We’ve heard for decades that most interview decisions are made within seconds. Someone meets you and pretty much sizes you up in those first few moments. I think that’s mostly correct, but every interviewee still has that time to change hearts and minds. Sure, you came in and immediately made a verbal gaffe or smelled like old lady feet, that …
There Is a 75% Chance of Selecting Better Talent if You Only Hire…
ME! No, I’m only joking. I’d be way higher than 75%! You all know I love data and some of the fun things we can pull out of studies about performance and selection. A 2014 study on world-class athletes found that the top-performing athletes had older siblings in 75% of the participants studied! So, want to hire better performers? Ask this question: …
It’s Super Hard to Write a Cool Job Posting!
Almost every solid TA pro and leader I know wants to have cool, hip, on fleek, whatever new saying the kids on Snap are saying, type job postings. What most organizations end up with is still the old written job description, KSAs, boring I just feel asleep same posting as they always have had. The main problem is you usually …
Are you working more, or less, during the Pandemic?
If someone was to ask me I felt that, on average, were people working more, or less, during the pandemic I think my gut feel would be less. Not that I don’t think most people want to work, it’s just so much got shut down and so many jobs went remote, it would seem natural that most people worked less. …
COVID Career Pivots – The One Thing You Need to Know!
On a daily basis, I get messages from folks who are ready to make a pivot in their career, and with so many folks losing their job because of COVID the amount looking to pivot seems to be increasing. Career pivots aren’t a new thing. On average people change jobs like 358 times during their career or something like that. …
The Single Biggest Factor in Finding Your Dream Job!
By Tim Sackett I’ve been given the opportunity to speak to a number of high school and college graduating seniors. The one common question from both groups, I get frequently, is “how can I get my dream job?” It’s a simple question, with about one million possible answers. Which makes it a tough question to answer in front of a …
What Is This Hire Supposed To Do?
I’m only talking to leaders today. We tend to fall into this rut. I have a position on my team. A person leaves. We need to fill that position. Before you fill your next position, as yourself this one question: How will this hire bring us closer to reaching our business objective? In fact, you might want to ask that …
Navigating The New 2020 W-4 Employee’s Withholding Certificate
With every new year comes some sort of changes or updates with employee payroll, and 2020 is no exception. On December 5, 2019, the IRS issued the final version of the 2020 Form W-4 Employee’s Withholding Certificate, designed to help employees withhold the correct amount of federal taxes throughout the year. I have taken look into the NEW W-4 form …
Navigating Paid Leave Laws
By Teresa Carper Navigating the various state Paid Leave Laws can be exhausting! If your company, like HRU, operates in multiple states then you know how difficult and time consuming it can be to stay on top of this ever growing trend. I have two white boards in my office and one of them is solely dedicated to paid leave …
Is Time or Money More Valuable?
You might have seen this in the news that Estonia has started experimenting with a new way to punish speeding drivers. Instead of making them pay a fine for speeding, they are giving them an option to ‘take a timeout’ instead for 45 minutes to an hour, right then and there. Which brings up the question: What is more valuable …