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By Yasmine Mustafa The Importance of Workplace Safety for Hiring and Retention
Unsafe work environments cause current employees to seek employment elsewhere and can also cause candidates to move on before they even receive an offer. This blog entry discusses how employers can address workplace safety to avoid these unwanted consequences.
Tips for Creating a Paid Time Off (PTO) Program for Your New Business
When you open a business, you need to think about the benefits for new employees. A Paid Time Off (PTO) program is a recommended benefit, but there are many nuances that should be taken into consideration. HR Avatar has plenty of tips to help you get started.
Does Your Small Business Track Time as a Growth Management Strategy?
Time is a limited resource and needs to be carefully allocated in the daily operations of small businesses. Keeping track of time is one of the most effective ways to kickstart business growth by streamlining operations and improving efficiencies.
Making the Hiring and Onboarding Process for Interns Easier
Hiring and onboarding interns doesn't have to be difficult. Plan ahead by creating personalized goals, having transparent onboarding processes and timelines, and using PDFs with e-signatures for contracts to find talented individuals quickly and efficiently.
How Businesses Can Avoid The Perils of the Great Resignation
Losing your best employees due to the Great Resignation? Here's what you can do about it.
By Matt Santos Pre-employment Assessments: 5 Reasons to Use Them
Pre-employment assessments offer an incredibly high return on investment when you consider the consequences of a bad hire.
For Business Owners: Hiring External Workers to Meet Your Sales and Marketing Goals
Here's what business owners need to know about hiring sales and marketing reps to achieve their expansion-related goals.
By Cassandra Stiltz Multi-Rater Feedback: How to use it? What are the benefits?
Multi-rater feedback is a beneficial and easy to use option to help employers obtain meaningful feedback of employees from their peers, managers, and subordinates.
Tips to Attract Appropriate Candidates to Your Company
Finding suitable job candidates can be challenging. Here are strategies to consider to help you attract appropriate candidates for your company.
By Maria Cucalon Selecting Low-Level Service Employees
HR Avatar is developing a new assessment targeted at low-level service staff. This assessment is designed to discover your future employees' personalities, cognitive attributes and past performance and tenure.
Should You Discuss Benefits During Interviews?
Job applicants look forward to knowing the salary attached to the position for which they are interviewing. Knowing the benefits included in a job offer is just as important as how much they'll get paid.
What Job Seekers Need to Know about Pre-employment Testing
Learning that you have to complete pre-employment testing can really send your anxiety through the roof, but you don't need to panic. Many companies rely on a variety of assessments to ensure they make the right hiring choices.
By Steve Henson How can assessments help you hire better Administrative Assistants?
Administrative Assistants are crucial to a company's success. They must be broadly skilled in a wide variety of tasks, and personnel with many skill sets are highly sought after. How can assessments help you hire better Administrative Assistants?
By Mike Russiello Remote Test Proctoring - Just When You Need it Most
New technologies with remote test proctoring has made Internet testing more secure than ever giving employers increased peace of mind.
By Mike Russiello Follow the Basics when you Rehire
The economy is starting to return to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic, and perhaps you’re ready to scale your workforce back up. What's the best way to go about it?
By Mike Russiello Does sounding confident indicate higher performance potential?
Statistics indicate that self-confidence can predict future performance. HR Avatar assessments include voice analysis, which may be a better way to measure confidence, but more research is needed.
By Mike Russiello Should you test your applicants in a tight labor market?
Employment testing in a tight labor market has pros and cons, and using assessments that are too long or are clearly not job-related can have severe consequences.
By Mike Russiello Why do employers hate to give feedback to applicants?
Candidate feedback reports are one facet of a positive candidate experience. Why do employers withhold the results of their hiring decision-making process from applicants and can something be done about it?
By Mike Russiello Why do recruiters hate pre-employment assessments?
Job recruiters tend to have a resistance toward employment assessments. The testing industry can addresses this by creating effective job-specific tests that provide meaningful feedback.
By Mike Russiello Why is it so hard to vertically integrate employment testing?
While great strides have been made to vertically integrate across HR and particularly recruitment functions, pre-employment testing has remained mostly outside the integrated ecosystem.
By Mike Russiello What would Susan B. Anthony have to say about pre-employment testing?
Susan B. Anthony might view any selection tool that increases objectivity as a major step forward. She might view work samples, reference checks, background checks, and pre-employment testing as equalizers in the fight against discrimination.