Robo Advising HR

April 15, 2016/in Assessments, Blog, for Development, for Recruitment, Harrison Assessments/by Harrison Assessments

Robo Advising HR

Algorithms seem to be the hot topic and “Robo Advising” is one of the newest fads. Algorithms are used for predicting everything from the weather, sports, economic indicators, and financial data to who is the best person to date? Trying to predict behavior is nothing new, people in ancient times used oracles, fortune tellers and crystal balls. Today’s technology uses algorithms and the new age of “robo advising” has begun.

According to dictionary.com an Algorithm is: a set of rules for solving a problem in a finite number of steps, as for finding the greatest common divisor.

Even though Algorithm’s are sometimes used in place of a human being, hence the term “robo advisor”, they are ultimately just a very powerful tool that needs to be used with care by human beings in order to accurately predict successful outcomes.

So is there a Robo Advising HR that can choose the right person to hire?

Missing a Step in the Hiring Process

April 13, 2016/in Assessments, Blog, for Recruitment, Harrison Assessments/by Harrison Assessments

Missing a Step in the Hiring Process

You place an opening on a job board to find the professional employee. This is considered time and money well spent since the position you are filling takes skill and requires a substantial amount of training and investment.

But what do you do with the applicants? How do you know from the resume and their references that they are the right fit for your job? Many past employers are afraid of the legal ramifications of indicating that a person did not work out in the job. Or, they may have an incentive to have you take this bad hire off their hands so they may stretch the truth in order to push the exit.

One of the next steps is typically to choose the top 5-10 and then interview. However, you are “missing a step” in the process.
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A Good Weapon to Use in the War for Talent

April 12, 2016/in Assessments, Blog, for Recruitment, Harrison Assessments/by Harrison Assessments

A Good Weapon to Use in the War for Talent

Companies today are constantly in a war for talent. Identifying the right targets and having the ability to capture them is essential to winning. We are looking for the innovative leaders of tomorrow and the competition is stiff.

Gone are the days of high unemployment and applicants banging down your door just to get an application. Job boards and matching sites are furiously searching for qualified candidates to post their resumes. Companies are competing against each other to find and attract good candidates.

It is imperative for hiring managers and recruiters to fully understand what truly appeals to the candidates in order to attract and retain the best people.
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The Best Kept Secret in Talent Management!

April 7, 2016/in Assessments, Blog, for Development, for Recruitment, Harrison Assessments, Sheryl Dawson, Talent Analytics, Talent Management/by DCG

Harrison Assessments

Is improving engagement and retention a top priority in your organization? An analytics system that facilitates better hiring and promotion decisions at every level and enables leaders to more effectively onboard, coach and mentor their employees can dramatically impact your results. At the same time, preparing your talent to advance requires effective behavioral assessment. The best kept secret in talent management is that now one system can meet each of these crucial needs!
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Harrison’s Job Success Formula- JSF

April 6, 2016/in Assessments, Blog, for Recruitment, Harrison Assessments/by Harrison Assessments

Harrison’s Job Success Formula- JSF
Personality tests are increasingly popular due to the importance of understanding how an employee or job candidate will behave. Since poor performance usually relates to behavioral issues, measuring job behavior is essential.

However, personality tests are very general, usually measuring only 4-30 personality factors which are used for every job. In contrast, Harrison Assessments’ award winning suitability assessment is designed to measure engagement, motivation, interpersonal skills and retention factors related to specific jobs.

Ever wonder how Dan Harrison and the Harrison Assessments formulate the success factors for a specific job?

Suitability and Hiring Selection Success

March 28, 2016/in Assessments, Blog, for Recruitment, Harrison Assessments/by Harrison Assessments

Suitability and Hiring Selection Success

For most jobs, suitability/behavioral factors are about 50% of the reason people succeed or fail at a job. Therefore, effectively measuring suitability should be an essential part of any job fit or hiring assessment. The importance of assessing behavior during recruitment is evidenced by the fact that most organizations hire people for their eligibility and then try to develop their suitability. And in many cases, they fire them for their lack of suitability. Since behavior is fundamentally more difficult to change than eligibility, it is better to hire people who already have the right suitability for the job.

Suitability/behavioral factors are more difficult to assess because, unlike eligibility factors, there is no objective and verifiable information that is readily available. In addition, suitability factors are much more interrelated, and subtle balances between factors have significant implications for behavior. To make it even more challenging, applicants have a significant incentive to withhold or distort information that might hinder their job opportunity. This is highlighted by a recent study that determined that 80% of resumes contained lies.

The Best Job Suitability Assessments

March 23, 2016/in Assessments, Blog, for Recruitment, Harrison Assessments, Predict Job Fit/by Harrison Assessments

There are bunches of assessments available today. Finding and developing that diamond in the rough employee has become an art, and employers are trying to get all the help they can in choosing the best candidate.

Which assessment is best? There are few things to consider when making the choice. Does the assessment use the same set of factors for every job? If that is the case, it is very unlikely to effectively predict job success. In order to predict job success the assessment must be job-specific.

For example, many personality tests use the same set of personality factors for every job. The majority of these factors are likely to be irrelevant to job success for any one job. How can recruiters or line managers know how to use such information when it is not job specific? Using such assessments is not only counter-productive, it violates hiring ethics and, in many cases, legal guidelines.

PhD Org. Psych 24.7.365 – Harrison

March 21, 2016/in Assessments, Blog, for Development, for Recruitment, Harrison Assessments/by Harrison Assessments

Dr. Dan Harrison

PhD Org. Psych 24.7.365- Harrison

It’s been a long time since I took a Psych class. I know there is a lot of good stuff there that can help me lead my organization forward.

I wear a lot of hats and one of them is the HR one. People and people processes are typically on my mind. Making sure I have the best people in the positions that they are best suited for is a challenge.

But going back to school to learn more about psychology so I can figure out what is really going on inside an employee or a potential hire is not going to happen. Something else that is not going to happen is hiring a PhD to figure it out for me. That is a major expenditure that I cannot afford.

However, there are relatively low cost alternatives that can help me wear this hat well. Job Fit Assessments. The Harrison Assessment Talent Solution is like having a PhD Org. Psych with me 24/7/365.

Amazing Job Race

March 14, 2016/in Assessments, Blog, for Recruitment, Harrison Assessments/by Harrison Assessments

Amazing Job Race

Too bad you don’t have sixteen weeks of challenges, obstacle courses and road blocks to find the winning Amazing Job Team!

I will admit it. My guilty pleasure is watching “The Amazing Race.” It’s a long running TV show that starts typically with 12 two-person teams and follows them as they race around the world, trying to be the first to complete a set of challenges and get to the finish line winning 1 million dollars.

I happily watch the trials and tribulations of the teams as they jump through hoops, complete challenging projects under pressure and compete with each other to win position. I get an inside seat to the behaviors of people under stress attempting to complete tasks. It is interesting to me to watch how well someone completes a task that they enjoy doing… (the surfer lady who excels on all the water, heights and physical challenges…etc)

The Amazing Race is termed a “reality show.” The show is filled with leadership, teamwork, culture and communication lessons. As I watch and learn I wish that businesses in “reality” could put their possible team candidates through a race like this to figure out which candidates are the best.

Behavioral Assessments Need to Be Job Specific

March 6, 2016/in Assessments, Blog, for Development, for Recruitment, Harrison Assessments/by Harrison Assessments

Why behavioral assessments need to be job specific

Most behavioral assessments are not job specific and only describe the individual’s personality. However, this is not a fair or effective way to predict job fit. Job specific assessments are more accurate for the organization and more fair to candidates. They identify and develop those who are most likely to succeed in a particular job for a particular company.
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