Posted on March 27, 2009 by oddateci
There are many different sorts of personality tests, word list choices (which is most like me or least like me), statement list choices, rate this statement as to how much it reflects who you are, picture tests asking you to interpret what you are seeing, lickert scale response tests, ipsative tests and a host of [...]
Filed under: Employment Testing | Tagged: assessment tools, ECI Behavioral Insight, Personality Testing, psychological testing in the hiring process, using personality tests | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 25, 2009 by oddateci
ECI has helped companies make a smooth transition after merger and acquision. Our studies have shown that the number one reason merger or acquisions fail is because the culture is never fully integrated. Company leaders often think that because they have introduced the cultural expectations to the new company members, that is sufficient for a [...]
Filed under: Business Management, Organizational Development, Talent Management | Tagged: acquisitions, Corporate Culture, cultural integration, merger, Organizational Fit | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 24, 2009 by oddateci
Applicants are trained to make good impressions in an interview. Go to any retail bookstore and you’ll find an entire section of resources dedicated to helping job seekers “sell themselves” to potential employers. Go to any college and you’ll find courses on how to effectively “ace” an interview. Good performance in an interview setting (including [...]
Filed under: ECI Behavioral Insight, Employment Testing, Personality Testing | Tagged: assessment tools, cultural fit, EEO compliance, fair hiring practices, Interview Questions, Interviewing, motivational fit, Objective Hiring, OFCCP, Organizational Fit, Structured Hiring Process | 3 Comments »
Posted on March 23, 2009 by oddateci
Consultants usually have their own jargon that they consistently use to describe various behaviors their clients demonstrate. Over the years, ECI has devised or adopted several of these terms. The interesting thing to me is that as we work with clients for the long term, many of them begin to speak in the same terminology. [...]
Filed under: Business Management | Tagged: Company Culture, Corporate Culture, ECI Behavioral Insight, Personality traits | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 19, 2009 by oddateci
We are working on several projects right now to help clients identify which metrics relate directly to success, which factors can predict whether an individual might have problems on-boarding successfully, and whether the demonstration of the factors described within competency models in fact are statistically related to higher performance. All of this work we find [...]
Filed under: Improving Performance, Organizational Development, Talent Management | Tagged: assessment of performance factors, behavioral statistics, correlation of competency to results, identifying high performance factors | 2 Comments »
Posted on March 16, 2009 by oddateci
Let’s add another positive point for the opportunities that arise when the economy is in a downturn. For those of you company owners/managers who have job openings, and this will happen as a result of normal turnover, people moving around to position themselves more favorably in a new role, and for a variety of other [...]
Filed under: Business | Tagged: fair hiring practices, hiring, Hiring criteria, selection criteria | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 5, 2009 by oddateci
I have been reading too much negative press lately about everything. While I don’t believe in putting my head in the sand about the issues, I still think that hope is one of the most powerful behaviors we can demonstrate. Whether it is the stock market, the job outlook, the business environment or financial needs, [...]
Filed under: Business | Tagged: positive attitude | Leave a Comment »
