Your boring brand may not scare away all the top talent – just most of it
By Steve Messina Thoughts on how branding could help talent acquisition
Personality matters: What I learned as a high school teacher
Rachel was a star student. She was in my homeroom and my first period English class, so I saw her all morning and was responsible for reviewing her grades. This sweet girl had one best friend, but she didn’t really talk to anyone else. She was silent throughout every class unless called on to answer…
Are your hiring practices old school?
By Drew Fortin When it comes to human capital management – hiring especially – many businesses double down on the same old candidate selection tactics only to wonder why things don’t work out. And yet, if you ask them how long they typically spend looking at a resume and preparing for an interview, most of them…
3 ways to put people data to good use
Valuable people data is all around us—it’s up to us to put it to good use. It was about this time last year that I purchased a high tech fitness tracker. I was immediately awash in a steady stream of health data ranging from how many steps I had taken to calories burned to heart…
Let’s get this party started: Five tips for setting great goals in 2016
By Matt Poepsel, PhD
Is your candidate’s energy sustainable? Interview excitement vs. sustainable extroversion
By Max Yoder If you‘ve hired people in the past, you’ve probably heard this one before: it’s about the apparently gregarious, enthusiastic candidate who, after acing your hiring process, rarely perks up again like they did in those initial meetings. At Lesson.ly, we call this the Affected Perk Problem, or APP, and we see it all…
What do these people want from me? (and other burning management questions)
By Matt Poepsel, PhD We managers often face many challenges, and when working with individuals on our team, it’s not uncommon for us to become exasperated when we don’t get the results we were expecting. Frustrated, we wonder what the heck is going on, and we may even second-guess the skills or dedication of our staff…