Can a Personality Test Help You Find a Job?
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- Steve Williamson, VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- May 14, 2018
A personality test can help you land a job. In my case, it created a job specifically for me where one didn't previously exist.
Human Resources Needs a Shake-up
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- Steve Williamson, VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- May 7, 2018
The human resources world is due for a shake-up. The hiring process and performance evaluation procedures we've long held to be sacrosanct are ebbing away and new operational models are emerging.
Do What You Love (And Get Paid For It)
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- Steve Williamson, VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- April 16, 2018
We all have heard the aphorism that if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. The more pragmatic advice tells us to identify what we love to do and figure out how to get paid for it. This is easier said than done, right? Maybe not.
Performance Reviews Must Die
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- Steve Williamson, VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- April 2, 2018
Employees despise them. Supervisors dread them. The antiquated and ineffective annual performance review needs to die.
Pursuing Ethical Truth
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- Steve Williamson, VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- March 26, 2018
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica have given us a painful example of how elusive truth can be and how easily it can be manipulated. The contrast between truth and fact becomes more stark with every exposed scandal that passes over our smart phone and computer screens.
Four Steps to Remove Bias in Hiring
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- Steve Williamson, VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- March 19, 2018
Biases exist throughout the employment lifecycle whether we are aware of it or not. We filter candidates for new positions through involuntary lenses of subconscious emotion, performance is viewed through a lens of skewed expectations, and we are promoted or fired under the influence of similar effects. Here are four steps to eliminate these unconscious biases from your hiring process.
Challenging Cognitive Biases in Hiring
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- Steve Williamson, VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- March 12, 2018
The use of objective data in hiring is growing. Psychometric assessments like the Core Values Index are revolutionizing the job market. With all this data now available, why are cognitive biases still prevalent in the hiring process? In this article, we discuss the twelve most common forms of bias in hiring and present ways to recognize and eliminate them.
The Hidden Money Pit of Bad Hires
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- Steve Williamson, VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- February 26, 2018
Hiring employees is expensive and time-consuming, taking staff away from more valuable work. It gets even more expensive when the new hire is the wrong person for the role. How does the smart organization use objective data to avoid the money pit of a bad hire?
What Every Employee Fears: Failure to Meet Expectations
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- Steve Williamson, VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- February 19, 2018
I always dreaded getting annual performance reviews, even though they usually went well. This one was different. "I gave you a ‘failure to meet expectations' score because you didn't achieve your objectives for the year," my boss told me. The problem was I had no idea what my objectives were.
The Value of Purpose
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- Steve Williamson, VP Digital Marketing and Content, eRep, Inc.
- Posted
- February 12, 2018
The three components of the Performance Fuel formula — clarity, purpose, and feedback — work together. Purpose is the feeling that what you do matters and will be appreciated. Unfortunately in many organizations today, the value of purpose in our work is often unappreciated.
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