Time and Money Recruitment and selection of employees can be expensive, especially so when those employed do not stay. The direct costs involved include advertising vacancies, recruitment agencies, and possibly initial training. Then there is the cost of staff time for those involved - not only the time of those involved in writing advertisements, meeting…
Shaping Ideal Careers
Employee Recruitment, Selection & Assessment
Majority Of People Hired In Singapore Are Average Or Bad Performers
Hudson Singapore recently surveyed over 600 executives from various sectors in Singapore. One of the topics they covered in the survey was the quality and performance of employees hired. In Singapore, across all the sectors surveyed, more than 50% of hires are considered ‘average’ or ‘bad’. Here is a collection of graphs from the survey: Hiring…
Is the job interview a good selection method?
The job interview is the most common form of selection and one that most people are familiar with. Until recently, the interview has had bad press. Compared to other selection techniques it has been viewed as unscientific and highly prone to the effects of biases and prejudices held by interviewers. Some of the reasons why…