Can Pre-Employment Tests Help Candidate Selection?

Companies live and die by the quality of workers they recruit. For this reason, companies over the years have sought out ways to screen applicants in order to select the right candidate(s) for the job.   One way of selecting employees is by the use of pre-employment tests such as skills tests, psychological tests, aptitude…

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Reasons To Use A Background Check Company To Screen Potential Hires

It is important nowadays to use background checks. It is an essential step in making sure you are hiring the right person. The level of exaggeration and outright lying on resumes has made it necessary to carry out background check.  Companies want to identify serious issues in the candidate’s personal or work history. However, there…

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Five Tips To Get Ahead In Your Career

Are you just beginning a new job? Or are you stuck in a job, wondering just what to do to get ahead in your career? If you want to make a success out of an y job, you must follow certain best practices that high achievers and successful people have followed throughout the ages. Successful…

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Yes. You Can Get A Job This Year

It was far from easy to get a job in 2013. This year would be even more competitive. If you are searching for a job, you might wonder if you would be able to get a job when there are so few opportunities. Since this is not a doom and gloom article, we are delighted…

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Four Functions of a Human Resource Team

Whether or not you have a dedicated human resources team, you would still have to cope with challenges in managing employees. As your business grows, you would need to assess your talent needs and hire right. So even though you may not have a human capital team, here are four issues you should concern yourself…

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Five Books Small Business Owners Should Read

“A room without Books is like a Body without a soul”– Mark Tullius Cicero   Whatever your opinion on bodies and soul, you would agree with Cicero that books are quite important. As a small business owner, good business books give you proven advice that would help you in your business. In these articles, we…

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How To Improve Employee Engagement

Are your employees happy? Engagement is a popular topic among human resources professionals because they are aware of the importance of having employees that are happy with their jobs. Employee engagement has strong links to profitability, customer satisfaction and turnover. So how do you ensure your employees are engaged? -> Make employee engagement part of…

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How To Keep Yourself on Track for Growth

Would you like to be counted as a great achiever? If so, what habits are you working on to help you grow and live a life of achievement? Most great achievers are known for their conscious planning towards improvement in every area of their life. How do you improve yourself with each passing day? Today…

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Why Your Business Needs An Intern

Well, we don’t really mean need in the true sense of that word. However, it makes sense to hire some interns for your business. While you may want to populate your business with battle hardened veterans of your industry, there are several reasons why you should throw in a few interns into the scene. COST…

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Employment Trends To Watch Out For

People just coming into the job market today are faced with challenges in securing decent jobs. Given such a dire situation, we might be wondering what the future holds and if things would get better or worse. As long as the economy is facing problems, there would also be problems with securing gainful employment. This…

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