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Build Job Targets with confidence

Job targets enable confidence in job fit – the sense of feeling productive and satisfied in your work because your day-to-day tasks energize you.

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Hiring
5 min read

Why you should use job targeting

When I applied for a job at The Predictive Index (PI), I went through the same steps you’d expect for a job application process, at least initially.

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Best practices when gathering input on your Job Target

In the process of gathering stakeholder input for your collaborative Job Target? The following article explores what powers the collaborative target behind the scenes — the PI Job Assessment — and shares best practices to help you get the most from your experience. What is the Job Assessment? The PI Job Assessment (JA) helps users…

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Hiring
7 min read

How to predict job success

Hiring new employees can sometimes feel like a high-stakes game of chance. You screen a resume, conduct an interview, follow up on a few references… and hope for the best. But there are ways to better predict job success—and they’re not necessarily complicated. In addition to the resume, interview, and references you usually include as…

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People Management
3 min read

5 PI patterns that have potential to be sales rock stars

Before building an all-star sales team, these PI behavioral patterns will identify who your top-performing salespeople are. While nothing trumps a Job Assessment, or setting a Job Target, to determine the perfect fit for your sales organization, I am often asked by prospective and current clients which patterns we typically see in different sales positions. One…

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Austin Fossey
Hiring
5 min read

How to identify your hiring priorities

Are you overwhelmed with the number of job openings in your organization? Do you feel like you need to fill all the jobs, right now? If that’s the case, first, take a step back and breathe. Given the way 2020 has gone, being in a position to add to your headcount for 2021 (and beyond)…

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Job Assessment

PI Job Assessment Too often, you discover that the people you hired don’t seem to be the same people you interviewed. Hiring is a tricky game indeed. But there’s a better way to play that game. What is the PI Job AssessmentTM? Job descriptions may tell us a lot about tasks and skills, but they…

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Job Ad Optimizer

Job ads that fall flat are an all-too-common concern. They cost too many businesses time, money, and energy. PI Hire’s Job Ad Optimizer is designed to help you and the hiring team craft job descriptions that match the Job Target you create, and attract the candidate you are looking for – by using language that…

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Hiring
5 min read

Looking for a Human Resources Manager? Use these interview questions to nail the hire. 

Perhaps your behavioral target indicates this person needs to be good at initiating contact, documenting communication. They should also act with integrity and support others. Here are five questions you might ask to hone in on this target candidate.

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Hiring
4 min read

Looking for a Customer Success Representative? Start with these interview questions.

Let’s say your behavioral target indicates this person should be calm, understanding, personable – but also capable of troubleshooting complex situations. Here are five questions you might ask to hone in on the target candidate:

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Behavioral interview questions guide

This guide provides questions, based on Factors and Factor Combinations, that you can use to dig deeper into how a candidate reacts in different situations to understand if they would be a good fit for the job. Remember, you can also generate an interview guide in the software, which helps interviewers by suggesting questions automatically generated…

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Hiring
6 min read

How to hire a recruiter

Learn how to hire a great recruiter to keep your company growing. Includes job description template and suggested interview questions.

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Hiring
8 min read

Know your candidate: 3 hiring tips from a fresh recruiter

As a job seeker turned candidate recruiter, I’ve seen all sides of talent acquisition. Here are my three biggest tips for new recruiters.

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