Archive of 2011 October

Managing Internal Candidates: How do you prevent good employees from going bad when they don’t get the job?

Today, I’d like to take a look at how to manage internal candidates when they’ve been unsuccessful in their application for an advertised position within the organisation, and how to prevent them from becoming disengaged and a distraction to your business operations.

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Recruiting Internal Candidates: Is It a Case of Better the Devil You Know?

Enlightened managers recognise that to get the best people for a position they must consider all possible candidates, both internal to the company and external. Internal candidates, at first glance, can look like the ideal candidate, but commonly, they carry a lot of baggage...

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What do Hairdressing and Change Management Have in Common?

It was recently suggested to me that I am a hairdresser. Apparently as a change manager it is my role to come in at the end and make things look nice. Well there may be change managers out there who work that way, but it’s not me, and not the way that my Mindset colleagues work either.

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Sam Stosur used hers to win the US Open. What are you going to use yours to do?

As news reports poured in that Samantha Stosur had beaten US powerhouse and 27-time Grand Slam winner, Serena Williams, and won the first Grand Slam title by an Australian woman in 31 years, I was struck by how much her victory was (as with most sport) more a win of Mindset than physical ability.

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Candidates Paying for Personality Test Results? It Happens But It Shouldn’t!

As the Australian distributor of the Prevue Assessment System, Mindset not only recommends psychometric profiling and personality tests as a tool for our clients; we use it as an integral part of our sourcing and selection activities.

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