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Hiring for Talent: How Organizations Select Employees for Talent to Defeat the 80:20 Syndrome in Business Today

Free Web Conference: Using Advanced Technology to Predict Human Performance
This 30-minute live web conference explains how reliable assessment data has opened the door for the use of advanced statistical methods in the prediction of human behavior.

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What are Core Values? [ 21K.pdf ]
Conventional employee assessments and skills tests capture a person's current behavioral patterns, which can vary with job, age and situation. Instead, many managers are now turning to the deeper core values to predict future successful performance.

The Hiring Process is Broken [ 22K.pdf ]
Invest everything you can. Add them all together. The result is still a Vilfred Paretoism - 80% of the work is completed by 20% of the people. There appears to be no solution for this human productivity paradox.

Superior Tools, Superior Results. [ 22K.pdf ]
The goal is to fill every job with someone whose intrinsic values, beliefs and behaviors are a perfect fit to that particular job. Experience unfortunately demonstrates that almost no one can consistently accomplish this goal based on their own ability to assess candidates and their own understanding of the requirements for success in that job.

Case Study: Regional Office Defeats the 80:20 Syndrome. [ 21K.pdf ]
Steve's regional office is now rated in the top three for growth and already recognized as one of the top 15 in sales performance. Using the preexisting first year sales guidelines used by the best performing regional office, Steve's group now has 20 top performers.

What If Every One of Your Employees Was a Top Performer? [ 737K.pdf ]
What if you could know, for certain, that job candidates were top performers before you hired them? If you have ever hired employees, you know the "what ifs" are endless. Tidemark uses real technology and market proven research to equip your organization to consistently hire top performers. Download this informative brochure and learn how you can create a culture of top performers.
 

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Mining For Gold by Beth Patterson and Steve Lindsey
An immense amount of data is available within any organization, but often it is not being leveraged to identify potential areas in which companies could gain competitive advantage. There is gold in that data that has yet to be discovered. Effective analysis of HR data can give an organization that competitive edge.

On The Tech Horizon By William Kutik
Human Resource Executive's technology columnist sees shifts in the vendor landscape, but no lag in innovations designed to get more value from people in tough times.

Rice University's "How to Hire Handbook"
Hiring can be full of legal pitfalls. Rice University outlines the do's and don'ts in this concise handbook. It includes interview self-evaluations, job-description forms, sample affirmative-action forms, and more.