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Hiring
7 min read

How to design an effective interview process

The interview process, in many organizations, is broken. Even the most successful organizations who pride themselves on process fail to answer key questions—What’s the best way to go about the interviewing process? How should you record the thoughts of each interviewer? How many people should be involved? Is it easier to just let interviews fall…

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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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Hiring
8 min read

21 pro tips for finding and hiring top talent

Hiring managers in every sector are finding it increasingly difficult to attract top talent to their organization. Why?

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Hiring
4 min read

5 reasons to use a cognitive ability test for hiring & employment

If you’ve ever hired a new employee, you know that success can be a game of chance. Get it right and everyone’s happy. Get it wrong and disaster can ensue.

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Hiring
5 min read

3 ways to improve your Glassdoor rating

With over 48 million users and 32 million published reviews, Glassdoor is currently the No. 2 site for job searches in the U.S. 

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Hiring
6 min read

Recruiting active vs. passive candidates

When I started looking for a job last year, it was the first time I’d done so in more than five years, and I was overwhelmed. Thinking about new routines, new commute, new people, new coffee machine, new set of work passwords. It was daunting. I’m what we at PI call a Controller pattern, a key…

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Hiring
5 min read

Can you be too smart for a job?

All jobs require some level of cognitive ability, and research has demonstrated time and time again that cognitive ability relates to higher job performance in all roles (although the relationship is stronger in more complex job roles). But is there an upper limit? Can you be too smart for a job?

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Hiring
4 min read

When their cognitive score doesn’t match their behavior

What do you do when you have a candidate with the “perfect” behavioral needs and drives for a position—you know they can handle the work, culturally it’s a match, they are driven and determines—but their overall cognitive score, their capacity to learn, adapt, and grasp new concepts in the workplace, is falling short. I have had…

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Hiring
3 min read

When to fire an employee: We hire for skills, but fire for something else

Think about this: When you interview a candidate for a position, a primary input in the decision-making process (the resume) is provided by the candidate. While the resume certainly gives you an overview of experience, education, and skills, it’s still information that’s curated by the candidate. This is equivalent to a used car salesperson handing…

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Hiring
2 min read

Let’s get smart about hiring

For too long hiring managers have relied on gut feel to assess candidates for a job. They’ve relied on what they believe to be tried and true methods for predicting a candidate’s success only to be met with mixed results. A resume is great but it only tells part of the story. Relying on factors…

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Hiring
3 min read

Why narcissists excel in job interviews

There’s an old consumer-protection saying that “if a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is.” For hiring managers I’d amend that adage slightly and say, “If a candidate seems too charming to be true, he probably is.” Don’t get me wrong—there’s nothing wrong with charm in business. But there’s also data suggesting…

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Hiring
7 min read

Understanding culture fit

Culture fit is an often-misunderstood concept. 

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Hiring
10 min read

What are validity studies?

Have you ever witnessed someone trying to tell a spooky ghost story, only to be silenced by someone matter-of-factly stating that they don’t believe in ghosts? This situation has always been a somewhat annoying one to me because, while I’m personally very skeptical of the existence of ghosts, I like to hear a good ghost…

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Hiring
6 min read

How to build more compelling job descriptions

If you’ve ever searched for a job, you know that not all job descriptions are well written. And if you’ve ever had to build a job description—well, let’s just say many of us would prefer to watch paint dry. But crafting a job listing doesn’t have to be a horrible experience. Here are 14 tips to…

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Hiring
6 min read

9 tools to help you build bulletproof job descriptions

You are staring at a cursor on a blank screen. Or, if you’re lucky, you have a template of some kind to work with. If you’re unlucky, you might be looking at a mess of a job description someone else tried to create—that you need to turn into a magic document that will not only…

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