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ARE WE OVER-ESTIMATING WORK EXPERIENCE WHEN DOING CANDIDATE ASSESSMENT?
Written by: Marija Biuk, psychologist. Very often during the selection process the best candidates are the ones who have more work experience, but is ...
PROFESSIONAL SELECTION: HOW TO SELECT THE BEST CANDIDATE?
Written by: Matej Fiškuš, psychologist. One of the employers, while expanding his business, decided to take over a café that was closed for months ...
How to write a letter of recommendation?
Written by: Ana Zlatar, psychologist. The person reading a letter of recommendation sometimes doesn’t have a lot of time to read it. They will u...
Interview – most commonly used employee selection method
Written by: Ana Zlatar, psychologist. Using traditional unstructured interview was called into question because if fails to predicts candidate’s...
Human resources, HR departments – a lot of names for the same thing
Written by: Ana Zlatar, psychologist. …before there were no human resources departments in work organizations, but „personnel departments“ w...
„Head hunting“ or finding staff
In one scene of the movie „To kill a mockingbird“ the character of Atticus Finch played by Gregory Peck turns to little Scott and says: If you lea...
What is the use in testing workers?
…most of the psychological tests in the professional selection are more reliable than for example, EEG results. And who doubts the accuracy of EEG t...
How to choose new people for your job?
Determining the necessary skills If you want to find the person suitable for the job, the first step is determining the competencies you require and d...
Questions for the selection interview
Some of the questions for the candidates that the employers can use in the selection interview are listed. They can be used in the same format for gen...
Why selection, why not (just) the interview?
In terms of prediction business success it has proved that a simple, unstructured (job) interview is approximately the same as shooting a target with ...
Work analysis
Work analysis is a systematized procedure of collecting and arranging data about a certain work. It is the first step in the process of forming the se...
List of costs of employing a wrong candidate or a worker leaving
In this text we will show a detailed list of items according to which any organization can make a detailed list of costs due to a bad choice of an emp...
Employee absenteeism
Absenteeism is every form when an employee is absent from the workplace regardless of duration or its reasons. The most common causes of absenteeism a...