelligence. According to Spearman (2005), intelligence is something that helps people to solve problems, when the elements can be apprehended by almost anyone. Most […]

This is a Podcast – 12.30 Minutes (You can download the referred academic paper from the link below)  Here at AssessAdvantage, we are often asked to explain why the Prevue Assessment, that measures General Mental Ability, Interest/Motivation and the Big Five personality traits, is one the best available measures of job fit to identify the […]

This is a Podcast – 8.45 Minutes Long Hiring new employees is no “walk in the park”. My grandmother taught me to always invest in quality up front to save waste and agony down the line. “Gut feel” hiring, or taking the easy road and relying on third parties to do the job for you […]

This is a Podcast – 6.5 minutes When it comes to hiring, most managers only use a CV and an interview to make the big call on who to throw an average of forty-five thousand dollars to! A bad hire cost about 2.5X an employee’s annual salary! CVs and interviews represent around 20{e984e047a0cf0683b5e0a609dc9adff1ef3040909f42c61fefd344cb6b0a14a5} of hiring […]

This is a Podcast – 7 Minutes It’s a given, using past performance to predict future performance is the most critical measure in the hiring process. Committing to a new hire is a big deal. Whether you’re hiring hourly employees or corporate leaders, you’ve spent money and man hours to recruit, assess, and interview many (or most) of your […]

This is a Podcast – 5.30 Minutes What sales role today doesn’t require good written communication? Emails alone make up a tremendous amount of sales communication. And then there’s sales proposals. Although many organisations have these on template, most sales roles require their sales people to craft proposals for individual prospects (if only the ‘deal’ […]

This is a Podcast – 7 Minutes Last week, I had two interesting questions from clients, one asked what I thought were the main reasons employees leave a job? Here I address the three pillars of Job Engagement. The other question was what I see are the most common faults Hiring Managers make when recruiting […]