Enhancing Road Safety and Performance in Trucking: The Power of Employee Testing and Preemployment Assessments
While driver training can improve skills, it’s essential to acknowledge that nearly 70% of overall job execution relies on human factor behaviors that can’t be effectively trained. The Costs of Trucking Accidents Every year, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) estimates that trucking accidents cost the industry more than $20 billion. Surprisingly, a significant […]
Mastering Effective Hiring: The Power of Employee Testing and Pre-Employment Assessments
Scheig’s SelectRight™ Hiring Solution: A Game Changer in Hiring Counting the Cost of Bad Hires Hiring the right talent is undeniably one of the most significant challenges faced by businesses today. Making a “bad” hire can prove to be an expensive mistake. Reports suggest that the actual cost of a poor hire can range from […]
Employee Turnover and Its Hidden Costs
The resources wasted on trying to transform individuals into something they are not through training are substantial. The Unpredictability of Ineffective Hiring In the pursuit of organizational improvement and increased productivity, one crucial factor often remains in the shadows: the impact of ineffective hiring. Have you ever hired an individual who later turned out to […]
Avoiding the Four Common Hiring Mistakes
To hire the right person for the job, the person who will be most likely able to do the job and do it well requires that companies look beyond the minimum qualification model. Performance Begins with Selection Hiring the right person for the job is a tough assignment. It is not only challenging to do; […]
New Pre-Employment Assessments Increase Probability of Hiring Successful Candidates. (Classic Post)
Minimum qualifications tell you who you can hire, but they do not tell you who you should hire. Unlocking the Potential of SelectRight™ Hiring Solutions When “Dolly,” the cloned sheep, was unveiled to the world, it brought to light the topic of duplication. Properly used, cloning could give us more proven good things by replication […]
BEHAVIORS THAT COUNT ON THE JOB
The primary reasons for termination typically stem from deficiencies in the 70% related to job behaviors. The Emphasis on Skills in Recruitment Recruiters typically get very excited when an applicant comes into the process with lots of experience and the skills required to do the job. Or with less job experience but who nevertheless scored […]
How To Hire The Best People The First Time
Hiring the best people whose job behaviors most closely match those of the known, job success profile will consistently yield top-performing, long-lasting employees content in their careers. Recruiters typically get very excited when an application comes across their desk from a candidate with lots of experience and the skills required to do the job. Well, […]
In Search of High-Performance Job Behaviors
Candidate “Testing” In All Its Forms Has Always Ever Really Been About Job Behaviors In their search for high-performance job behaviors, companies have used “tests” in some form or another for as long as companies have been hiring. Although the tests used may or may not have had anything to do with the applicant’s […]
When Ms. Right Turns Out All Wrong
Avoid hiring the wrong person by using objective interview tools that can help unveil the differences between interviewing behavior vs job behavior. The application looks good. The references all check out. The background check comes back clean. There are no gaps in her work history. She seems genuinely interested in the children during a walkthrough […]