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…

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 do talent assessment tools help in the selection process?

A competency-based assessment aims to better hiring decisions by moving it away from intuition-led process. Talent assessment tools aim for objectivity than being subjective in method. This process is continuous. And with the number of researchers and psychologists Read more…

A competency-based assessment aims to move hiring decisions away from the classic intuition-led process.

Candidates are not primarily assessed or rated based upon their aspirations, opinions, or similar. Rather, the underlying premise is that we can anticipate how a candidate will behave in a role in the future through an assessment of their behavior in the past.

As a recruiter, you are required to use psychometric testing as some of clients require you to do so.

Now, know the advantages that 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…