How does personality play a role in competence?
Would you rather hire someone who is incredibly good at what they do, but difficult to work with, or someone with average skills but the right attitude? Your team's personality plays a large role in how they will interact with one another, how they'll treat their responsibilities, and how they'll take care of your clients. In the article Hire for Attitude, Mark Murphy states that in his research, "when new hires failed, 89% of the time [...]
Malcolm Pick on Hiring and Talent
Josiah Go featured our CEO, Malcolm Pick's advice on client retention rate, hiring decisions, and finding the right talent. Below are a few key notes from Q&A with Profiles Asia Pacific President Malcolm Pick on Finding The Right Talent. Many small businesses aren't making use of assessments. Pick recently asked a group of HR professionals and discovered 70 percent weren't using online testing, and a little under half weren't using any testing at all. HR professions have [...]
Profiles Asia Pacific Featured in Feedspot’s Top HR Blogs
We are proud to announce that we've made it to Feedspot's Top 200 HR Blogs list. These top HR blogs are specially curated for human resource and talent management experts. In order to make this curated list, each blog has to meet the following; Contribute thoughtful insights and analysis to the HR industry Have a loyal readership (thanks to everyone reading this!) Offer a unique voice and perspective in HR topics Publish regularly, at least [...]
How to Use Personality Tests to Assemble a Star Team
Each person is different, and personality tests and assessments were developed to get to the root of that difference. We use tools like skill tests to determine why people can handle some situations but not others, predict how different employees will react to crisis, and more. This post goes over how you can use personality tests to assemble star teams who work together seamlessly throughout your organization. Origin of personality assessments Personality tests, much like [...]
The Importance of Pausing
For career-driven individuals, life seems to always be on fast play. Each day consists of a routine of working from sun up until sun down. Professionals with this kind of lifestyle may run the danger of missing life itself, equating work with what life, once, was. Work, by concept, is good. In fact, it is one of the things man is made to do for it makes him productive. However, work becomes detrimental when done [...]