Category Archives: Hiring

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Recruiting, Hiring, Promoting And Diversity Issues

What Is Diversity?What Is Diversity? 

It is very important to increase diversity in the workplace by improving your practices of recruiting, hiring and promoting.  Diversity is as much about diverse talent as it is about diversity and equality. It has many different forms and layers including differences in age, ethnic background, gender and race.  Diversity dimensions also include geographic location, income, parental status, marital status, and religious beliefs. All HR professionals have to make sure they know what barriers are in place to improve diversity and how they can respond to the challenge.  It isn’t difficult or hard to create a more diverse workplace, so long as the right HR practices are in place.

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Growing Your Workforce Using Internal Or Outside Sources?

Finding The Right PeopleFinding The Right People Leads To Growth 

If you want to grow your business, you will also generally have to grow your workforce.  Being successful is all down to finding the right people and putting them in the right role.  They all have to align with the goals and objectives of the organization.

No matter what stage of growth your business is in, you must focus on hiring top managers that are, in turn, able to get the right people for the jobs within their teams.

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The DiSC® Profile and Other Recruiting Tips

Improve Hiring Processes with The DiSC ProfileHiring the Right Person – Why It’s Important

It is incredibly important to hire the right people for the right job.  It doesn’t matter whether this is done through an external job advertisement or through internal promotion.

You have to have a really good people strategy in place, which includes a recruitment, selection and retention program.  Doing that properly is all about making sure that you understand the finer points of recruitment, hiring and promotion processes.

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Five Things You Need To Know To Improve Your Hiring Process

Now HiringWhy Is The Hiring Process So Important?

It is incredibly important to get your hiring process right.  First of all, the time you have spent on this process is very valuable and costly, so it is important to only do it when needed.  Doing it wrong means going through processes of retraining people, sorting out their mistakes, potentially going through legal procedures in order to relieve them of their position, only for it all to start again.  Get the hiring process right, however, and none of these problems will happen.  There are plenty of things you can do in order to do things appropriately, but the following five are probably the most important.

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Using The DiSC® Profile to Train and Develop New Hires

What Makes Them Vital To Human Resources and Managers?

Use DiSC Profiles to Hit the Hiring TargetThe DiSC Profile remains a very valuable tool when developing training and development programs for newly hired personnel. By using these assessments prior to hiring candidates, organizations are ahead of their competition in understanding how candidates might fit into their culture and how they can cultivate them in the post-hire process of training and development.

While it seems impractical to believe that every person you hire will possess every skill necessary to be successful in their prospective position, you can plan to help these people learn and utilize new skills to help them grow in the future and succeed.

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