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The Real Business Value of Employee Personality Assessments

Research into the use of psychometric and personality assessments over the last four years have shown that top performing organisations place more value on assessment data for decisions that improve business performance than average or poor performing organisations. Top performing organisations use assessments not only as an incredibly valuable tool in recruitment and selection, but for employee development, workforce planning and succession planning.

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3 Steps to Upgrade the Role of HR in Enterprise 2.0

Over the last few years, social and mobile technologies have proven to be powerful tools for sourcing and recruiting talent. More recently, we’re beginning to see consumer tech--social, in particular--being leveraged in other HR functions. But while research shows these next generation tools have the potential to improve communication and collaboration across the enterprise, business leaders are left with one question: “Who takes ownership of these tools?”

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A Prevue Case Study: Reducing Turnover with Assessments

I wanted to share this recent case study from Prevue HR Systems, about an organisation in the US who had a turnover rate of 41.4%. Using Prevue Assessments, this organisation has reduced that to less than 20% within two years.

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Holding Back the Sea; Professional Bodies and Social Media

My company, Mindset or I personally are members of a number of professional bodies; the Recruitment and Consulting Services Association (RCSA), the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC), Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), and the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) to name a few.

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Social Media and Background Checks: Yes or No?

There have been some feisty twitter debates raging today around the ethics, legality and morality of the use of social media to conduct background checks on candidates. The debate is quite polarised.

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