While providing consulting services to the governments of the Middle East on how to build cities that are powerhouses of talent, we at HireLabs realized the true meaning of the saying ‘birds of a feather flock together’. The same logic holds true for talent. True talent usually has a hunger to learn and innovate, and when you create an environment where talent lives  and works in close proximity to each other, you are on your way to building a knowledge economy. Before we started our research, we made a claim: Talent attracts talent!

Our research noted how history points to Baghdad at the turn of the first millennium as a thriving knowledge economy. The next major knowledge economy was created when Venice and Florence took Europe from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance era. In modern times, England transitioned into the industrial age from an agricultural society. Read more…

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…

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…

The condensed model forms the basis for the HireLabs Management & Leadership Profile Instrument used in managerial and leadership assessments. The Model is based on the 7 broad categories of Management Competencies as recognized Read more…

The Competencies Model

An increasing amount of emphasis on improving leadership competencies is focused on the assessment of quality coaches and learner outcomes. The quality of learner outcomes, therefore, require peers with deep insight into developing the very competencies they expect to instill in their leaders.

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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…