FirstScreen™ propels Irish job board specialists IWantANewJob

Ireland based IWantANewJob goes live with FirstScreen™, the talent assessment platform from HireLabs. Commenting on the positioning, HireLabs VP Sales, Hassan Bin Rizwan said that

…FirstScreen™ not only fulfills the much demanded talent screening solution for the Irish market, but also strongly positions HireLabs to extensively service regional markets through it’s channel partners.

President and COO Hirelabs Inc., Saleem Qureshi, was of the opinion that

…proximity to regional organizations and their offshore entities in the region – especially the offshore financial markets – sits well with my vision of being one of the few dedicated talent service providers to the sector. Read more…

If you are a recruiter in San Francisco, then the only way that you can still afford to pay $3 a gallon these days to fill up your gas tank, is if you start increasing your placement rate. That’s easier said than done, because you have a growing talent pool (the unfortunately unemployed), and a slow-recovering job market, where other recruiters are fighting to fill the same position. At a time like this some recruiters become extremely creative, which helps them stand out from the crowd.

There are several ways to be creative, our research at HireLabs suggests that if you improve the quality of applicants that you send for the interview, then you increase the placement potential as well as attain a certain level of respect in the eyes of the hiring manager.

Since HireLabs is in  the business of creating customized assessments, we tried to see if the assessment industry could lend a hand to recruiters. We asked our research team to conduct a small experiment: Read more…

New data from ExecuNet Survey 2009 on C-class trends proves a distinct point – Executives do not spend enough time on the job to hit peak performance.

This is made worse by the fact that executives spend half of a year actively searching for jobs.

So the questions is not what competencies must executives possess to stay motivated – rather it is how well can executives understand the business.

Having asked that question, it shouldn’t be difficult to grasp the underlying factor that executives must speak finance. Add to that a strong leadership ability, and you’ve got a true superstar executive who can really begin to rake in greater benefits for the business while staying motivated.

It has, thus, come to pass, that given the new dynamics of a new economy, the best person to have on the helm will be the one with a strong financial background. After all, Read more…

If you are anything like most of us, you wouldn’t be able to help but be in absolute awe of the phenomena that is the CEO. Go on. Admit it!

But often it has been observed that most CEOs haven’t always been the performing types (must I post a link here to confirm the claim!?), and that’s because so few of them can get beyond the glamor of the title!

So many of them don’t even understand what is being expected of them, let alone measuring against some performance metrics. On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being impossible), how hard do you think a CEO’s job is? Answer: 10! But do you believe the job is simple to do? Absolutely Yes! Read more…

Evaluate a CEO: The HireLabs Talent Assessment Tool-Kit

A CEO stands for the corporate board. How it operates, and what strategies the board develop? The whole image of what is the corporate board-room reflects through the CEO.

Setting the tone for everything that the company eventually undertakes, a CEO’s decision will impact the business from all corners. Corporate strategic plans are mostly between a 3 to 5 years period. That’s a lifetime (in corporate life terms). A CEO’s evaluation should not wait for the end of that period. A regular CEO assessment will need to be conducted.

The regular assessments will increase and improve the board by ensuring across-the-board accountability. This will form a unique partnership between the proverbial shepherd and the herd.

Hirelabs recommends having a fiscal dimension in the CEO assessment. As detailed here, the CEO must Read more…

S.a.a.S (Software as a Service) is the evolution of the next generation web tools, which is catching the attention of everyone in the HR industry. With the promise of lower TCO (total cost of ownership) and a turnkey solution, giants such as MasterCard are shifting to HR-SaaS solution providers such as SuccessFactors for employee evaluation services.

The charm of low cost integration is fueling the fire of the SaaS revolution. Traditionally, on-premise applications have required additional IT infrastructure including servers, database and a logistical nightmare for a secure remote access, all of which would need to be approved by multiple review committees and executive approval to justify the investment cost. Read more…

Strategic market development at HireLabs takes another leap with an innovative partnership with one of industry’s leading names in human capital data analysis for talent management.

HireLabs has officially announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with the Albuquerque-based Group Harmonics Inc.

This strategic partnership could well define talent management strategies at organizations globally. Talent assessment systems, and the analytical data they need to measure a firm’s Read more…

HireLabs has confirmed it’s networking status for Zumbeel’s Are You Online? event being held on October 17th, 2009 at the Avari Towers.

The event is a part of a strategic move by innovative think-tanks within the recruitment community who hunger for, and wish to increase awareness of, the abundant opportunities presented by a web presence. As part of a strategic recruitment initiative, several other events have been planned for the year.

21st Century Recruitment
How companies are changing their recruitment process with the help of research and internet to induct the right and best talent.

One of the main highlights at Are You Online?, exclusively sponsored by Telenor Persona Weblounge, will be a talk on 21st Century Recruitment by Saleem Qureshi, President & COO at HireLabs Inc. The audience profile the event will play host to will comprise of senior executives and innovative marketing and creative representatives from the biggest multinationals in the region.

Event Agenda:
Start at 2:30pm
Close at : 7:30pm

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• Rethinking Recruiting Strategies – An evolution in recruiting, MyCareerFair.ca launched January, 2009 (newswire.ca)

In his interview with Jehan Ara on “In the Line of Wire” Saleem Qureshi, President & COO HireLabs Inc., talks about the need for employment assessment so that people are placed in the right professions, in the right departments and at the right level of competency.

Saleem and his company work mainly with large organizations to ensure that all employees and potential employees are assessed to determine that they are right for the jobs they are being placed in. I asked him if similar assessments could be used to determine which disciplines kids should select when entering university and what kind of professions they were suitable for.

Saleem answers this and many other questions in this episode of ITLoW.

What is HireLabs? According to Saleem, HireLabs is the leading innovator of pre-employment assessment services. Their goal is to streamline and simplify the HR decision-making process to maximize talent alignment while minimizing company costs. HireLabs works in collaboration with data collected from the US Department of Labor and Stanford University to create the next generation in employment assessments. Read more…

As part of the company’s global expansion plans by forming alliances and partnerships with b2b vendors of HR services & solutions, and to tap into strategic opportunities provided by the promise of an economic recovery, HireLabs has announced that it has started to provide it’s pre-employment assessments and workforce development solutions to customers in South Africa. This news comes hot on the heels of a European deal signed with a Value-Added-Partner focusing on customers in the Central, Northern, and Western Europe regions (More on this story as and when released) Read more…