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Loads of companies and recruiters use some type of screening tests. Few consider the effectiveness of profiling hiring teams as an essential first step. Most often the testing and analysis is only candidates in the form of behavioral testing. Some measure job skills, others measure interpersonal and communication skills, planning and organizing, and some measure aptitudes, and still others cognitive ability. There are even some that
Posting typical job descriptions (rather than performance objectives and ideal candidate profiling) on the careers section of a corporate web site or emailing one of these is the worst thing you can do. What could possibly be more boring to a semi-active candidate (those who occasionally look to see if something interesting comes up) or passive candidates (who are not really looking at all)? Ninety
If your New Hires Don’t Exceed Your Expectations and Retention, Ask Yourself Why? Choosing a Search From that uses Performance Based Recruiting Every week I get calls from venture capital firms, CXOs, VPs, and HR folks about conducting a search for them. Many of them use several contingency recruiting firms on each search, thinking that the more candidates or resumes they receive creates a large
The USA is in an economic dilemma. We sit on more natural gas than the rest of the world combined. The amount of oil and gas just 50 miles off our coastal shorelines and the potential of fracking and oil sand extraction is an obvious answer to spurt immediate growth in oil and gas jobs. In fact, oil and gas IS the next industrial revolution
“NextGen undertook an extremely difficult search for a VP Products with great enthusiasm and applied their extensive knowledge, skills and experience to the task. They gave constant and consistent feedback and made recommendations on adjustments necessary to ensure success. NextGen was diligent, and left no stone unturned in their quest to find the right candidate. I would have no hesitation retaining NextGen Global Executive
Refinery downtime, extraction production losses, and pipeline stoppages cost the oil and gas industry billions every year. Until predictive modeling and predictive monitoring came about, for several years executives have spent billions on reactive maintenance and millions on enterprise asset management (EAM) condition based monitoring which has focused the attention on reliability to deal with the constant up and down cycles and maintenance costs. While