Archive for the ‘Interview Process’ Category

The Importance of Assessment Options

Why You Deserve a Customized Approach

Think back to the last time you or someone you know visited the doctor with an ache, pain or some kind of unusual symptom. What did the doctor do to determine the cause and treatment of the problem?

Just like doctors who administer several tests, make many observations and take typical vitals before determining a prognosis, we too must remember that there is not just one assessment that will work for every situation and reveal all the details you need to know. Instead, we need to be able to choose from a variety of assessments to find the best combination. Let’s face it. Not every development, selection or team-building situation is alike. You need different solutions for hiring an executive than you do a receptionist, and you need something different for leadership development than you do for sales development. Each specific situation deserves a customized approach to assessment solutions – one where you can choose which assessments to administer before determining a prognosis.

DISC Is Just the Beginning

How Multiple Assessments Add to Success

While DISC is one of the most common assessments used in the workplace, it does not reveal everything you need to know about a person. In fact, DISC only measures behavior style and communication tendencies, or “how” we act in our natural and adapted environments. It doesn’t tell us “why” we act in a certain way, what skills we have, or how well we are aware of our emotions. For almost every situation in training and development, knowing more than one facet of a person will help you provide better, more effective solutions.

Knowing everything about DISC is great, but why stop there? Knowing more about yourself and those around you will even further allow you to leverage your skills and harness your challenges to increase the success you and others bring to an organization. Just imagine how much it would help to know why someone you work with makes the decisions they do or what skills they have that could help you achieve your goals.

TTI – The Assessment Company

Shouldn’t you have the ability to choose from a variety of assessment options to help achieve your specific goals? TTI strongly believes in the very foundation of assessments - empowering you to better understand, appreciate and leverage your unique strengths to succeed in life both on and off the job. [ Read More ]

Invest in Your Talent

Controlling Turnover and Addressing Disengagement with a Complete System

Turnover alone may be costing you millions, but what about the employees you still have? Is their disengagement costing you even more?

Fortunately, turnover and disengagement stem from job fit, and you can reduce costs associated with both by using a complete hiring system. With a process that looks at hiring from the very beginning to the very end, you can consider the job, the talent, professional development and performance management. However, with reduced budgets and overwhelming responses to job ads, many companies are finding themselves skipping a system all together. Unfortunately, a move like that doesn’t come without a hefty cost, as doing nothing to ensure job fit will cost you more than implementing a complete hiring system to start controlling turnover and disengagement costs now.

With a solution for future turnover and disengagement costs, let’s turn our focus to the disengaged employees on your payroll now. Can you determine the underlying issue? It may be decreased morale, lack of direction, little job satisfaction or no motivation. Whatever the case, you need to start by using the same complete system. [Read More]

Job Seekers Shed New Light on Employee Retention Statistics

The job market is a place of constant change and understanding this vital market is important to effective recruitment and selection. It is in every company’s best interest to know what today’s job seekers are looking for, who they are and why they are looking for that next big move.
Are job seekers looking for long-term careers, or another job experience?
Are job seekers motivated by money or opportunity?
Do job seekers want a job quickly, or are they only looking for the right job?
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Steps to an Effective Executive Search and Selection Process

Finding the best fit for any organization is a challenge, especially when seeking an executive level team member. There are many factors to consider when seeking a high level candidate to join your organization. Below are some key steps to take when engaging in an executive level candidate search and selecting the right candidate:
1. Define [...]

Going Beyond Behaviors

Take behavioral interviewing to the next level by including questions geared toward the personal skills, intrinsic motivators and behavioral styles required for superior performance. With TTI’s complete assessment solution, you not only have the assessment tools to accurately measure the qualities required by the job, but we also provide behavioral interviewing questions aimed at uncovering evidence of past performance in areas specific to the job. This unique aspect will give you a more well-rounded view of each candidate’s past experiences so you can more accurately predict their future success.

Behavioral Interviewing and Job Assessments

How to Reach the Ultimate Goal
From the application review to the final offer, the entire selection process is really one extensive assessment of an individual’s potential. The importance of this process lies within its ultimate goal - to answer two, central questions:

Is the candidate right for the job?
Is the company and the [...]

Behavioral Interviewing Techniques

How to Ensure Your Techniques are Effective and Compliant
Since its introduction in the 1970s, behavioral interviewing has grown to be widely practiced in the selection process. Based on the assumption that the most accurate predictor of the future is the past, this technique relies on a reflection of specific situations to indicate an applicant’s [...]

Not All Jobs Are Alike

Why Behavioral Interviewing Must Be Job Related
One of the most important aspects of behavioral interviewing is keeping the questions job related. However, “job related” doesn’t mean that the question relates to just ANY job. For the behavioral interviewing technique to be effective, the questions must relate to specific areas required by the job [...]

Selecting Top Talent

Are You Using luck or logic?
We have all heard this story over and over again: “Our new hire had all the right experience, good references, and interviewed like a champ! But here it is, six weeks later, and he’s just not working out. We can’t ignore the fact that he’s simply wrong for [...]