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How We Expect To See What We Expect To See - Posted 2/12/10

10 Reasons Interviews Fail - Posted 14/10/10

A CV or BS - Thoughts and Tips on CV Evaluation - Posted 28/9/10

General Mental Ability - The Best Predictor of Future Job Performance - Posted 10/9/10

How to Construct Job Benchmarks - Posted 3/9/10

How One's Approach to Work Tasks Impacts on Job Performance - Posted 12/8/10

The 90 Day Law - There Are two Sides To a Coin - Posted 23/7/10

What You See Is Not Always What You Get - Posted 1/7/10

Yes, You Can Identify Bad Behaviour Before You Hire It - Posted 9/6/10

Employee Theft, Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Absenteeism - Identify It Before You Hire It - Posted 29/4/10

Checked Your Pulse Lately - Posted 14/4/10

Behaviour Vs Personality - The car looks great, but the engine is unreliable - Posted 31/3/10

The Job Description - Putting One Together is Chicken Feed - Posted 18/3/10

Employee Motivation - Posted 11/3/10

The Employment Interview - A very Poor Predictor of Job Performance - Posted 8/3/10

The 6 Attributes ALL Successful Employees Must Have - Posted 17/2/10

Want a Job? Enter the Countdown Supermarket Job Lottery! - Posted 27/1/10

How to Construct Employee Benchmarks to Hire the Best - Posted 13/1/10

The Benefits of Employee Profiling - More Scientific Proof! - Posted 15/12/09

Candidate Infatuation - Posted 3/11/09

7 Critical Measures to Cover off When Hiring New Staff - Posted 24/9/09

Measuring Financial Vs Non Financial Performance - A Case For the Latter - Posted 12/9/09

Best Interview Question - Posted 4/9/09

Norms, Is That a Bunch of Ozzie Blokes? - Posted 14/8/09

Pay Peanuts, Get Monkeys - Posted 3/8/09

One Vacancy, One Hundred Applications - Posted 15/7/09

Cognitive Ability Testing - Myths Debunked - Posted 29/5/09

Work Sample Testing - Some Thoughts and Ideas - Posted 21/5/09

Resume Overload? There is a Better Way - Posted 27/4/09

If You Sat an Employee Interview Exam, Would You Pass? - Posted April 7

How to Hear "Yes" More Often - Copy of Article in NZ Herald - Friday March 27

When Hiring, What are the Most Important Attributes? - Posted 27/3/09

Reference Checking - The Value Of Social Network Sites - Posted 10/3/09

Would You Buy A Car Without an Engine Check? - Posted 2/3/09

Why Traditional Interviews Are So Unreliable - Posted 27/2/09

Past Behaviour Reflects Future Behaviour - Posted 26/2/09

Like the One You're With - Psychology of Persuasion - Posted 18/1/09

Another Principle of Persuasion - Authority - Posted 17/12/08

The Psychology of Persuasion - The Power of Reciprocity - Posted 4/12/08

Voluntary Committment - A Powerful Influencer - Posted 14/11/08

The Value of 360feedback - To 360 or not to 360, That Is The Question - Posted 24/10/08

Technology is Killing Communication - Posted 10/10/08

The Big 5 - Animals and Personality - Posted 4/10/08

Big 5 by US States - An interesting article to acompany the above

Time is Money, We Always Underestimate the Cost of Our Personal Time - Posted 12/9/08

Sex Lies and Video Tapes - Posted 3/9/08

The Accuracy of Psychometric Tests - Posted 22/08/08

The Exit Interview - Posted 15/8/08

Why Leaders Fail - Was It Their Fault Or The Fault of the Hiring Panel? - Posted 31/7/08

Identifying Abnormal Behaviour Before You Hire - Posted 18/7/08

A Bullet Proof Hiring System for Franchisees - Posted 17/7/08

The Cafe, a Coffee and a Job Interview - A Dangerous Brew - Posted 9/7/08

Poor Customer Service - There's No Excuse for It - Posted 5/6/08

Two Strategies For Using Psychometric Test On Job Applicants - Posted 7/5/08

Employee Resumes - Worthwhile or Worthless? - Posted 14/5/08

Managing Employee Performance - How To Develop Your Own Stars - Posted 22/4/08

How To Select The Right Pre-Screening Assessment - Posted 16/4/08

Recession? What Recession! - Posted on 26/3/08

Your Personality, Lay 50% of the Blame on your Parents - Posted 19/3/08

7 Ways to Stop Hiring Turkeys - Posted 27/2/08

Psychometric Testing - A Right of Reply - Posted 22/2/08

How To Write A Job Description - It's The Law To Have One - Posted 30/1/08

Attitude, A Pre-requisite For Hiring Managers - Posted 20/12/07

Zero Tolerance For Poor Performance - Posted 30/11/07

Recruitment is About Being the Hunter, Not the Hunted - Posted 7/11/07

Self-awarness - It's What Makes A Good Leader - Posted 19/10/07

The Psychology Of Influence - Why People Say Yes - Posted 11/10/07

Competency Modelling: A common language for aligning HR processes - Posted 3/10/07

Dishonest Employee Will Ruin Your Business - Posted 5/9/07

Are Sales People Motivated By Money? - Posted 27/8/07

The Definitive Drucker - Posted 20/8/07

The Difference Between Behavioural and Personality Tests - Posted 17/8/07

Behaviour Verses Personality - Posted 17/8/07

Measuring Staff Performance - Financial Vs Non Financial - Posted 9/8/07

The Hiring Interview Is Not A Conversation! - Posted 3/8/07

Application Forms, It's The Way To Go - Posted 27/7/07

Defeat Is A Bitter Pill To Swallow - For Some! - Posted 10/7/07

The Cornerstones Of Job Performance - Posted 20/6/07

Talent Will Get You Noticed, True Grit Will Make You Famous - Posted 26/5/07

Survey Of Online Usage of Screening and Assessment Tools (US) - Posted 24/5/07

Who Are The Biggest Work Whingers? - Posted 15/5/07

To Find The Right Person, Screen Out Those Who Don't Fit First - Posted 1/5/07

Procrastination Kills Work Performance - Posted 3/4/07

Leaders V Managers, An Artists Perspective - Posted 23/2/07

Social Psychology Explains Why Interviews Are Poor Selection Tests - Posted 10/02/07

Can I Check Your Pulse? How's Your Water & Oil (About Climate Surveys) - Posted 14/11/06

Are You About To Hire, Or are You Harbouring, A Customer Killer? - Posted 6/11/06

The Case Of The Missing Case Of Wine - Posted 17/11/06

Competency Modelling, An interview with Dr Dave Bigby (developer of ASSESS)

Sales To The Max - Posted 06/11/06

Dishonest Employees Will Ruin Your Business - Posted 27/10/06

Managing Employee Performance - Posted 20/10/06

Take the Hassle Out Of Recruitment, Automate - Posted 10/10/06

Coaching The Coach - Managers As Coaches - Posted 6/3/06

Understanding Bad Attitude - Posted 28/8/06

Interview article with Dr Dave Bigby - Principal of Assess Systems ( Chinese Fortune 500 magazine)

Recruiting Better People starts with Happiness - Posted 14/8/06

The Seven Hidden Reasons Employees Leave. - Posted 31/7/06

Hiring Right Makes Good Sense

What are the Odd For Hiring Good Sales People?

How To Improve Communication In Management Groups

How To Motivate Problem Employees

Going Green

White Paper

Otimising the Sales Gene - Michael Goldman - Head Consultant at AssessSystems

Performance Distribution Assessment: A New Method for Measuring and Managing Performance -       Jeffrey S. Kane, Ph.D.                   

ASSESS Strategic Success Competency Modelling - Explains the benefits and procedures for creating competency models

Competency Management: The Link Between Talant Management and Optimum Business Results - A special reseach project on how competency models drive business productivity

Getting A Job - An A to Z for Employers and Employees (Human Rights Commission - A 52 page document

Presentations

Prevue

SalesMax

ASSESS

JobCLUES

Rob McKay is an 'expert author' for Ezine, one of the web's biggest online magazines. If you liked the above articles, you find many more at Ezine.