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This is a Podcast – 8.30 Minutes There are many myths surrounding cognitive ability testing – often referred to as a mental ability tests. What do these tests measure? In short, intelligence. According to Spearman (2005), intelligence is something that helps people to solve problems, when the elements can be apprehended by almost anyone. Most […]

This is a Podcast – 12.30 Minutes (You can download the referred academic paper from the link below)  Here at AssessAdvantage, we are often asked to explain why the Prevue Assessment, that measures General Mental Ability, Interest/Motivation and the Big Five personality traits, is one the best available measures of job fit to identify the […]

This is a Podcast – 8.45 Minutes Long Hiring new employees is no “walk in the park”. My grandmother taught me to always invest in quality up front to save waste and agony down the line. “Gut feel” hiring, or taking the easy road and relying on third parties to do the job for you […]

This is a Podcast – 6.5 minutes When it comes to hiring, most managers only use a CV and an interview to make the big call on who to throw an average of forty-five thousand dollars to! A bad hire cost about 2.5X an employee’s annual salary! CVs and interviews represent around 20% of hiring […]

This is a Podcast – 7 Minutes It’s a given, using past performance to predict future performance is the most critical measure in the hiring process. Committing to a new hire is a big deal. Whether you’re hiring hourly employees or corporate leaders, you’ve spent money and man hours to recruit, assess, and interview many (or most) of your […]

This is a Podcast – 5.30 Minutes What sales role today doesn’t require good written communication? Emails alone make up a tremendous amount of sales communication. And then there’s sales proposals. Although many organisations have these on template, most sales roles require their sales people to craft proposals for individual prospects (if only the ‘deal’ […]

This is a Podcast – 7 Minutes Last week, I had two interesting questions from clients, one asked what I thought were the main reasons employees leave a job? Here I address the three pillars of Job Engagement. The other question was what I see are the most common faults Hiring Managers make when recruiting […]

This is a Podcast – 6 Minutes Every week I talk to organisations who are struggling with their recruitment process (usually there isn’t one!), trying to avoid hiring their next personal grievance.  Or, others who are trying to manage their way around a couple of non-performers or extremely difficult employees (they originally hired the wrong […]

This is a Podcast – 30 minutes My special show guest today is Vincent Smith, the Director of Strategic Channels at OutMatch.com Vince has spent many years in the recruitment and assessment industries. He is the co-creator of the powerful online tool called ChequedReference™. This is an advanced pre-employment screening tool that automates candidate reference […]

This is a Podcast – 8 Minutes Here are the four suggested areas that are critical to address when planning to hire a new employee. Obviously the job role will dictate the weight given to each, or whether assessment is need in that area at all. Can they do it? This relates to specific job […]

This is a Podcast – 8 Minutes   Back in the early 90s two well respected Organisational Psychologist, Drs. David Bartram and Patricia Lindley, set out to construct a new psychometric assessment. They wanted to ensure their new tool would measure the key attributes and abilities that best identified “job-fit”. Obviously, their first question was, […]

This is a Podcast – 6 minutes According to the Aberdeen Group, the world’s leading B2B researchers and business data analysts, 2/3rds of the world’s top companies use pre-hiring assessments. But, not all assessment (employment tests, employment profiles) have the same purpose. In this podcast we briefly outline the top three. What they are, what […]

This is a Podcast Welcome to Episode 11 of The Tips For Hiring Show (33 minutes). Hosted by Rob McKay MA(Hons) Organisational Psychology Attracting, filtering and communicating with potential job candidates is a whole new world. Today’s millennials (18 to 35 year-olds) are applying and approaching job selection totally differently than those who are doing […]

This is a Podcast Welcome to Episode 10 of The Tips For Hiring Show (7 minutes). Hosted by Rob McKay MA(Hons) Organisational Psychology I am reading an interesting book by Pamela Meyer, “Liespotting, Proven Techniques to Detect Deception”. The key concept of this book is the psychological construct, the Truth Bias. A light went on […]

This is a Podcast Welcome to Episode 9 of The Tips For Hiring Show (6 minutes). Hosted by Rob McKay MA(Hons) Organisational Psychology How Will Your Potential Candidates REALLY Perform? Research on how many job applicants make false claims in their CVs varies from a low 4 to a high 6 in 10. Despite my crusade […]

This is a Podcast Welcome to Episode 8 (5.30 minutes) of The Tips For Hiring Show with Rob McKay MA(Hons) Organisational Psychology. Recently, I was a guest speaker at a NZ Sign-writers regional meeting. Sign-writers are not plentiful and when a vacancy occurs many of these small to medium sized businesses struggled to get suitable […]

This is a Podcast Welcome to Episode 7 (10 minutes) of The Tips For Hiring Show with Rob McKay MA(Hons) Organisational Psychology. I am constantly amazed at the number of managers that persist with a manual approach to recruitment when today’s technology (the Internet aligned with clever software) can really save huge money on the […]

This is a Podcast Welcome to Episode 6 (8 minutes) of The Tips For Hiring Show with Rob McKay MA(Hons) Organisational Psychology. In this week’s show we address the questions: Why use a psychological test within your selection process? Aren’t they expensive? Aren’t these type of testing only used for top executive appointments?  Don’t I […]

This is a Podcast Welcome to Episode 5 (10 minutes) of the Tips For Hiring Show with Rob McKay MA(Hons) Organisational Psychology Every day I see managers basing their decision to employ on what the candidate looks like – Manners and Expressiveness, plus, what they can do – Knowledge, Skills, Experience, and Education. This is […]

This is a Podcast Welcome to episode 4 (8 minutes) of the Tips For Hiring Show – Why the hiring Interview is a Poor Predictor of Future Job Performance In this episode we start the actual hiring process by casting our net – where to find applicants. From my experience, I see two main types […]