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Candidate Completion Rates Don’t Matter!

In human resources and hiring, we all get tied up around the wrong metrics sometimes. Candidate completion rates, especially at the application and pre-employment testing phase is certainly one of...

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Candidate Sourcing from Reference Checking

Reference checking can be an important component in your recruiting and candidate sourcing process. This ChequedTV episode explains why you should do it and how to do it most effectively. Why Do it?...

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Social media clout as part of employee screening?

Great blog post today by Steve Boese exploring the question of whether one day (soon?) we will begin measuring a candidate’s online presence and influence as a component about the individual. It’s an...

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Brad Smart, Author of Topgrading

What percentage of your team are A players? If it’s not 60% or better, you’re in a position to make big improvements in your team’s performance. Brad Smart, who worked with Jack Welch at GE to develop...

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Employee Screening for Demons in High Achievers????

Interesting podcast at Harvard Business Review today discussing the potential pitfalls with high achievers. Clearly, when we hire, we are always looking for those people who have exhibited the...

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Reference Checking Redefined

You could be forgiven for snickering at that subject line: “Better Hires Through … Reference Checking.” It’s true. Legal worries and caller ID have done a number on the old phone-based method of...

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Screening for Culture Fit – Chequed.com’s ChequedTV

We all know, when conducting employee screening, how critical culture fit is. But do you know how to really screen and interview effectively for it? Maybe you do, but do you other hiring managers. In...

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Managing Candidate Expectations – Chequed.com’s ChequedTV

Managing the Candidate Experience in your employee screening process. Setting expectations is the key. Understand the Why Why are you different? Why does the rigorous process aid the candidate? How...

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Why Candidate Completion Rates Don’t Matter in Employee Selection

It’s pretty common for us to hear from hiring managers that a primary concern about implementing an online selection tool is that people will drop out.But if your application process leaves behind 20%...

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Think you have reference checking problems? Watch this video

There are dozens of reasons why companies don’t check references—none of them stack up against the tremendous value you get from a good reference check.   On top of that just compare it to the fate of...

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Can You Curb Employee Theft with Culture Fit?

Many of us don’t even think about using a company paper clip on a personal bill or throwing a work pen in our bag before heading home, but employee theft is a growing and expensive problem.  It’s not...

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Innovations in Talent Selection

In our continuing series on innovations in talent selection, our host George Ehinger will dissect the advances being made in predictive talent selection technology. This webinar will cover:  What’s...

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A Candidate Is Not Always a (Great) Candidate

“Your talent selection process is designed to screen out poor quality candidates.” While this may sound like an obvious statement, the reality is that many firms simplify and dumb down their candidate...

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Are Your Job Posts Sexy or Significant?

Generic job descriptions don’t attract top talent. But the trick isn’t just to jazz up your job descriptions, it’s to also make them job-relevant. So stop posting the same job descriptions you’ve had...

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A Better Hire in Less Time, Part 2: Predictability

Life is unpredictable, but that doesn’t mean that everything has to be arbitrary – especially not the hiring process. So, how does a company go about making a seemingly unpredictable process...

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Aspen Dental Adds Speed and Quality to the Hiring Process with Chequed.com

In 2010, Aspen Dental, one of the largest and fastest-­‐growing networks of dental care providers, selected Chequed.com’s Predictive Talent SelectionTM solutions to improve its hiring process. Using...

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Finding the Right Candidate Through a Proprietary Database

Finding candidates has never been easier. Between social media, employee referral programs and other web-based platforms, creating a massive applicant pool is a no-brainer. Finding the right talent,...

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Think You Don’t Have Time to Reference Check? – How to Ensure a Good Hire

You wouldn’t really hire someone without first checking their references would you?  It may sound like a silly question, but it’s a valid one. Due to its tedious nature, and lack of results, reference...

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Asurea Streamlines Hiring and Increases Sales Agent Productivity with Chequed

“With Chequed, we added the right assessment and improved out process to achieve a 188 percent increase in revenue per agent”  - Chris Reid, Asurea Director of Agency Sales As a leading insurance...

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How Automated Reference Checking Assists with the Assessment Process

Depending on the company, standard hiring processes are usually instated and, then, are left to get moldy like forgotten sandwiches in the lunchroom fridge. Companies and job requirements evolve;...

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