The Importance of Routines
Daily routines help you organize your tasks efficiently to get the most done in the least amount of time. Although it may seem tedious to set a routine and stick to it (whether it's a morning routine with toothbrushes involved or a work routine with a strict schedule), there are great benefits to sticking with a routine. It helps productivity "Peak productivity’s not about luck. It’s about devotion." - Robin Sharma Practice and repetition are [...]
Leading the Next Generation
Things are rapidly changing in the way leaders manage their talent. The leadership style needed to guide the new generations filling our workforce is vastly different from the top-down model so many of us are used to. According to Dan Schwabel in an interview, millennials leave their jobs in two years, whereas Boomers leave in about seven years and Gen X leaves in five years. They value purpose more than a salary, and are willing [...]
Find Top Qualified Candidates with Job Simulations
Finding the most qualified candidate for a job is seldom easy. Even when you think you’ve found the perfect candidates, they sometimes don’t succeed as you thought they would. Through pre-employment job simulations, recruiters can find out whether the seemingly perfect candidate will actually do well on the job. Job simulation tests present real-life work scenarios that assess how well a candidate would perform if on the job. Simulations engage candidates in environments that recreate [...]
Testing for Hard and Soft Skills
When you’re looking for candidates to fill a position, it’s easy to see their technical skills—it’s all over their resumes in the projects they’ve worked on, their qualifications and experience. Few people write words like “integrity” and “prioritizing” on their resumes and even if they do, those words tend to be taken as filler words that don’t mean anything. But they do mean a lot. In fact, these soft skills are crucial when it comes [...]
Workforce Magazine Suggests “Consider Outsourced Training”
The award-winning Workforce magazine published an article titled Consider Outsourced Training that highlights the benefits of having employees trained with specialized programs and instructors. Outsourcing training is a popular option for employers looking to reduce operating costs while increasing workplace expertise. -Nidhi Srivastava, Workforce Outsourced training is beneficial when your training partner stays current on industry trends, has expertise in their respective training fields, and maintains the resources to train your entire workforce quickly and [...]