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The employee selection process is not given the time it deserves. It has been a long time (23 years to be precise) since a study has explored the best methods for selecting top-performing employees by amassing and re-analyzing data from hundreds of previous smaller studies.   In this most recent study exploring the validity of different selection methods, much of what we have always known in the employee...

Businesses in the US look to accelerate productivity. However, US productivity growth continues to be underwhelming, US employees are engaging in “silent quitting,” the job market remains challenging, and companies are willing to invest more in their talent/HR functions at the same time that they are looking for ways to reduce costs and improve efficiencies. During such complex and uncertain times, one...

On January 18 we kicked off our 2023 Compass webinar series with a look at leading with agility from the perspective of two former Green Berets and current successful entrepreneurs – Fran Racioppi and Jason McCarthy. Fran Racioppi is the Founder & CEO of FRSIX, a strategic global resourcing firm, an advisor on talent management and leadership for Analytix Solutions, a 900-person Boston-based firm,...

What should we be focusing on in leadership development? Think of all the good or, better yet, great leaders you have come across in your life. What trait did they share that made them memorable? What behaviors did they all engage in that made them impactful? If you are struggling to come up with an answer, you are not alone. Insights drawn from field research seeking to identify the capabilities that are...

It’s hard to believe another year has gone by! We traversed yet another landscape full of twists and turns and foggy terrains and we are about to turn the final page on our 2022 calendars. That simple act of turning a new page to a whole new year has always evoked in many of us a desire to reflect on what has been and anticipate on what will be. Whether we do it for us as individuals or do it for our...

Meetings … an integral part of our work life that we rarely give them a second thought. Yet, if we took a moment to reflect on our meeting experiences, when was the last time that: Ø  We rejoiced over receiving a calendar invite for a meeting? (At the rate at which we meet at work, an invite probably evokes a moan rather than a happy dance! In the United States, there are around 55 million meetings held...

During the past couple of years businesses have had to face unprecedented challenges and disruption. And while many were able to adjust and adapt to new circumstances, current surveys show that some challenges remain constant, and the top two still have to do with talent. Surveys consistently show that the #1 concern of CEOs is setting the right strategic direction for their companies amidst macrolevel...

In last month’s blog, we discussed the importance of starting your onboarding process before the New Hire crosses your threshold on Day 1 on the job. In this blog we highlight how intentional structured onboarding programs can serve as a value-add process that positively impacts new employee engagement and retention as well as decreases the new hire’s time to productivity. Let’s take a moment to...

Congratulations! You just made a new hire and you as well as everyone else on the team is pretty stoked about it! After a lengthy search and many rounds of interviews you are confident you made the right choice and, most importantly, your top pick candidate said Yes! to your offer. You all mark the date your new team member will be joining, and you all go on with business-as-usual until that day...

Quality of Hire would be the metric to focus on! Why? Because by planning for and measuring it, we can set the stage for all the other steps in the recruitment and selection process that precede the onboarding of our new hire. In measuring our recruitment and hiring efforts, we spend a lot of time focusing on efficiency and costs and rarely think about the metric that ultimately matters – i.e., how good...