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15 tips to motivate your people

15 tips to motivate your people Get to know your people as individuals. Get to know what interests them and motivates them. Provide them with increasingly more challenging opportunities, but watch for overload. Analyse their strengths and development areas. Ensure … More

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Cost savings for recruitment

Cost savings for recruitment How can we measure the cost savings of successful recruitment? When we fail to select the most effective person and they underperform the lost opportunity costs to the company are difficult to assess but poorly performing … More

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Surfing the Job – or ‘How to ride the waves of management’

Surfing the Job – or ‘How to ride the waves of management’ In the ‘new’ recession driven world, being able to ‘ride the waves of management’ is becoming more complex and difficult as these waves themselves take on an ever-changing … More

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Round Pegs – Round Holes

Round Pegs – Round Holes How many square pegs have you interviewed when what you really need is a round one? The McQuaig Job Survey™ enables you and your managers to produce an accurate job profile for a vacancy. The … More

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The benefits of using psychometric testing in small firms

The benefits of using psychometric testing in small firms Many people think psychometric testing only happens in FTSE 100 firms. In reality psychometric testing is simple, cost-effective and quick even for small businesses. Culture is everything in small businesses. It … More

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Qualifications, Experience, Temperament, which????

Qualifications, Experience, Temperament, which???? My eldest daughter has recently graduated from University. By her own admission she never regarded herself as a straight ‘A’ student but by sheer persistence, hard work and dedication she achieved the degree level she was … More

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Who benefits the most from Psychometric Testing; the employer or the employee?

Who benefits the most from Psychometric Testing; the employer or the employee? People often wonder who benefits most from psychometric testing, is it the employer or the employee? Wrong question. I believe the question should read “Who benefits from it?” … More

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“But who on earth will want to employ me?” …

“But who on earth will want to employ me?” … … was what I exclaimed to Emma, an undergraduate psychologist and fellow Mother, in the school car park after drop-off one morning shortly after the beginning of term. “Don’t worry,” … More

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Turning around underperforming teams – the Stuart Lancaster way

Turning around underperforming teams – the Stuart Lancaster way If you lead a Project or Sales team, you could do no better than to look at the methods, beliefs and philosophies of Stuart Lancaster, Head Coach of the England Rugby … More

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Assessing Candidates

Assessing Candidates Assessing candidate’s innate behaviour should be a must for a recruiter but a person’s learned behaviours or Character is also very important to ensure a good fit to a job. These behaviours come from our parents, our teachers, … More

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