Assessing Competencies
Why Competency Assessment is Important Competencies are the skills and personal characteristics that enable people to achieve superior performance. Competency-based assessment and [...]
Interview and Select Candidates for Interpersonal Effectiveness
People Skills = Interpersonal Effectiveness The ability to notice, interpret, and anticipate others’ concerns and feelings, and to communicate this awareness empathetically to [...]
Use Competency Interview Guides to Conduct Structured Event Interviews
The Premise Past behavior is the best predictor of future performance. People have unique and characteristic ways of dealing with work [...]
Six Steps to Conducting a Behavioral Event Interview
Regardless of how you view today’s economy, if your job involves acquiring talent for your organization, you know that interviewing, assessing, and [...]
Interviewing and Assessing “Strategic Thinking” Competence
What is a Strategic Thinking Competency? Definition: Analyzing an organization’s competitive position and developing a clear and compelling vision of what [...]
What if your employees controlled your recruiting process?
Whether they are for the purpose of recruiting, coaching or managing performance, competency models are intricate and complex processes to develop and [...]
Test for Competence or Intelligence?
The first competency model was developed in the early 1970’s by the eminent psychologist Dr. David McClelland and consultants from McBer and [...]
Better Hiring, Less Firing
Hiring employees is one of the most crucial decisions an organization or business owner will make. Compensation certainly is a large expenditure, [...]