The cliché “Hiring the right person for the right job” continues to be loosely used by the HR industry. In order for HR to recruit “mister/miss right”, HR would need to put emphasis of conducting a job analysis, which will help HR in understanding the current and future situations that impact the position. Unfortunately, this seldom happens.

Once HR understands the situations that surround a position, they will be able to reduce the risk of a wrong hire, which subsequently increases the chances of a right hire. At HireLabs, we call this Situation-based Hiring (given that there is no violation of EEOC).

Let us look at an example of situation-based hiring:

A leading airline wants to start a low-fare program, and needs to hire a cabin crew.

The first step would be to conduct a job analysis keeping in mind the situations that the new cabin crew will encounter. Some of these situations include:

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As we researched along the year, our team came up with some important debatable topics on which some expert opinions were a requisite. The discussion was posted on 6 Social Networking sites and the responses we had were amazing.

The topic stated “Which of the two holds more importance in Recruitment? Skills or Behavior?” LinkedIn alone provided us with more than 300 comments on the topic. Facebook and twitter generated some heavy traffic with interests.

As a result of such an enthusiastic participation by Industry experts in the discussion, we decided not to waste away such valuable comments and convert them into a featured video on our global platform. 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…

Economy has definitely affected the use and implementation of employment background checks. In fact, it has driven some interesting trends.
Let’s start with the obvious. Today, there are more people competing for fewer jobs. While hiring managers have Read more…