Experts - Performers

Just last week, a friend asked a question about the way I classify employees with respect to what they deliver to their organizations. So I decided to write a post about it. When thinking about the candidates organizations may be interested in hiring, I like to keep things simple and classify them into two categories. Experts or Performers. Yes I know what your immediate reaction will be Hassan, don’t make things so simple because they aren’t. Yes, I agree often they aren’t but trust me guys – at times they are that simple. I like to look at a potential hire with these two lenses because it makes my job easier and simplifies my hiring decision. Read more…

“The future of IT is changing in real time out of the recognition that SaaS is a
quicker and cheaper way to acquire software while consuming less internal
resources. At the same time, SaaS has proven to be more scalable, reliable
and functional as on-premise software. SaaS allows large companies to
leverage leading edge business applications immediately, without
complicated upgrade processes and the IT infrastructure demanded by
traditional software applications.

The birth of IT in most companies was due to the realization that there was
new technology that could be taken advantage of to improve business
processes and the broader competitive advantage. Today, IT organizations
are again being challenged to take advantage of new technology and apply it
to improve business processes. Leading edge IT organizations are realizing
that their role is shifting away from infrastructure management and
maintenance, toward more business process improvement demands. SaaS
has proven to be a powerful new business solution that allows IT to re-focus energy and resources to play a more crucial role within their company.” from a whitepaper by THINKstrategies. Read more…

The Human Capital Management 2009, a single-day forum spread over 3 comprehensive sessions, featured leading HR experts and thought leaders. Coming together under the banner of “Superior HR Strategies and Solutions for Challenging Economic Times”, the experts engaged the audience on strategic organizational topics of Human Read more…

How can employers measure the intangibles?

Performance metrics that measure the usual competencies is a good way to go about rating employee performance. On the other hand, employers are looking to find better ways of employee measurements so that better qualified (quality) candidates can join the workforce at the outset.

Collecting metrics that measure a holistic employee contribution to organizational success means having an assessment system that collects specific data that identifies, holistically, the isolated intangibles of employee contributions. The risks Read more…

During the hiring process, employee talent assessments will help in screening candidates by measuring their competence based on the following characteristics:

• Attitude – willingness to do the job that is assigned to them
• Aptitude – ability and capacity to be competent in their position
• Integrity – honesty and loyalty when you’re not there
• Intelligence – common sense and the level of academic skills required to perform their job
• Intensity – their ability to focus

The applicant pool that applies to jobs at your company will have unique backgrounds – unemployed, relocating, changing scopes, better prospects etc.

But you must be careful of the ones who are Read more…

Select the Best: A How to Approach

Behavioral interviews are the best tool to identify candidates with the ideal behavioral traits and characteristics that you have selected as necessary for job success. Additionally, certain behavioral questioning will tend to be situational instances. The best behavioral-based questioning, however, will not give away the behavior being verified. As you read the following Read more…

Avari Hotel & Towers has requested HireLabs Inc. to structure a leadership competencies instrument that includes a management skills module and a 360 feedback template.

Hirelabs has structured the assessment profile instrument based on Read more…