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…

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…

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…

Steps to HCM success through Employee Assessments

In the first and second part of this exclusive 3 part series on aligning performance management systems with organizational development needs, we discussed how sharing best practices, accountability in objectives, and data mining, compliance, employee engagement, and management skills can increase the success co-relation between employee assessments and HCM implementation.

In the final part of The Bottom Line, I will discuss key Read more…

Steps to HCM success through Employee Assessments

In the first part of this exclusive 3 part series on aligning performance management systems with organizational development needs, we discussed how sharing best practices, accountability in objectives, and data mining can increase the success co-relation between employee assessments and HCM implementation.

In this second of 3 exclusive parts, I will touch upon the importance of -

Compliance in HCM implementation

Employee Engagement

Strengthen Management Skills Read more…

Implementing a successful HCM system involves quite a robust, and an in-depth analysis of organization-wide requirements. But that is just the beginning. Read more…